February and March can be quite difficult months in Assynt.  By the end of March the land is looking very denuded of both colour and growth.  What little grass there was has long been eaten by hungry, pregnant sheep, and the dried bracken makes the land look very brown.   But magically, when April comes, colour and life suddenly seems to return, as we saw on our Sunday walk today.



Besides these very pretty little cream flowers there were also beautiful, tiny violets which, sadly, refused to be photographed!  The moss is all beginning to green up too, as you can see above, and the gorse is blooming:



And of course, setting off for our Sunday Walk you couldn't help but notice the daffodils in the garden are at their best right now, with the tiny rowan tree in amongst them just starting to green up too:



Even in the tiny crevices of the rocks the mosses and lichen are taking on new colours:



And with spring comes a dog clip.  The dogs have been getting shaggier and shaggier, so I was pleased to see them finally clipped this week.  While I had to snap Peggy very quickly before she dashed off to investigate something new:



Lexie was happy to stand and pose - as usual:

 



It has been a busy week, but one which bought the delight of meeting a lady from the US who drove all the way up from Glasgow just to meet me and see the workshop.  Fortunately she (and her family) were thrilled to have made the trip as they saw parts of Scotland they would not have seen otherwise in their very brief visit to this country.   Thank you, Joanne, for making the effort to get up here.  Next week it is me who shall be doing the driving.  I will be setting off to Darlington on Wednesday, hopefully in Mungo but that has yet to be decided given he is currently in the garage having a few new bits fitted - but that is another story.