When COVID hit in early 2020, B.C.-born folk and country artist Sarah Jane Scouten had recently moved to rural Scotland with her husband.
With tours cancelled, days stretched endlessly, punctuated only by the steady unfolding of Scottish springtime, leaf by leaf, petal by petal. The flora of Dumfries and Galloway was a pageant of scent and colour, altogether new but still strangely familiar to someone raised on the west coast.
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