Gairloch waves

Gairloch Beach 

Ceol

Music at the Strathcarron Hotel

Boxing day storm

snowy River Carron

a Robin xmas shopping.

A Robin shelters from the storm in a stressful christmas consumer overloaded glittery Tescos.

The Treehouse TV premier

 folks from lochcarron & strathcarron communities gathered for supper at the Carron Restaurant to watch the TV premier of 'The great Treehouse challenge'

and there we all were on TV ! very surreal. more on main blog.

Treehouse

The treehouse withstood the hurricane.

power cut

Power cut, 3 nights. Daughter Ish cooking on a campfire outside in the hail & snow. it was as warm as in the house.

Power cut day 1

'Hurricane BB'

Its not a hurricane yet, but scots on twitter have affectionately named this storm... which i won't repeat here. I think we are moreorless in the eye of it so it's worse elsewhere. The road along the bottom of the Hill in the photo is closed due to landslip risk, the railway line is shut. some power is off, the schools are closed.

Snow

snow on hills

03rd December 2011

Nov30th STRIKE

November 30th Day of Action and 1 day strike against the Proposed Pension reforms.
here the Picket line at Raigmore. see main blog for more info on what the FBU did in Inverness that day.

Christmas Fair at Kelso-Ceilidh Barn.

Christmas Fair at Kelso-Ceilidh Barn. ( two of my paintings up by the stove )

Leeds- Thought Bubble

I was at Leeds, Thought Bubble sequential arts festival this weekend. a lot of crazy sites & no time for photography! More on main Blog.

Nicola Sturgeon addresses conference

Nicola Sturgeon speaking to the Womens STUC conference in glasgow.

WSTUC conference

 Baroness May Blood at the 84th Womens Scottish Trades Union Congress conference 2012

Glasgow, view from concert hall

sunset & moon rise

remember remember the 5th of November

this was one of the fireworks i set off at the Lochcarron Fireworks display. I happen to know the artist who designed this mask, who drew the book V for Vendetta which became the film, which inspired the masks adopted by the current protest movement across the world. more on my main blog.

Silly Dog

Silly Bruno. We were at a workparty at the Lochcarron Treehouse today. We had two very silly canine helpers.

end of october skies

High tide

first snows

its not a great photo, but these are the first snows I've seen locally today. a light dusting down to around 1500ft here.

Working at the Treehouse.

mellow fruitfulness

Ceangal art project

more here.

September comes around.

show opening night 19th Aug

More here.

Applecross Stag

seals

river swimming

Tree House Challenge

Lochcarron has won its bid to take part in SKY1 TV programme The great Tree house challenge. This is the site of the proposed tree house. Read more on my main Blog .

muddy deer path

Lochcarron Games 2011

Rainbow

beech tree

Elderflowers

River Carron

Bird on a wire

leafy bower

Kessock Bridge

A week away at Fire training course. daily mini-bus commute over the kessock bridge from our hotel in Inverness to the training school in Invergordon. This bridge will be having work done on it from tomorrow with limited traffic only for 8 days.

clear out

dawn

The sun rose this morning at 4.48, joined by an instant chorus of birdsong.

2D comic festival Derry

Check out my main blog for more info. This cartoon drawn by the lovely Jim Medway.

wedding ceilidh

a fantastic wedding ceilidh this weekend, incredibly hard to photograph the whirling dancers, but i like this one!  Congratulations to Gary & Mhairi . X

rain showers

Bristol Comic Expo

an alien attack & the wonderful John Higgins at work.