Archive for May, 2007

Beinn a' Chreachain

When I am king, snow in late May will be outlawed!
Yesterday a friend and I went to near Bridge of Orchy to hike up Beinn a’ Chreachain, along the ridge over Meall Buidhe and up Beinn Achaladair. We knew the weather was likely to be a bit dodgy and thought we were pretty well [...]

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Meanwhile…

I’ve been having some on-going network problems. Which means I’ve been spending more time working (sigh), taking photos (yay) and selling photos (double yay!).
The storm picture I posted as several images last year. I merged them into a single image, and that seems to be something people like. Likewise for a panorama [...]

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Monuments and Mountains

The author of the just-published Monuments and Mountains sent me a copy of his book, which was nice. He’d asked to use one of my photos of the Nether Largie standing stones:

I have some nice photos of Nether Largie. What a shame that he wanted to use such a boring one!

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Orchids

I’ve been given some more orchids. I think this is a splendid habit to get into!
The label says they’re Cymbidium [Edit: but cleverer people than me tell me they're Oncidium]. They’re lovely, whatever they’re called. Took some pictures of them this afternoon. I dare say there will be more pictures in [...]

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Spring

Mayflowers….mmmmm!

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