Magnolia

A dry calm spell of weather recently has meant I was able to get the drone up in the air.  The woodland 'garden' planted in the 1930s has suffered a lot in recent years from storm damage, with lots of trees and shrubs being felled by high winds and often sadly obliterating beautiful shrubs as they fall.  Luckily the beautiful Magnolia you can see from the main road has not yet been hit, and we enjoy it flowering every year.

This year it has flowered abundantly and a week or so of calm weather meant there was a good cover of flowers on the tree itself.

Kilmaluaig graveyard was hidden by scrub Blackthorn and Bracken when we first came here.  We managed to clear it, cutting back the scrub and cutting the Bracken, but unfortunately the Bracken is back.

Winter feeding

The farm routine in the winter revolves around feeding.    Out in all weathers.  

Collecting seaweed

Winter storms have deposited a huge mound of seaweed at one side of the beach, making it easy to collect it mechanically.  

Farmer took advantage of this and filled a few trailers full to spread on a field between Shian and Duill and the farm building. 

As you can imagine, with so much marine plastic washing up along the coast there is usually a lot of plastic in the seaweed, but this was remarkably clean considering. 

It will rot down over the next few months, and hopefully help the grass grow! 

The end of the month

We have had all sorts of days in February, and a lot of them wet.  There has been some sunshine in between the showers and some great waves. 

Waves at Calgary

Between Calgary and Treshnish

A Cormorant, victim of the storms lying beside the deer fence.

Rum, Skye, Eigg, Muck - from Ben Duill

The Paps of Jura, over the tip of Gometra and the Ross of Mull

Beautiful Ben More

The Treshnish Isles - from Ben Duill

Calgary..

Treshnish waves