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October 19
We came back from a week away to find nearly all of our Acer’s leaves have fallen in storm Ophelia
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October 16
A few gusts of wind and our Acer (called Lemmy) has shed nearly all of its leaves.
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October 1
The regular beam of light leaks across Rannoch Moor and skims the Buachaille before disappearing into the cloud bank for the rest of the day
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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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