Yet another day off!

I know … 2 days off in one week is extravagant!   But it was such a lovely, sunny day yesterday, and Stevan is on holiday, so we thought we’d make the most of the bright weather and go exploring again.
We headed north, starting out on our journey along what visitors to this part of the [...]

Sunshine (aka mini-holiday part 2)

While exploring the grounds of the David Marshall Lodge Visitor Centre I managed to get a few photographs of the beautiful bluebells which are in full bloom at the moment.

I also came across this statue built in recognition of the LumberJills during WWII:

Further wanderings through the huge grounds led to a discovery of this installation [...]

City Visit

From time to time we have to visit the city of Inverness.  It is a four hour round trip, and isn’t an outing we relish as we’re really not city folk, but there are compensations – the views along the way:
And even Lexie couldn’t stop herself from sticking her nose out the window to admire [...]

Planning ahead

My recent visit to K1 in Edinburgh was a lot of fun, even though the date had to be hastily changed because of weather conditions here in the north.  In fact it was so much fun that Katherine and I decided it would be a good idea to do it all again in August, only [...]

Just a rock

I’ve been searching the garden and the countryside for early signs of spring.  And while the daffodils are starting to poke their heads through the ground, they’re having to contend with a very cold winter and hens this year, and they’re not doing quite as well as they did last year.   The leaves are looking [...]