Cottage Diary - Aspenwood self catering luxury Holiday Cottage overlooking Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Frosty reception.

Woke to a very chilly morning and found the cats downstairs looking out of the windows onto a frosty white garden and not too keen to go outside and check the mouse population. The temperature was minus 5c and it stayed this chilly all day. Had to go into Inverness for our Xmas wine {hoping it will last until then} and drove through some fairyland scenery. As we turned a corner in the lane a buzzard flew low across the road in front of us, the sun glistening on his cream coloured underbelly and looking out for easy prey on the white landscape. The sheep and cattle were eating the hay bales thrown out onto the crisp grass. Drove past geese standing on the frozen duck pond nearby. The sky remained cloudless and blue all day and the cold frosty air stayed nearer the ground producing some weird magical sights in the mountains near Loch Ness.

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