Newtonmore Wildflowers

 We had a delivery of a pile of miscellaneous sections of tree trunks for chopping up for the fire, some of which must have been sitting aro...

Frog spawn has appeared today in my pond – quite hard to see in the photo because of the reflections of trees and sky, but  you can make out...

 There is still no frog spawn in my pond, though there was at this time in previous years, so I thought I would check out Loch Imrich and th...

 We have been having some beautiful clear cold days recently and I went for a walk around Strone, which is a ridge above Newtonmore, with so...

 Apart from my interest in lichens and botany, I am also a keen crafter, using textiles. While I have been "confined to barracks" ...

  Apo –what? Read on and you will have a new word to add your vocabulary.  In a previous post  I wrote a little about dandelions. It is fair...

 I have become more interested in bones since I broke my ankle and got to look at the X-ray: My ankle is now held together with various bits...