Newtonmore Wildflowers

 I have been attempting to convert a lawn into a wildflower meadow over the last two years.  I am taking a "slowly, slowly" approa...

 Since I last posted, I have travelled about more in the last month than I have all year. First was a trip to Inverness to transport a frien...

 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...