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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No one loves animals more than I do. I have to say though, that unless you are actually a vegan (as I have stated before, not an ethos I agree with), having a policy of banning fur, whilst allowing other animal products such as meat and leather is highly hypocritical and in fact just a […]
Sad to say I have started my Christmas preparations with all my presents either arrived or on order. I just made my first Christmas cake and gave it a big feed of brandy as it seemed to have dried out at the edges a bit. To be honest, I am not fond of either Christmas […]
The weather here is still fantastic. R and I went out just the back of 7:30 this morning, and the moon was still hanging in the sky over the trees like a balloon or a big silver plate. I took some photos with my new camera, using R’s back as a kind of improvised tripod. […]
I got a lovely new camera for my birthday. Tora bought it, but I feel he may have had some technical advice from R. It has up to a 60x optical zoom so it is a bit better than the iPhone. Luckily the weather has been quite spectacular of late so I have had the […]
We had a little Halloween celebration at our place. I was an evil nun, N was Vlad the Impaler, J was a witch, and R was the little man who does the reaping. We each did our guising piece although I must admit that mine was written by Tora. Thrice the vole and mouse have […]
Yesterday there was the first sprinkling of snow on Beinn Bheula. It was too foggy to see the other summits. Today is pretty clear and there is a substantial amount of snow on Bheula, Donich and Cnoc Coinnich. This is actually atypically early as we don’t normally get it before the second week in November. […]
Well I said that I would do some rants….. These utter idiots of MPs need to be dismissed before the country is completely destroyed. I will particularly nominate Jeremy Corbyn for immediate sacking, but I will include every one of the SNP MPs as well. I am not a fan of Conservative social policies but […]
Poor R has been a constant mobile heat pad for Tora of late, as the heat pads my Mum bought for the cats a couple of years ago stopped working. So in an attempt to have his legs to himself for a while – R bought a couple of new ones – one for the […]
Someone killed our poor wee fox that has been visiting the feeding area for nuts all summer and dumped its little body by the side of the hydro road. People walk down that road with their children and it would be a horrible sight for a child to see. Someone told me that last year […]
You may remember the “Deeds of Schrodel” post which must have been ten years ago now. This was Schrodi’s (now unfortunately passed on) attempts at getting me out of bed one morning. Well Tora had a good go at revisiting this the other day. Times are approximate 4am and round about – Scratching at the […]
