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 to Glasgow to do some shopping yesterday. Specifically I bought some new trainers because the ones I have (good and faithful old friends that they are), need to be retired. Due to my foot problem, the only shoes I have worn in the last year are one specific pair of trainers and some […]
Saphy decided to make a bed in the stationery cupboard. She sat quite still on the envelopes.
The weather has been a bit better the last few days and R and I went for a walk through the Community Garden and back to the road along the riverside. This path is about as close as flat and smooth as you get around here and is better for my foot than the one […]
In my on-going campaign against processed food, this was our main meal today. Cut two large peppers in half, drizzle with olive oil and cook in oven for 15 minutes or so. Fry an onion with some pine kernels, then add a tin of red kidney beans, olives and chilis to your taste. Sprinkle thickly […]
R has some “shelves” in his office – only they are not for books. This is what they are for. Interestingly, after a brief flirtation with the cat tree in the lounge, Lucky stopped using it and has once again returned solely to ground level. His favourite place is in a corner of the lounge […]
Two very enterprising young men from the village came over yesterday and in one (very long) day, completely cleared our garden. Unfortunately, I forgot to take any “before” pictures – but at the front the docks and bracken were at near shoulder height, and the back garden was a near impenetrable wilderness. Basically the whole […]
I have given up on my resistance to Microsoft bit by bit moving me into their cloud (by amongst other things, insidiously storing my data in One Drive). I noticed the other day that my Windows desktop files were all of a sudden on One Drive. Now I am pretty sure that this didn’t happen […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never been at all a fan of processed food in general, and specifically ultra processed food. While I had the bad foot though, I was not really capable of standing up in the kitchen for long periods of time, so I had to take some short cuts. I didn’t buy […]
There were bees all over this bramble bush during a brief sunny period on our walk. I’m glad to see them doing so well here as they are struggling in other parts of the country.
Today I walked all the way round the Inverlounin loop. We went up to the cow field and through the two gates. When we got beyond them on to the hill proper, the path was very rough (a legacy of the heavy rains in October). I’d not really intended to walk the whole loop today […]
