There has been walking…

But I have been very busy doing other stuff as well!

So here’s a quick round up.

David and I went for a quick stroll around Altyre.

Tried to show him a track I’ve used before, but not for some time. I lost it.

Ooops!

I went back again in the snow and did a different route.

Low sun

Blair’s Loch

Altyre church

I did NOT slip on the frozen snow, just before taking this photograph

Half frozen

Broken in the storms

Frozen Blair’s Loch

Frosty oak leaves

Frosty ferns

The little blog to the right of the tree trunk in the centre of the photograph is a red squirrel. Trust me.

The site of the old curling rink has been cleared, the folly on the right

A different view of the folly

Not sure…

…what I was interested by

The old and the new estate fencing

Ha! Yes, they were shooting, but luckily I’d change my mind about my route before I came across them, going the way I should have been coming!

And I used my micro spikes!

The pond, not frozen

The swans, ready to make their new home

Snowdrops

Nice tree

Really liked that tree

Light on a nice tree

A view (after I took the path I’d intended to take with David…)

Fab bark on a silver birch

Different lighting

Remaining autumn fruit

Dava Way, nearly at the Dallas Dhu distilliary

Looking up through the branches to the blue sky

I’ve also walked home from Forres a couple of times by my alternative route (instead of the cycle path all the way)

A pointless gate

The pointless gate fastened with barbed wire?!

Part of the Chapleton flood alleviation scheme

More of the flood alleviation scheme

And then the weather got horrible and the camera went away

I do not know…

…I found half a ski with a wooden block screwed onto it

Looking south along the Dava Way

Different lighting

Why??!!!

And there’s been walking with Laura!!

We did my Loch Romach circuit, with a bit of snow.

It was a grey day over the Moray Firth

Somewhere over there is Ben Wyvis

Slightly snowy track, but we didn’t resort to micro spikes

Laura catching me up

Some people really are that stupid

The frozen loch

Through the trees towards the other end of the loch

And then we returned to the Revack Estate for a short walk, coffee but no cake!

The view from the viewpoint

We found this unusual method of harvest…

…quite devastating

By these people

And that is about it really. Obviously, no complete write ups, but that’s because none of the walks were new.