The loch shows an infinite variety of faces as the light hits it on different days.
Lucky used to be a stray girl but has now found her new identity as a Donich Lodge boy (the vet discovered he was male when we took “her” to be spayed). He would ask you to respect his new pronouns.
The high mountain pass over the Rest and be Thankful is the main route out of the village. Here it is in winter.
Spring sky over the mountain tops.
Sunset from our front door step.
A misty moon over the mountains as darkness falls.
View over towards the loch from near the summit of Cnoc Coinnich.
A rainbow appears in a clear interval between showers.
Lochgoilhead in the distance on a clear spring morning.
As the year turns, the mountains are white on most days.
Looking across the loch from the village, clouds form a band across the hills.
Tora and Schrodi our snow Bengal brothers used to live here. RIP both of you
A dragonfly pauses for a rest by the side of our pond.
The weather here can be appalling. Here gales and torrential rain have blocked one of the village’s few roads.
The colours on the mountains fade to muted browns as autumn approaches.
The Donich Water in one of its kinder moods as it runs through our garden.
One of a myriad insects pollinating our heather.
A group of wild haggis have made a den down by the river.
Our new Highland Tiger Saphy prowling her territory. She is a demon for the wildlife with her specialized prey item being shrews. She is not adverse to mice, voles or birds however.
This is Amber aka as Bramble. She is big, black, rather podgy and a bit of a scaredy cat. We had her cloned shortly after she arrived.
Although we don’t get much snow at loch level, the higher mountains are covered for five months or so of the year
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A while ago R and I bought a Netatmo weather station. At the moment we have three modules – an indoors one (temperature, humidity, noise level, CO2), an outdoors one (Current temperature, max temperature in last day, min temperature in last day, humidity) and a rain gauge (rain in last hour, rain in last 24 […]
Today R was at a meeting in Glasgow so I took the opportunity to hitch a lift with him and meet up with J. It actually feels very weird being in a big city now – I’m so unused to large groups of people, noise, traffic and pollution that it is all a bit disconcerting. […]
There is something about cats and clean laundry. Yesterday I stripped the beds, washed the sheets and piled them on the bed ready to be ironed. I then went to have a break and a cup of coffee. Fifteen minutes later on my return Schrodi had found the pile of sheets and clothes and settled […]
It needs to be seen to be believed, but on 28th April we are back to winter here in Lochgoilhead. On Sunday R and I had yet another go at Beinn Bheula only to give up before really getting on to the mountain proper because the weather had turned into a foul combination of rain, […]
I was just getting ready to go out this morning when I glanced out of the kitchen window. There was a large pine marten sitting on the bird table eating peanuts. On the rare occasions I have seen him in the daytime before it has only been for a short time as the cats always […]
It was the open day at the Woodlands across the loch today, and in spite of warnings of rain today, in fact it turned out quite fine. I made a chocolate cake and some biscuits in the shape of red squirrels, both of which seemed to go down quite well. I took a few Surfaces […]
My mum who lives near Dumfries reported that the cuckoo had arrived with her a few days ago. That is about one hundred miles south of us, so I was not surprised to hear them here today. All afternoon I was working in the garden with the cuckoo calling loudly in the background. I learned […]
I have one huge Tech problem – I have a real addiction to upgrading my kit, including to pre-production ‘preview’ versions. Last year R told me not to upgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 preview – I went ahead anyway and had an ‘interesting’ few months dealing with teething troubles. I said I would never do […]
After my post yesterday about people putting their backs to the wheel, R and I had a busy day today as the time had come to deconstruct the huge greenhouse in the back garden. This is going to be erected on the Community Hub site and will hopefully be used to grow some food for […]
R and I went to the village hall this morning for a meeting about the new Community Hub which is (hopefully) going to be put up on the old curling field near the bridge. This land was kindly donated for a community project – and looks as though it will be put to good use. […]
