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September 26
An unpromising, hazy start to the afternoon developed into a quite dramatic sunset on the path up to Loch Eilde Mor
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September 25
The beech are just starting to turn and are showing a full range of their colour at once
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September 24
The woodland at the back of the house is mostly lodgepole pine but interspersed are a random assortment of beech, birch, scots fir and more.
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September 23
Our Rowan tree is slowly turning autumnal against the birch and bracken colour
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September 20
Such a good walk yesterday and so rainy today that I’m posting an old photo looking back from Gearr Aonach toward Ballachulish bridge
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September 19
Had a walk up the front of the middle sister (Gearr Aonach) via the scary looking but quite accessible ‘zig-zags’. A stunning day for a walk!
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September 9
One of our best friends passed away today – goodbye Harpo, have fun in the fields wherever you are!
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August 20
A walk up into the Three Sisters to potter around in the Lost Valley (Coire Gabhail), one of the best short walks in Scotland.
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August 19
Wooded coastline next to the Sea Life centre at Dalrannoch near Barcaldine.
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August 17
Allt Coire nam Beithach waterfall above Achnambeithach after a rainy day
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August 16
Down by the Isles of Glencoe hotel just North of Ballachulish is a little walk with a few benches to sit and look out to Eilean Munde (The Isle of the Dead)
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August 15
Highland soil is very acid as evidenced by this incredibly blue hydrangea in our garden
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August 13
Garbh Bheinn taken from the road between Glencoe and Kinlochleven
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August 10
A wander around Arisaig Beach enjoying the different colours of the bell heather and ling with a view to Eigg and Rhum in the background
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August 8
The classic view down Loch Leven from the A82. I was one of a line of people waiting to take photos.
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August 6
As you go from Glencoe to Rannoch Moor, you pass the Altnafeadh and can see King’s House hotel in the distance. Usually people photograph the Buachaille Etive Mor on the right but the clouds and sunlight caught my eye
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August 5
Monbretia grows across most of Scotland, particularly by lochs and lanes. Outside our house it covers most of the laybys.
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August 3
This once rare native species now covers disturbed ground, adding colour to gravel banks and earthworks like here next to the Isled of Glencoe hotel
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August 2
We had a few hours free so we took a walk up Buachaille Etive Beag. It was nice to see so many wild flowers. Here you can see Bog Asphodel and a couple of Spotted Orchids in the foreground but we also saw Harebell, Milkwort, Eyebright, Tormentil and Wild Thyme.
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August 1
Opposite Ballachulish, on the shores of Loch Leven, are a set of boat sheds which used to be the workshops for the men who split and sized slate from the quarry.
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July 30
The Lochan at the old hospital in Glencoe has recently been cleared of rhododendron and the islands that used to look like hedgehogs now are sparse. Hopefully, this will give a chance for new, native plants to grow.
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July 28
The heather comes into flower after a couple of weeks of sunny weather and the landscape is transformed.
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July 25
Returning to Home via a trip on Mull Charters to see Sea Eagles we had a picnic with a view
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July 22
Unlike down in Guernsey where the Montbretia is nearly finished flowering, up in the Highlands it hasn’t even started!
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July 21
Within the woods at the back of East Laroch, Ballachulish, there are many dead trees. The occasional tree resists the layer of moss that seems to over all else.
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July 12
Here’s an older one from March of the old croft on the Brecklet trail
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July 11
We’re in Guernsey at the moment so for the next week my posts will be photos from the last couple of weeks. Here’s one of the wildflowers in the Ballachulish quarry
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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 22
Common Haircap Moss starting to flower in the background and Tormentil flowers for colour
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