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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We have had four ewes and an enormous ram in our garden. I was expecting them to have gone overnight but they were still here today. The farmer turned up with his dog to round them up but apparently they ran off up the hill and he couldn’t catch them. My Mum wrote a poem […]
In spite of the official “R Spring” not starting for another three weeks – I can see evidence of life in the garden. The narrcissi are coming out under the fruit trees and there are catkins on the pussy willows at the bottom of the garden. The siskins are also back – just in time […]
I have to say that I am totally relieved that we finally have this Brexit nonsense sorted, at least the first stage. I am not a huge fan of the Tory party as I don’t support the financial sector in London running the whole country, but I have actually always liked Boris. I also saw […]
In honour of Burns night, Tora bought R a bottle of whisky with one of his favourite things on the lable. Here is the poem the cats wrote about it last year. Sadly nostalgic as it is coming up for a year since Schrodi died. Wee Sleeket cowran tim’rous beastie How we’d love to catch […]
Fantastic sunset last night – possibly the most beautiful we have ever seen. Apparently the same all over Scotland but unfortunately back to dreich today.
Super high tide the other day with seaweed nearly up to the door of the post office. Not quite as bad as a few years ago when the main road was closed due to bad weather and I had to go to Glasgow via Dunoon on the ferry. There was seaweed and stones thrown up […]
I have just signed up for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. I do it every year and it always makes me laugh because when I say how many chaffinches I am looking at, the website always thinks I am making a typo when I say 50+ “Are you really sure you can see that many […]
Late last year I laid a new floor in our dining room. It was backbreaking work taking several days and I promised myself I would not be doing any more flooring work as although I am (reasonably) good at doing it, I don’t really have the right specialized tools for the job. But then at […]
I just can’t believe how much the birds are eating at the moment. They have two large feeders which hold about 1kg of food and they are emptying them at least five times a day. They would empty them a lot more than that if R and I let them. Unfortunately the delivery of the […]
We have at least four robins in the garden at the moment, and got a Christmas present of a nesting box for them. We put it up today, but how we can ensure that only robins (rather than sparrows or blue tits) nest in it, I do not know. It looks nice though. Let’s see […]
