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cottageinskye 2013-03-10 19:51:00
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.
cottageinskye 2013-03-04 09:54:00
Snowdrops are out
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Towards Broadford from Breakish 
To the north towards Portree
To the mountains on the mainlandDecember Sun!
Today was one of those lovely frosty, but sunny and blue winter days and a little bit hazy. I went a short walk to our beach nearby at Ashaig and it was deserted except for the birds. I’ve just got a new camera so I took a few shots of the views though I didnt cross to the sands and went along the shore.
The top photo looks to Ben na Cailleach (the old woman’s mountain), the second one to the Cuillins and the last one towards the mainland and you can just about see the sandy beach at Ashaig.
This is all only a 10 minute walk from Breakish Moss Cottage.
Winter lettuces
A lovely day today so I was checking out the plants in the tunnels and the greenhouses and planting out spring tulips that I was given as a present from Amsterdam.
The winter lettuces are looking good in the tunnel and if the weather does not get too frosty then they will stay this size till the spring and by April/May we will have our own fresh lettuces again. Looking forward to it already!
First snow of November
Today was cold to start with, and it had been snowing during the night on the mountain tops. When the sun came up around mid morning it was actually quite warm outside and very beautiful too. Here are a couple of photos from our local beach taken today, 4th November.
It is only a 10 minute walk away with great views all the way.
Sunsets in late October
We have been having lovely weather this last week of October and this has resulted in beautiful sunsets. There have also been beautiful skies in the morning but I have not been out with my camera soon enough to take them!
These are taken from Breakish Moss Cottage.
Protective hedges
We’ve just been cutting the hedges that protect our vegetable beds. We planted field maple which was slow growing but has now, after 20 years, made a very good protective barrier against the winds we get here in winter.
You can see how well it has grown from the photos. It also does not need cutting more than once a year which is good.
We have a lot of hedges here including cherry plum and beech so there is a lot of work to do with the hedge trimmers at this time of year.
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