Okay it is not as cold as New York, but it is not far off up here at present. When I got up the thermometer read Minus 10C when I looked at the minimum it went down to last night it was MINUS 13C , which in my books is pretty cold. In the 12 years we have been in this house our lowest recording was minus 18C, so a fair way off our coldest, but it is still pretty cold.
Of course the hills look wonderful & if only I had had my camera yesterday our Munro’s were superb, covered in snow & the sun shining down on them was magical. Went up to try getting them on my old camera & they were covered in cloud & totally not photogenic.
So I came down to 50 yards from our house & took a few shots of our little burn. At the point I photographed is a small dam, because in the past it was where some of the water was diverted another 50yds down the hill to a shed with a large concrete tank in it. this in turn was gravity fed down into the village to fill the steam locomotives with water. Now this shed is used as a hatchery for Loch Morag Brown Trout to be hatched in, before getting to a size to be returned back into the Loch.
This dam then comes over a waterfall which is frozen & as fresh water flows over the frozen water so it freezes again & gets pretty thick. The flowing water splashes up the banks producing the attached photos. .
These shots were taken with my old camera that I have not used for 8 or so years & I was surprised at just how good they turned out.
