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**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 1d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

A section of Preas Loch looking rather Bob Ross-ified this morning
#Assynt

Looking straight along a stone wall, some sheep to the left and right. There's a water's edge in the middle of the image, and smeared reflections, the way Bob Ross's paintings do it, are on the water.

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 1d *

1d *

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Morning walk, and the beach is rather lovely this fine morning.
A little pollen-sneeze obligato from herself towards the end
#Assynt

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 2d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

#FensterFreitag
#Assynt

An old, derelict church. An empty window, which must once have been stunning, in the wall.

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 2d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

A gathering of off-duty little servants of St Bride, absorbing ozone along that wonderful anything-can-happen area among three, maybe four, of the classical elements, the sea, the rocks, the air and, no doubt, the ether.
#Assynt
#Birds

Numerous Oystercatchers (the Gaelic name is Gille-Bride,servants of St Bride) on a rocks, while the sea crashes behind them. Most are hunched up, perhaps a-snooze, while one or two alter position.

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 2d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Colours of the day. All change and back to normal south-westerlies this morning, but none the worse for that, bringing some fresh liveliness to life.
#Assynt

A beach scene. The foreground has reddish rocks, then a small strip of sand, then a series of small breakers showing white, then shades of turquoise becoming steely dark grey. The sky is a blueish grey

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 5d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Colours of the day
#MorningWalk
#Assynt

Looking out from the heights over the bay. The sea is shades of turquoise and blue. Seaweed forests add a darker element. The sky is blue.

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 5d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

The beach, today
#Assynt

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 5d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Herself spotted this reclining litho-mermaid, on this morning's walk. Can you see her?
#Assynt

Some large rocks in the tidal zone. In one rock pool, a rock formation, lit in a very specific way by the morning sun, looks like a woman reclining, her head to the left, supporting her head in her hand,

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 5d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Morning walk, and the sea disappears into the nothingness of the air
#Assynt

A beach in the foreground, then gentle, waveless sea. There's a slight mist way out, merging the sea and the horizon. To the right a promontory. The sky is blue

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · 6d

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

The sun dropping into the Minch beyond Stoer Bay, this evening, a welcome home after a few days away.
#Assynt

The sky fades from blue to orange at the horizon, the sun just touching the horizon. There is a small sunpath across the bay. A promontory on the distance is in silhouette

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Apr 1

Apr 1

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Morning over Preas Loch
#Assynt
#MorningWalk

A loch reflecting brightly the morning sun. A line of hills in silhouette. Above, the sun in partly cloudy skies

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Mar 30

Mar 30

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Towards the end of this morning's walk, and New Lambie and Mumsie had moved around to the other side of the house.
This is what I love about lambing time, the bond between mother and lamb, that bungee that each acknowledge, or depend on, that, if it's broken, affects us as onlookers perhaps as deeply as it affects them, but if it's maintained, as it is in this clip, fills us with contentment.
#Assynt
#LambingTime

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Mar 30

Mar 30

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

Along with the early lambs, the wild primroses seem early this year too. This water channel always grows a good crops against the sunward face, but they're really hard to photograph.
#Assynt
#BloomScrolljng

The site of the primrose, a vertical wall of a channeled watercourse, green grass beyond.

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**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Mar 30

Mar 30

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

BUT.... it seems a tup must have gone to work early last season. Here's another strangely early lamb, spotted on our morning walk. Looks only a day or two old.
#Assynt

A green field, a house in the background. A lamb stands behind its mum

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Mar 29

Mar 29

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

It's raining, and the wind is starting to get up, but we have plenty of food out for the birdie folk. Here are some of today's visitors.
The tiniest splash of yellow on the chaffinch's wing is a delight, and the reed bunting looking like a little gentleman in a dinner jacket, as well as the various tits who dart in and out for a, well, titbit, rather than staying to eat. And. of course, overseen by the ever-present bobbin.
#Birds
#Assynt

A reed bunting on the ground. It looks as though it's wearing a little dinner jacket

**Stevan** @withaveeay@mastodon.scot · Mar 29

Mar 29

Stevan @withaveeay@mastodon.scot

This is Barty the Badger's paw-work from the other night. He either decided to re-do the dry-stone wall, or went badger when it defied him - I suspect the latter.
That one large rock really is quite big, and I'll have to have a think before trying to put it back. Who knows how he got that to where it is now.
#Assynt
#Wildlife
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