The Winter Solstice 2021 on its way

This year has moved so quickly...and its nearly over. All of us are getting older but not that much wiser!. I was hoping to get back to the hills this year with, maybe, a return visit to one of my favourites. Alas, due to various health concerns, it was not to be. Now, thankfully, they are subsiding into the great loch of time.....Let's see if we can make Creag Choinnich for this years Solstice.  

Time passes like a shadow 2021

 Time goes by so quickly these days and since the pandemic life has become somewhat restricted and complicated. However, not to be beaten, I've managed to get out and walk  the very local hills. ..just without company; apart from my new canine companion who has replaced my old pal who sadly died at the end of 2019.  

New walking 
companion

Red Deer Braemar

I must say, as we all do? I miss the company of like minded people and look forward to the day when we can get back together, as a group, to revisit some of the old paths and maybe find new ones.

We are lucky living in such a rural and isolated community which hasn't been affected as much as the larger villages and towns dotted along the more Eastern part of the River Dee. Let us hope that the vaccination program reaches us all, this year, and we can return to some kind of 'normality'...The hills are still here and will be, long after we are gone. To me, they always reflect our brief existence in the grand scheme of life on earth.

Approach Tom Anton

    

    

Morning Walk South of Braemar village

Morrone sunrise 25 January 2019

Morning Walk along the Dee January 2019

River Dee 07:50 22 January 2019

Morning January 22 2019

Winter Solstice 2018 Creag Choinnich

Moon Rise Solstice 2018

Loch Callater Saturday 11 March

A social stroll down to the Loch, Lunch at the Bothy then return in time for the Calcutta Cup 
England 61-Scotland 21...We should have gone to Lochnegar instead.!
A good, short walk with great views.

Loch Callater from the Jubilee Cairn

The start

Jubilee Cairn

Bothy on the right

The Group

The dog never misses a trick

Auchtavan Saturday 18 February 2017

The weather was on our side and it was madness not to take a quick stroll to the Historic site of Auchtavan and a lost way of life. The Cottage with the hanging lum is kept locked but the Horse Mill provided a scenic lunch stop. 
It was great to get out and have an easy walk with good company.

A pose in front of the Horse Mill

The approach to Auchtavan