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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I went on a little trip to Helensburgh today. The weather was really lovely and Helensburgh was looking very fetching. The thing about British holiday towns is they look great when the weather is fine… But are surpassingly awful as soon as it isn’t (and it very often isn’t). The nastiest day I remember was […]
Cobwebs all over the garden this morning – you can only really see them when they are wet with dew. Rather like the cobwebs in the garden of my parents’ old house in Mossdale the morning of R and my wedding day.
R went to London for a few days to speak at a conference, and got the chance to go on the new Elizabeth Line. Apparently it was very shiny and impressive – perhaps I will get a chance later this year as R and I have a week’s holiday in London booked in September. It […]
Here is Saphy with Amber’s two clones, Casper and Bumble (ABC for Amber, Bumble and Casper). Saphy loves jumping on things and then rolling around chasing her tail until she inevitably falls off. She is not very well co-ordinated and I sometimes suspect she may have a mild case of “wobbly cat syndrome” – but […]
R has started to take an interest in cookery of all things! He doesn’t want to learn from me and gets all his recipes from the Internet. So far he has been pretty successful – although he won’t take a telling as far as the proper cooking of potatoes is concerned (I like my potatoes […]
Now we are into summer, the community garden is looking very nice. The river walk down the side of the Goil River is also very attractive.
Here is our big black pussy cat Amber, sitting on R’s metal filing cabinet. Amber is the softest cat I have ever known. She is scared of about everything, and particularly doesn’t like sudden movements, loud noises and my crocs which make a squeaky noise on our wooden floors. She loves being tickled, but only […]
There are some great wildflowers down around the pond. For some reason although they grow around there spontaneously, my efforts at planting them from seed in other areas never seem to take. Apparently they are easily discouraged by grasses which are more robust plants, and I must admit that I have never cleared the ground […]
The tourists are obviously starting to arrive for this year because R and I met six people (a whole six!) on our morning walk up the hill today. All of them had dogs with them. I’d love to have a dog but R won’t have it (and he is probably right) because of the two […]
We walked out past the Shore House along the beach this morning – R says we have been this way before but if we have I don’t remember it. It was a bit slippy but very beautiful. There are a lot of boats moored and the picture doesn’t quite do justice to it. We went […]
