It is a storied place. Witches, covenanters, hidden treasure. All are associated with the pool. And the stories continue. To celebrate our cautious emergence into the light as Covid restrictions ease, 180 inhabitants from the local community were invited to have their photograph taken by photographer Alicia Bruce, images that now form a new exhibition on show outside the Carsphairn Heritage Centre and at the Green Well of Scotland itself. One of those photographed by Bruce in May this year was the artist Bill Holmes. “For each of the portraits I asked people to choose where they wished to stand,” the photographer told The Herald Magazine. “Bill asked me to include the Cairnsmore of Carsphairn as he had restored the drystane dyke which reaches the hill’s summit.”