Summer produce

Here are a few delicious things I picked today. Some of our visitors enjoy picking vegetables with us for their dinner whilst staying at Breakish Moss Cottage. We have a fine selection of organic vegetables, fruit and eggs.

July highlights!

Have been working hard on the garden for months now as I volunteered to have an Open Garden Day on July 6th. Anyway unfortunately it rained all day!  We still had 22 visitors and raised £70 for our local hall her in Breakish.

Here are a few photos of the flowers that are out now. Really enjoying them.

Summer flowers

The garden is looking very pretty just now with lots of lovely plants flowering. We are having an Open Garden in July so I hope it will still look good then when most of these have gone!

Azalea

Bluebells

Dont know the name of this daisy - very colourful 

Forget me not

Globe flowers

Went a lovely trip to try to catch some trout in a nice loch about 3 miles away. You have to climb the hill steeply from about a quarter of the way up the Kylerhea road and eventually get to 3 lovely lochs which have quite a lot of fish in them - if you can catch them!

Anyway we didnt get anything that night but got this real close up of a deer on he way home. He
just stood there and let us look at him and we were very close as you can see.

My little magnolia flowered this year. The Stellata magnolia has such a pretty flower. We have really enjoyed it.

We have been lucky to have great weather this week and with the help from our wwoofers Thea and Jacob we managed to get the polytunnel plastic on again. It has been off for the last year. Great to get it all planted out and usable again. Thank you Jacob and Thea!

Have been getting a great display from the tulip bulbs we were given for Christmas. They were from Amsterdam from relatives travelling through but are the best bulbs we have ever had. Such beautiful colours. I put them in the greenhouse till they were nearly ready and they have lasted for weeks.

Today was lovely but cold and there were even a few flakes of snow in between the sun.

We went a walk up on the moor behind our house and to the lovely river Lusa about half a mile away and walked up the river side with its wonderful waterfalls and ravines. A beautiful isolated place.

We walked back on what we could find of the old drove road from Breakish to Kylerhea - not much of it is visible these days. Here's a few photos I took of the views.

Went a lovely walk yesterday to Harta Corrie up the Sligachan river. Walked about 10 miles and though is was a bit misty at times it was very atmospheric. There are so many lovely walks near here we are very lucky. The top photo is of "The Bloody Stone", it is in the Corrie and marks the spot of a battle between the Macleods and the MacDonalds a long time ago. The other photo is on the walk in.

Snowdrops are out

Well it is a nice feeling that it is February though our January weather has been quite good compared to usual. Only one storm so far this year. The snowdrops are out too. They look so peaceful even in the storm.

I've just been out for a walk round Breakish. We have the best weather in the UK just now and so far all of January has been lovely with just a bit of snow on the tops and lots of sun, like today. So lucky to live here.

Towards Broadford from Breakish

           To the north towards Portree

 To the mountains on the mainland