Getting in the picture.

'Coheee - over here'

We have any number of excuses not to get on with all the jobs that need doing in and around the house and here is the latest one!

It's called 'getting up close and personal with the view out of the window'. I've always wanted to climb up the gorge over there. I see it every day in all weathers and colours and shades and what better time to down tools and explore than when the list of jobs is so long it goes twice round the moon and back!

We climbed up alongside the old wall

The gorge is huge. One can only wonder at the power of water and ice that caused such erosion deep into the mountain side.

An Teallach towers above our hillside. That will be a brilliant climb hopefully later in the year when the snow has gone.

 Ullapool appears as a thin white line stretching out into the water

and while the views are rich and colourful, to reach them involves much trekking over large areas of peat and bog and heather. We didn't see another living soul apart from

this little chap. I told him I'd met one of his relations over on Ullapool Hill earlier in the year.

Made it! 

Up on the top where it feels so free and the list of jobs seems so small.

and the road looks tiny and so does our car parked in the lay-by.

 Beinn Dearg

and Sgurr Mor in cloud

Phone home. What if someone should answer?  But I think it's just a photo opportunity.

'Letters' in gaelic means hillside, aptly named I think. Our house is down there nestling on the slope.

  Time to go home

Up there - where the list seemed small.

I love being up in the hills it frees my mind and puts all things back into perspective - the list may be long again,  but somehow it's more manageable