Snow

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Edit – click on the images to enlarge, i’ve figured out how to do it!

Sorry everyone, i know this place has been somewhat lonely lately. Still working through stuff and things just keep dropping on the pile accumulating… But more about that sometimes when it won’t be just an unreadable windge-fest.

On to more seasonal things.. or not, as you will see shortly 🙂 The lovely Herba and Poe have been setting monthly creative themes, which have been much fun to read and see so far. I got in late for the Oktoberfest one with a theme inspired meal of Schnitzel and potato salad but this was a no-brainer!

Herba’s monthly theme was snow 🙂

So, here it is:

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Isle of Skye – Cuillins

And you’re probably asking yourself: where??? Well, on the top of the mountains, where else! Of course, there is a bit of fog so you can’t quite see it well, so here’s some more:

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There it is, between the peeks…

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and on the tops… (yes it was raining as you see, and it rained…. and it rained and rained and rained…)

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Wet did not tarnish the beauty, at least i didn’t think it did….

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Since i am not sure you can see in any way when these were taken.. it was 2nd of June 2015…. yes, snow… in summer 🙂 Quite unusual even for the highlands and the isles, but it was 8 degrees C and snowing that weekend and the temperatures stayed that low all week.

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It had the major advantage or saving us from the highland monster – the midges- and giving us dazzlingly fresh air to inhale up and down these mountains. In spite of appearances it was not really mucky, just wet and pretty slippery. The ground is mossy and it absorbs water like a sponge. The season had been however unusually wet so there were waterfalls and ponds everywhere and you had to watch your step if you didn’t want to end up with wet ankles.

Oh and it makes for perfect weather for a wee dram 🙂

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For those still doubtful here are some wobbly speed snaps from the bus on the way around Skye 🙂 Fresh snow, our guide had been skiing there that very weekend.

But it wasn’t all grey, the very next day i was on a boat at breathtaking winds and mostly clear skies (dolphin spotting trip).

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The Cuillins in the distance and parts of the Black isle closer by.

It was Burn’s night the other day and i got email from my usual restaurants in Edinburgh with evening menu of cullen skink, haggis, cranachen and i thought of snow and Inverness and Skye and missed Scotland terribly… and had the taste of Singleton of Glen Ord in my mouth. Now i wish i had found a way to squeeze a bottle in my backpack last summer…

I just want to close my eyes and be back in the highlands, with the patches of snow in the summer 🙂

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and back to this place where i had the most amazing lunch bap with fresh crab, salmon and Scottish langoustines! It’s heaven on the palate.

21 thoughts on “Snow”

    • you’re very welcome! it is soso beautiful there, i can’t recommend it enough 🙂 I am slightly frustrated as the photos are massive! But i don’t know how to get them to be links to expand so you guys can see them bigger 😦 Any help/suggestions about how to do this in wordpress much appreciated!

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      • I don’t know! Mine automatically does that (allows you to click pictures and see a bigger version) but when I look at my settings, it’s not anything obvious. I suppose it might be a feature built into my WP theme.

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        • i know i thought it would, i need to check if they got shrunk in the upload process to the media library… and yes it might be the theme, which would be pants as i really like it 😦

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    • LOL, that’s what people say of Macbeth too, the one with Fassbander was filmed exactly there but the thing is typically you’d get bright skies and a bit of grey as well during the day and when the heather blooms all those slopes are purple coloured! I think this hits all the ways people imagine Scotland to be, but it really is only a shade of it 🙂 You are right however in that whichever season it is always in images a very romantic place 🙂 Not so much in real life where it is probably one of the most earthy, grounded places 🙂

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    • Ist schon, nicht? trozt dem Grau! muss mir mal dieses aufm Fernseher anschauen und ich werde veruschen euch noch ein paar mehr zu brigen mit anderer Gelegenheit. Muss echt rausfinden wie ich sie als Links posten kann damit ihr sie in echter Grosse sehen konnt, die Fotos sind riesig, frustrierend dass sie nur so klein zu sehen sind 😦

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    • it is, i honestly cannot even begin to say what a pale representation of reality this is… everyone should get a chance to see Scotland and the highlands one day… and it really isn’t as grey usually 🙂 Or not only grey 🙂 I so want to go back when the heather blooms, i’ve seen it on the east coast once and the image of purple hills stayed with me forever!

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      • I’ve only ever been to Edinburgh. Methinks a real Scotland visit should be in order some day… and when the heather blooms too, as I love purple!

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  6. Gorgeous photographs, Hari! I really loved seeing this because the in-laws have a family connection to Skye and hubster is very familiar with the place. In fact we are just planning a holiday on Skye for the summer (June, too). The midges are a major draw-back, I hear, but well, nothing can be worse than the sandfly plague I went through last year.

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    • ohh envious of your holiday! i so so want to go back 🙂 i think the midges are probably as bad as the sand flies but they say midges are a sure way to ensure people don’t overstay their welcome in the highlands :-p I need to go once when the heather blooms…

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