A couple of weeks ago in the middle of December, we were treated to a quick overnight blast of snow....
Caithness Holiday Day 5: Badbea Clearance Village
An unusual choice of place to visit on the last day of one's holidays, but an important monument to Highland/Caithness...
Caithness Holiday Day 4: Duncansby Head and Stacks
Ignoring the previous post about offensive misuse of woodland, my fourth day of the holiday started out pretty well, with...
Craig Varr: Misty Landscape
Saturday was one of those strange days where the weather forecast changed, leaving me not particularly inspired where to go...
Caithness Holiday Day 4: when a forest is not a wood
Sometimes I have to tell it like it is. Dunnet Forest is one of the least pleasant collections of trees...
Caithness Holiday Day 3: Strathnaver and Strathmore are not Caithness
As the weather dictated, a slight detour from the east coast away out to the centre and west of the...
Caithness Holiday Day 2: Whaligoe Steps and Camster Cairns
Many moons ago... the parents and I were on holiday around Caithness and having trouble finding the way to Whaligoe...
Caithness Holiday 1
I had a few days' holiday at the end of May. The first day started in Perthshire and finished on...
Autumn Years: Abandoned A93 Road, Craighall Gorge
On a recent excursion elsewhere, a friend tipped me off to the existence of the gorge at Craighall, through which...
Abstract Cloudy Skies
Simple pleasures. Two photos of clouds catching the evening sunset light. [gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="3985,3986"]
Another day… another sunset
"Slight chance of convective weather" is rapidly becoming my new favourite weather alert, especially coming at the end of the...
West Woods of Ethie
It was one of those crazy late-spring days with a clear divide in the weather - everywhere north of the...
Aberdeenshire Coast: Catterline
I'd never really explored much of the Aberdeenshire coastline. On Saturday, however - feeling liberated from EV range anxiety -...
Birks of Aberfeldy
A few weeks ago, I spent a happy Saturday afternoon strolling around the Birks of Aberfeldy, testing the newly acquired...