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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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.
After a damp and midgie week the weather suddenly picked up late this afternoon and most of the insects vanished. I made the most of it by going for a quick hike up Cnoc Coinnich. The views were sensational as ever. I didn’t see a soul the whole way apart from a few sheep, until […]
R and I went for our normal walk this morning although it is not pleasant at the moment as the midgies are fierce (they love warm wet weather as we currently have). On the way out we narrowly evaded Schrodi by running down the driveway. But we had to walk through the village to post […]
I made lunch for some friends from London today. I’d prepared a (relatively) healthy crème fraiche based crowdie for desert – then right at the last minute I thought it looked a bit underwhelming and decided to make a cake I’d been wanting to have a go at for a while – a Sachertorte. I’d […]
My brother N is not fond of sweet things (well – he isn’t now although until he was in his 20s his idea of a good breakfast was half a packet of chocolate digestives or 2 twirls) so when I went down to Mum and Dad’s for his birthday, I made him a rather unusual […]
Hard to believe what a change there has been in the weather since yesterday. Last night about 8pm I took this picture at the top of the Tam A’Cheulig walk. The cloud was thick and solid around 250m and I couldn’t even see the top of the Steeple, let alone Cnoc Coinnich. And then […]
I’ve been deconstructing an old shed in our garden preparatory to having a new one constructed this week (not by us I hasten to add – we are getting the manufacturer in to do it this time). This was a pretty hard and dirty job, but it was nice to see that I got plenty […]
On Saturday I got up very early (5:45) to be able to go for a walk before we went to Glasgow for the day. I’ll be honest here and admit that trying to get the “Perfect Week” cheevo on my new iPhone might have been part of this. Glancing out of the window while making […]
This made a very tasty lunch which was ready from scratch in an hour. I made some home made rolls using my super-fast microwave method – and we had them with some baked peppers. Normally I do a fancy stuffing, but on this occasion I just cut each pepper in half and took the seeds […]
I’ve never seen anything like the blossom on our fruit trees this year. The apple tree in the picture is particularly splendid – in previous years it has never done much. So hoping for a good harvest and many apple pies. The smaller tree beside it is a pear, and it has also been loaded […]
