Ben Eighe

Spent a day hiking around Ben Eighe while up in the Highlands.

Iced in grass.
Spray from a nearby waterfall coated the rocks and vegetation in a layer of ice.

Clubmoss

We ran out of time and didn't make the summit of Ben Eighe proper, but we still got some fantastic views up high.

Beaches

Day 1 at the Cottage was Beach-exploration day.
It was a few days before winter solstice and at our latitude this meant it was sunrise or sunset all day. Amazing light for photography.

Farmhouse

Long shadows at 12:30pm

Tide art

Funky seaweed

Flotsam or Jetsam? Turns out they're not the same thing.

Beach #2

Happy Sue

Even the road looked good in this light.

The local Post Office.

Beach #3

These cows have some stellar real estate.

Lichens growing right next to the sea. Who knew there were salt tolerant lichens?

Cozy Aird Cottage

We spent a week in a cottage near a tiny town called Badachro in the Highlands. Aird Cottage is somewhere down there, behind the island.

Aird Cottage

The village of Badachro.

We spent a lot of time hanging out next to the fire in the evenings. Our goals of knitting, dancing, playing games and making music were all achieved.

Food was five star and included wild venison and some locally harvested mussels.

Cottage garden.

Scotland got a rare snowfall near the end of our stay up there and more than two weeks later we still have snow in Edinburgh.

Sue, living it up.

Sightseeing with the Canadians

Lumberjack John and Bertha in Edinburgh.

Glencoe

Scottish wildlife.
I was pretty impressed, until some random dude started feeding these guys bread.

John making friends with a doe.

Cold at the car.

In the Lost Valley.
The Campbell's used to hide their cattle up here to avoid taxes.

Looking back on the Lost Valley.

Into the snow.