Newtonmore Wildflowers

 I was out looking for a particular brown lichen that grows on trees and spotted some on a tree at the edge of Newtonmore Golf Course. At fi...

 Spring has definitely arrived, with blossom and  leaves on the trees and spring bulbs and dandelions flowering.  The catkins opened up to s...

 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" ...