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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Another nice day today and R and I climbed Beinn Vorlich from Loch Sloy. We had had a go at this one during our staycation in 2015, but a combination of driving rain and high wind defeated us. Today it was a bit windy, but quite fair. There were some good views from the top, […]
I got another badge from Fitbit this week – they are few and far between now as I have all the easy ones and they are becoming increasingly difficult to get. This one is for 500 flights of stairs (equivalent) in one day.
It was miserable weather yet again this morning. R and I walked around Inverary for a while, went to the woollen mill and didn’t buy anything. Then we thought about walking up to the folly at the castle but the rain was coming down heavily so we didn’t and just went home again. I was […]
The cats and I were in the kitchen the other night when I glanced out of the window to see the largest pine marten I’ve ever seen nosing around the bird feeding area. Both cats saw him and started to get very excited – I actually had to grab Schrodi who was all ready to […]
R seems to have developed a bit of a wheat allergy. I never knew you could “develop” allergies, I thought you were born with them – but R seems to have managed it. I wish he could have been allergic to something a bit more convenient, because avoiding wheat is a right pain in the […]
Ever since R and I started climbing a couple of years ago – my dream has been to climb Ben Nevis – not using the normal “Tourist Route” (which basically involves several hours of walking up a steep man made path in the company of other people) but via the Carn Mor Dearg (CMD) Arete […]
As I said, R and I have this week off as a “staycation” – our idea was to do some climbing – starting off in the local area to avoid the roads over the weekend and to finish off a few (notably Stob Eas) mountains we haven’t done yet. Then after the bank holiday was […]
I can’t say that R and I are keen gardeners – in fact I am not that keen and to describe him as keen would be like saying that the late Iain Paisley was fond of Catholics. So the garden has got much scruffier and more wildlife friendly (that is a nice way of putting […]
R and I have a term for the typical weather in this area, which is “Goily”. On a goily day the wind sweeps over Beinn Bheula from the west, and brings waves of cloud, rain and sunshine alternately with it. The picture doesn’t do it justice, but yesterday we must have had at least ten […]
I’ve been having a look around at all the things I have missed while I have been out of circulation in the big city – it is funny how you almost immediately lose contact with the rhythms of nature when you go away from it for a while. All kinds of new things are out […]
