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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We found this wildlife hole on our way back from our walk. What could have made it? Was it a badger? A marten? An otter? I sees who it is. Though actually it could be one of the other creatures that made it and Lucky is just using it.
Storm has abated today. R and I walked over to Drimsynie. The plan had been to find a flight of stairs to walk up and down and also to go on to the high path to see how rough under foot it is. We found some stairs, unfortunately neither were ideal for my purposes because […]
Foul weather today. Here a load of precipitation turned into very wet snow which then semi-melted into a layer of slippery mush on the drive. I was back confined to barracks because of the risk of falling with my foot and R had to feed the creatures (at least the foot part is my story […]
Fortunately not the real thing, but a catnip mouse Saphy left in the lounge a few weeks ago. Lucky has never shown the least bit of interest in it, or any other toy apart from pieces of string (and R’s trousers, and human hands), but this morning he suddenly saw it and went for it […]
It’s been freezing cold white frost for the last few days. The back garden has never even defrosted when the sun hit it. Amber went into hiding while I was changing R’s sheets. Apart from that she has found a new place right next to the radiator. Then this afternoon right after R and I […]
As will be apparent from other posts, I am a big fan of both natural (i.e not ultra-processed) and locally produced/seasonal food. I’m trying to wean myself off things we can’t grow in UK, or more exactly, I am trying to buy the things we can grow in this country in the proper season when […]
Walked to Inverlounin House this morning. This is as far as you can get along the “coast road” – Fitbit says 4.71 miles return to Donich Lodge, but Google Earth says 4.2 miles (like it or not I suspect the Google reading is correct). On the way we saw a nice heron taking off as […]
Today was the first snow on Bheula (717m); this is about an average date for its first appearance, and by the sound of it we have a cold week to come. My estimate is that the snowline is at about 500m today, so a long way from affecting us down at loch level. By way […]
Today I walked to Rock Cottage on the Inverlounin Road (and back obviously). This is about 3.5m in total. The cottage itself is owned by a nice couple from London who we used to know slightly. There is a fantastic badger sett in their garden, and R and I (well R really) set cameras up […]
For November this is very nice. We walked round by the Inverlounin Road today and this was the view from the seafront. I must have a hundred pictures of that view, but it is not one you ever get tired of.
