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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I have to say that this time of year is not my favourite – particularly with the weather being as it has of late (drizzling, calm and midge ridden). The garden doesn’t have the interest and variety it had earlier in the year (or will when autumn comes), with everything seeming to be settled down […]
I made this for my parents the other day – I put chicken in it for them as I am not sure my father entirely gets the concept of vegetarian food – but without it, the dish is vegan and just as nice…. Heat oven to 180C. Fry two large roughly chopped onions and two […]
Very lovely views over Beinn Bheula tonight… Actually not a bad day in general. The new shed is finished and I started to move stuff in there this afternoon. While I was moving some pots a large frog jumped out and let me look at him for a while. There’s also a lot of smaller […]
I went out this afternoon to try to get some even better pictures of the water lilies, and got side tracked a bit. Last year we had one small wild strawberry plant by the pond. This year my eye was suddenly caught by a flash of red – and on inspection the whole flowerbed was […]
After many false starts the water lilies are finally out in the pond. We are really lucky we did not give up and assume they had been killed by the late frosts (I had been talking to R about pulling them out and planting some new ones) because now they are magnificent (and will be […]
To make my bedroom match my new office, I got a new duvet set and curtains. Then I made some matching cushion covers and also tie backs for the curtains. Finally I covered the seat of my bedroom chair in matching fabric. It looks quite nice, and I am pleased to say that it is […]
R and I were going for our walk this morning and got to the bottom of the drive when he spotted something in the middle of the road. It was a snake like creature around 20cm long and was lying very still. At first I thought it was a slow worm, but then I saw […]
My mum was sleeping in our new ‘snug’ while she was here. This is basically what used to be R’s office but done out with a new futon and a Japanese screen covering the servers and their associated mass of cables. At about 4am, Schrodi decided to complement my mother by bringing her a present […]
My parents have been visiting for a few days, and we went on a couple of trips. On Thursday we went out on the Waverley (for those that don’t know, the world’s last ocean going paddle steamer and somewhat of a Scottish institution). This time she was bound out from Greenock, round by Dunoon (where […]
I made some Strawberry Jam this afternoon, not with my own berries which are not ready yet, but with some cheap ones from the supermarket. Just at the moment there is a glut on and you can buy an enormous box for what one small punnet would cost during the winter. The jam smelled lovely […]
