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
Expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms Purchase
I’ve been informed that an Internet meme is that no one likes anything introduced to them after the age of thirty five. This is not true. I’ll freely admit that I turned 51 recently, and I like many things (not all things – I’m not a massive social media fan) introduced since 2002. I’m a […]
We had a sprinkling of snow overnight yesterday and when we went for our walk there was a fantastic rainbow. It was actually not only a double but a triple bow – but I don’t think the triple part shows up in the photos. Today is cold but sunny and we are seeing the first […]
In common with many people in rural Scotland we have no piped gas supply and are reliant on LPG for our central heating, water heater and gas fire. Aside from this, our only heating in the house is a propane heater I have in my office and an electric heater in R’s. So obviously it […]
We had a lovely lunch the other day in a restaurant I won’t name in this context. R is a bit of a whisky lover and I thought this particular cocktail menu was a bit of a crime against Scotland. I mean why would you use 12 year old malt whisky in this cocktail rather […]
My Mum and I went out for lunch in Helensburgh the other day and I noticed that the parish church door was open. We popped inside and what a lovely building – the stained glass was quite spectacular – particularly the window commemorating John Logie Baird the inventor of television who came from Helensburgh. The […]
This is our new Robot which I have christened “Goldie” She has pretty efficiently vacuumed the whole house today. I was hoping the cats would sit on her and go for a ride, but they seemed caught between rather frightened and indifferent.
The snow here is very persistent this year. Yesterday both R and I tried to clear the drive again – with no luck as the snow had frozen into a layer of ice. We haven’t had any post here for the last couple of days and I doubt anyone could get up the drive anyway […]
I bought a rather expensive tapestry cushion kit recently. I like to have something to do on the rare occasions I sit down to watch videos. Anyway – it is perhaps rather beyond my level of competency but having completed a small portion of it, I left it on a chair in the lounge. The […]
Last night we had hot dogs for our dinner – there were a few sausages left over and I didn’t think we would get round to eating them as I was going to be out in Glasgow today. So I put them out for creatures to take. Our new fox discovered them rather quickly – […]
Very snowy again yesterday. Having cleared the drive laboriously during the afternoon, come evening it started to snow again – so this morning R and I had to clear it yet again. Drive before Drive After I’m actually rather surprised and impressed that ASDA managed to deliver our weekly order this morning. There were some […]
