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 noticed these gentlemen in a field near Drimsynie – they are not natives of Argyll – unless I miss my guess they are belted Galloways from ‘down south’. They must be up here paying a visit to their northern friends the Heilan’ Coos which were placidly sharing the same field. They gave us a […]
R was away in Manchester for a couple of days doing a training course. As a nice surprise for him I made a huge curry with naan bread, but by the time he came home he was too tired to eat. We were visiting my parents briefly the next day on our way to Glasgow, […]
Bit of a cold and rainy morning for a walk – but we did manage to see a nice rainbow on the path looking over the fields to Beinn Donich. Of course 10 minutes later all we could see was rain!
First snow of the year on the mountains within 24 hours of when it appeared last year. A very, very beautiful day.
I had my parents, my brother and my friend J over for my birthday. It being the 4th of November we also had some very impressive display fireworks with N risking body and soul to light them. I had a little medieval theme going and this was my “dragon hoard” cake. I may have overdone […]
Sadly this was our last day. We went to Sorrento – actually I think we should have stayed there rather than Vico Equense as it is more set up for tourists and is actually a more pleasant town. There were some beautiful views over the bay in the evening. Unfortunately we had to be up […]
We went to Capri today. This must be one of the most charming places in the world. J was no overly enthusiastic about another major walk up a hill, but to do him credit he went along with it. We went to the Villa Jovis which was Tiberius’ residence as famed in Suetonius. I am […]
After our rather scary first visit to Napoli we came back and this time I had no problem with the city at all. Possibly this was because we had the iPhone fully charged and therefore had unrestricted to Google Maps, and also were more accustomed to the awful traffic, but we genuinely enjoyed ourselves today. […]
Weather now greatly improved. Sunny but not too hot at around 18 degrees. This would have suited R fine though unfortunately he is back in rainy Argyll looking after the cats. In the morning we went up Vesuvius. Personally I would have climbed it from sea level, but I don’t think that considering J’s performance […]
