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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Jul 31st, 2015

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Gala Day Tomorrow

Well it is our Gala Day tomorrow. The fridge is full of strawberries and cream ready to portion out, and the dining room table is covered with biscuits and cakes – all in aid of the Cormonachan Woodlands Group that I am a member of. I really hope the weather will be ok tomorrow – […]

Jul 29th, 2015

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Windows 10 Day

As I think I have mentioned before – I am a bit of a Windows Fan. Today as everyone probably knows (unless they have been living in a hole in the ground), Windows 10 was released. I have it installed on my desktop and one of my Surfaces, and so far it is pretty nice. […]

Jul 28th, 2015

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O tempora, O mores

When I was a child (I’ll date myself and say I am talking 1970s here) fruit was something we all enjoyed and never seemed to get enough of. For example, I remember being told ‘just one tangerine’, and apples were still something happily accepted as a treat (for example at Halloween). Luxury fruit (strawberries, melons […]

Jul 26th, 2015

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The picture says it all….

I was in the kitchen preparing lunch. I laid out a plate of home made falafels for immediate consumption beside the curry and onion bhajis we were going to have for dinner (luckily the latter two were frozen in a box). I turned away to look at something on my Surface, and when I looked […]

Jul 25th, 2015

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A week to go to our Gala Day

Our Lochgoilhead Gala Day is less than a week away now and the banner is up near the village. Luckily the weather seems to be improving and hopefully we will get a nice day for it.

Jul 22nd, 2015

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Yet another new visitor

While I was out today, R got some photos of this rather fine fox in the garden where it sat for more than five minutes this afternoon. I like foxes and this is only the third one we have seen on the Donich. I was very glad to hear the other day that plans to […]

Jul 22nd, 2015

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The recollection of times past…

J and I went to Dumbarton today. My Mum’s family come from there and as a child we always spent Easters with them (I lived in Balloch until I was three and then moved near Carlisle). My grandparents lived near the East station and we would walk across ‘the swing park’ to get what my […]

Jul 21st, 2015

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A new friend

A new member seems to have joined Team Donich today. Off and on since we have lived here, we have seen a great spotted woodpecker on the nuts, but they have always been very shy and elusive. Now over the last few days, a juvenile has started joining us, not feeding off the nuts, but […]

Jul 19th, 2015

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Very pretty evening…

Just went outside for a photo of some very nice cloud formations over Beinn Bheula (R says it looks as though it has a hat on). There were a few midgies – but nothing like this time last year when you wouldn’t have been out there for more than a few seconds before clouds of […]

Jul 19th, 2015

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Big Donich Circular

Around here the walk from Lochgoilhead round to the Donich waterfalls and back via Inveronich is called the ‘Donich Circular’ – however today R and I did a far bigger Donich circular and completely circumnavigated Beinn Donich. There is a good description of it on View Ranger here http://my.viewranger.com/route/details/NjkyNDQ%3D. I would say that it was […]