Just back from a few days up in Glencoe again. This time it rained - for 4 days solid! I try and get up to Glencoe at least once a month, its my favourite place, but this time the weather was really foul! Still - as they say, skin is waterproof!
In the morning my campfire site looked more like an island in a lake than a campfire!
Some call the glen the weeping glen, in this weather its easy to see why - it looks brooding and foreboding!
There were a few breaks in the weather however and this is The Lochan, near Glencoe Village. The woodland was planted by Lord Strathcona in the nineteenth century in an attempt to recreate the Pacific NorthWest for his homesick native-American wife. I think she still left him to go back home, maybe the rain was too much for her!
Not sure which type of tree this is(beech or ash perhaps?) but it is an interesting fissure. I should have paid more attention to the leaves in order to identify it.
Some wild life made an appearance, this mallard was a bit camera shy.
The swans were a bit more curious but there was a dog bounding about so they kept their distance.
This wind surfer was struggling to catch any wind. I spied him out of the corner of my eye but I had to use full zoom on my fuji hs10 to pick him out.
The swans and the surfer were shot (on camera, not by gun!) on the way home at Loch Lubnaig which is just north of the village of Callander.
Thanks for looking.
Jim
In the morning my campfire site looked more like an island in a lake than a campfire!
Some call the glen the weeping glen, in this weather its easy to see why - it looks brooding and foreboding!
There were a few breaks in the weather however and this is The Lochan, near Glencoe Village. The woodland was planted by Lord Strathcona in the nineteenth century in an attempt to recreate the Pacific NorthWest for his homesick native-American wife. I think she still left him to go back home, maybe the rain was too much for her!
Not sure which type of tree this is(beech or ash perhaps?) but it is an interesting fissure. I should have paid more attention to the leaves in order to identify it.
Some wild life made an appearance, this mallard was a bit camera shy.
The swans were a bit more curious but there was a dog bounding about so they kept their distance.
This wind surfer was struggling to catch any wind. I spied him out of the corner of my eye but I had to use full zoom on my fuji hs10 to pick him out.
The swans and the surfer were shot (on camera, not by gun!) on the way home at Loch Lubnaig which is just north of the village of Callander.
Thanks for looking.
Jim