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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While we were away I am afraid both R and I were unfaithful to Tora and Schrodi by petting another cat. This was ‘Paws’ who lives in Mossdale Post Office. He is a polydactyl cat – which means he lives up to his name as both his front paws have two extra toes, making his […]
We visited my parents this weekend. As I think I mentioned before they live near Loch Ken in Galloway which is another really beautiful part of the country. It was particularly lovely this weekend because the weather was superb the whole time: bitterly cold but clear and sunny. In fact they have had more snow […]
This was one of the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen.
R and I went to Dumbarton today to get some shopping and pick up J who is looking after our cats for the weekend while we go to see my parents. It was a lovely sunny day and I don’t think I have ever seen ‘The Rest’ looking quite so spectacular. As ever I took […]
There is something about new freshly washed sheets that cats love. Yesterday I changed our bed – and they were both on it within ten minutes and made royal pains of themselves all night. Today I prepared a bed for J who is coming to look after them this weekend. I turned my back for […]
Beautiful sunset here tonight with a few clouds just catching the last rays of the sun.
Bitterly cold today, particularly down by the Loch with a biting wind from the north. There’s also plenty of snow still on the ground which is annoying the two sheep (which are still in our garden). But I noticed the first spring flowers today so I suppose it must be on its way eventually.
While we were out walking on Sunday we left our time lapse camera running. I wanted to do a full dawn to dusk originally, but the morning turned out to be a bit boring – mainly because the weather was too nice with no moving clouds to speak of. So I cut that bit out […]
There is a small ivy covered wall in the back garden here which is all that is left of the original lodge house which stood on this site and burned down in the 1970s. In the absence of being able to get at much grass through the snow, our resident escapees spent several hours eating […]
R and I did the Tom a Chuilg walk today. It was interesting to see that although the snow has mostly gone at ‘Loch Level’, as soon as you walk up out of the valley it is still pretty thick on the ground. Once we got up on to the foothills around Beinn Donich and […]
