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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Well here R and I are in Meiringen, in the Berenese Oberland of Switzerland, with J kindly looking after the cats at home. Unfortunately, the only direct flight we could get from Scotland to Switzerland was from Edinburgh to Geneva, which meant not only a long drive at our end, but an epic train journey […]
I was sitting in my office about 9:30pm yesterday – when I saw our little roe deer doe down by the candlestick primulas (she is very fond of these, in the eating sense rather than the aesthetic one). Suddenly she was followed by a tiny fawn. It may well just have been born that day […]
Schrodi is a very prolific catcher of small furry creatures, but never (to my knowledge) eats his prey. I feel that their deaths should at least benefit something – so I put the pathetic little bodies out in the creature feeding area. They always disappear – and a couple of times I’ve seen the badger […]
The water lilies are out now and looking very pretty. Unfortunately, the weather is so chill, damp and midgie that there isn’t much pleasure in outdoor activities at the moment. Even our usual walks have to be squashed into the intervals between rain time and midgie time. Still, we are off to Switzerland on Friday […]
I am getting a bit better at baking with non-wheat flour, although I still think that even at their best, the results are never going to be as good as the traditional methods. I made these cheese and onion soda bread style rolls for R and stole a bit myself as they smelt so delicious. […]
The first thing I saw looking out of my office window around 6:30 this morning was a little roe deer eating my primulas. One of the things about wildlife (certainly in UK) is that although it is very prolific in some areas (like here), you rarely see it except if you have a special area […]
Click on the photo for a video of one of our badgers in colour. This was at 5:45am – unfortunately by the time I was in the kitchen about 20 minutes later it had departed.
I seem destined not to get to Iona on the Waverley. Last year the trip was cancelled before we set off due to bad weather. This time we actually got to Oban and were on the boat before the Captain announced that because of high winds the tender operator (tender as in ship, not a […]
R bought me a little bear on the Waverley because he is the twin of the ScotSTS bears I bought to go in the goodie bags for our conference. Now I have triplet bears on my bookshelf. I decided to call him Jerome. I had thought of Columba because of Iona, but decided against it […]
N and J stayed over at the weekend. Schrodi made sure to get both of their beds ready for them. Unlike when my Mum came to stay around this time last year though, he didn’t favour them with any rodents during the night.
