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July 9
During a particularly misty day, a quick drive up the glen revealed rapidly changing conditions. Waiting around for a few minutes revealed Coire nan Lochan for a moment.
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July 8
Just on the road between Glencoe and Altnafeadh (the house below Buachaille Etive Mor) you can pull off the road and take a walk in the moor and find networks of small streams. Here one of these streams act as a leading line to Glen Coe itself.
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July 7
At the foot of the three sisters near Loch Achtriochtan, daisies grow near the verge; a beautiful foreground for the Loch and the Aonach Eagach ridge beyond.
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July 6
The archery range at the back of the village has to be one of most picturesque in the UK!
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July 5
Around the back of our house is a archery range which sites on the site of an old quarry, one which was used by the villagers when the main quarry shut down. The quarry is now overgrown and hidden behind a target at the range. Well worth a visit!
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July 4
The quarry in Ballachulish is a treat in the right light. In the seams between slate layers, soil gets trapped, forms a home for mosses and heather, bilberry and eventually birch trees. The glancing late light of the summer sun alight on branches, limned in gold.
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July 3
Just past the switchback above Glencoe, the river coe cuts alongside the road as a Mountain Ash leans out over the blushing granite.
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July 2
At the back of our garden, nature is encroaching. Our mountain ash shelters leggy foxglove. The rain that holds me in supports a rich and vibrant ecology.
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July 1
Opposite our home in Ballachulish there are a few lay bys and in another rainy, overcast day, a more abstract view of the landscape was called for. This Beech tree frames the view with dabs of colour and texture from wildflowers and grasses.
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June 30
Just past midsummer, the bog cotton sprinkles Rannoch Moor with drops of white and the grasses start to drift toward warmer colours. In the background, Beinn a’Chrulaiste captures the occasional sun during a break in a typical, turbulent Highland summer.
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June 29
A view back across to Ardgour from near the Ballachulish bridge captured in a rainy mood. It does seem that, despite it being a very wet summer, the clouds typically have a lot of variety in texture and as long as it’s not raining there are still photographs to be had.
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June 28
Walking above Kinlochleven toward Loch Eilde the trees open up to show a fabulous vista toward the Pap of Glencoe and Beinn a’Bheithir in the far distance. The last light on this promontory highlights the trees against the darker hills beyond
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June 26
The poisonous Foxglove plant grows in the garden to the rear of our house near the forest.
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June 25
Just below the abandoned house once owned by Jimmy Saville, the river Coe cuts its way through the pink granite. The towering peak of Gearr Aonoch guards the entrance of the Lost Valley, the hiding place of some of the luckier inhabitants of the Glencoe valley when the British were told to murder the whole…
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June 24
The remains of part of the Caledonian forest are revealing where a burn cuts through the peat. The trees are potentially 4,000 years old, a victim of the climate becoming wetter and the environment changing to become dominated by bog and probably finished off by the arrival of small communities using the trees for building…
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June 23
Our Acer grows just by the side of the house and is a wonderful source of detail photographs. We’ve since named the tree “Lemmy” in honour of one of the greats of rock (we’ll let you work out why)
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June 22
Common Haircap Moss starting to flower in the background and Tormentil flowers for colour
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