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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These are retrospective posts because when I arrived in Walsingham the utility I use to move my photos from my phone to our network went nuts and tried to back over 2000 photos up over a non-stellar Internet link so I had to turn it off. Arrived in Little Walsingham this afternoon after an interesting […]
I’m off to Little Walsingham in Norfolk tomorrow with my friend J. His Mum died in April and we are going down for her memorial service and also to “House Doctor” the house there so it can be sold. It is a lovely house though in need of a bit of modernising. I also really […]
R managed to snap a nice little stag eating a tree just outside his window. We’ve had a few deer in this year, and I hope it means that the population is coming back. I know there are too many deer in Scotland and they have to be culled, but I think they went too […]
We used to have a big patch of wild strawberries in the garden but they died off a few years ago. This week I noticed that a new patch had appeared – and yesterday I collected the first few to have ripened. They were pretty good, but I’ll be honest here (though whispering) not as […]
I made a sort of “montage” work of art for my brother’s birthday which featured a photo of every country he has visited (to date 42). Each country had a corresponding penguin (my brother has a “travel penguin” he carries around the world with him) dressed out to represent its country. I drew the penguins […]
After seeing the physio last week I’ve embarked on proper exercise for my foot. I’m walking pretty fluently indoors now wearing either trainers or sports sandles with no crutch or stick. I can walk ok in my soft soled slippers provided it is on carpets, but our house is largely wooden floors and my foot […]
Yesterday I saw two goldfinches on the bird table. It is a bit weird because some years were have virtually nothing apart from thousands of chaffinches, and other years we have quite a good variety. I saw a treecreeper the other day, we have the intermittent siskins back, various tits, blackbirds, robins etc. The heron […]
I went on my second solo trip yesterday – to Edinburgh no less. Still being limited in the distance I can walk (though I managed four flights of stairs and about 6000 steps), and also a bit short of time, I went into a coffee shop (called the “Black Sheep”) for some lunch. There was […]
Lucky’s new modus operendi is this:- Do my own thing in the wilderness for about 48 hours, living on what I can catch and stored fat. If it rains heavily, or if I get very hungry, come home. Eat anything that has been left out for me in the kitchen. Sleep in the lounge on […]
I’ve been walking around the house in the Aircast boot with no other support for a while now. This was not strictly speaking what they told me to do, because the instructions were “partial weight bearing with boot and crutches” until I saw the consultant six weeks after surgery. But my foot was no longer […]
