The October weather continues to amaze. I think the landscape where we live perhaps looks its very best on a golden Autumn day.
This is the morning view from our house, across the small loch which sits just behind us to the south. The loch supports an abundance of wildlife and is full of trout, which are happily caught by local ospreys as well as fishermen.
In all seasons of the year, the loch forms a wonderful setting for an afternoon’s circular stroll. This is the view from east to west, toward a neighbours house.
As you might imagine, the loch is one of Bruce’s favourite local haunts. Nothing makes him happier than a swim (except, perhaps, a baked potato). That’s our steading in the middle of the picture.
In the winter, the loch freezes over, and during a particularly cold snap, it is possible to walk across it. From the middle of the nineteenth century through to the middle of the twentieth, it was home to a local curling club.
This is the view back across the loch, looking north.
Reflected in the loch, the autumn landscape looked pretty incredible yesterday.
We were blown away by the colours and the light, and the stunning sight of this rainbow, behind the Campsie Fells.
I thought you might enjoy a wee Autumnal walk around the loch as well.
Absolutely stunning!
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Wow, such stunning photos! Thank you for sharing.
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Absolutely gorgeous! Perhaps a trip to Scotland in autumn is on the ticket next fall! Thank you for sharing your magical area with us. I can see how inspiring the colors are there.
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breathtaking pictures with so much depth. they remind me of oil paintings.
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l’automne est bien arrivée, avec ses couleurs et ses envies de laines.
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Gorgeous pictures. Making me nostalgic for my childhood holidays in the Trossachs. Sigh.
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Just… wow.
Took my early morning breath away…
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Those have to be some of the most stunning photos I’ve ever seen, almost too surreal to be true. That’s one talented photographer, thanks ever so much for sharing.
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Absolutely stunning!
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Wow, what a stunning vista and what beautiful images of it you have captured. The one 5th from the end reminds me of some of the landscape paintings from the Hudson River School – seriously blew me away. Not only does it make me want to visit Scotland, it makes me want to run away and live there!
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Breathtaking! Sigh…… Makes my soul homesick for that which my eyes have yet to see.
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thank you for sharing these exquisite images, kate! they absolutely transport me. xx
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Wow!
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stunning and a tiny bit jealous but thank you for sharing i just love all the developing colours, truly beautiful.
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I’m quite speechless. Your photos are so absolutely stunning; they make me want to go to Scotland right now!
Thank you so much for sharing, Kate!
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Those photos are incredible!!!
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Beautiful! I don’t think I would ever want to leave a view like that!
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I’m blown away by the photos/landscape. Thank you so much for these!
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Speechless!
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This is just heavenly! Gorgeous photos!
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Stunning photos. Clearly the setting brings great peace and joy. I can feel it too, and thank you for it.
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what a joy it must be to live surrounded by such beauty!
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This is insanely beautiful! How wonderful to have such a landscape on your doorstep. It makes me wonder why I live in the city, haha!
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Stunning, such beautiful pictures!
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my g*d you live in a Turner painting!
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Beautiful, beautiful fall and photos ~ Thanks for sharing!
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Wow that makes me homesick!!!!
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Wow!
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If you painted that people would say you exaggerated the colors. Exquisite. Hugs WAH.
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Exquisite! Thank you.
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One day I will have a chance to visit you, bring Bruce some Shmackos to go with his baked potato and go for a stroll around the lock. It would be a wonderful day.
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Beautiful!
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What a charmed life you lead! Well-deserved, I’m sure. These are lovely pictures and certainly make me want to visit Scotland again. Thank you for sharing.
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These scenes are gorgeous. I know they are a/ photographs and b/ of Scotland but the colours and sky remind me of paintings by Dutch Masters like Ruysdael and Hobbema!
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What a wonderful place to live, especially at this time of year. Lovely photos, thank you for sharing, and Bruce looks great!
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Every picture tells a story . Your photographs tell a beautiful one . The love of the landscape shines through . Thank you for sharing it with us .
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This is stunning I don’t know Joe you get any work done.
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Think I need to read more Scottish literature (I wasn’t sure what “steading” meant and
had to look it up! Your blog becomes a delightful learning experience in more ways than one!)
The landscape and photographs are gorgeous. Makes me want to visit Scotland in person.
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Lochs, lakes, ponds, rivers in autumn- mist rising, surrounded by trees with brilliant foliage, reflecting clods in the sky – I love these. With your rainbow you’ve done one better! Thanks for posting.
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Hi Kate & Tom grrreat views looking forward to enjoying them!!! Fingers crossed weather is as good! Might have a catch up?
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we are looking forward to seeing you!
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Can I come fish in your loch? It is almost beyond comprehension to live in a place like that.
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Don’t really need to make a comment after all the others, but photos are fab-u-lous!
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Long-time reader, first-time commenter. What beautiful scenery. You are very lucky to live your lives on that landscape.
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Amazing light and captured so well!
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So, magical. Would love to visit that part of the country. Do you do B&B? :)
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Absolutely stunning – some of these photographs look like oil paintings. And I am beyond jealous of your ospreys!
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Such a gorgeous place! I truly gasped when I saw looked at the pictures just now. Scotland is the home of my heart. I’ve been there several times and attended the University of Edinburgh for my junior year of college. I’ve been to the highlands and have a good friend from Stornoway on Lewis, but I have never seen the likes of this scenery at this time of year. You are blessed to live there.Thanks so much for sharing–you made my morning!!!
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I’m still writing up my blog from our cycle tour of the west coast highlands and Hebridean Islands back in July. Just finishing off my Hebridean (Shore) Hap too. We had terrible weather and it was the best holiday ever and we cycled every day and soaked up the scenery. I miss wild Scotland so much, thank you for a “fix”
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These photos are just enchanting!
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Beautiful! Amazing photography! I so hope to visit someday!
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Yes, I’d ‘bite’ for a calendar ! Those were stunning photos. You are two lucky folk to say nothing of Bruce :)
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Thank you. I made my first visit to Scotland this summer and it felt vaguely familiar, the names and places, thanks to your blog. I can’t wait to go back.
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Breathtakingly beautiful! The colours, the light, the landscape. What an experience it must be to walk out of your house and take it all in.
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Wow! Thank you
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As though you need another project to keep you busy, I vote for a calendar, too, not only one of the beautiful scenery around you, but also one of Bruce. Thanks for sharing your lovely peaceful autumn morning with us.
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I second your request for a calendar of landscapes and Bruce. Perhaps two calendars, one for each subject.
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These shots are just breathtaking, am doing some research at the moment as we would like to do a Scottish road trip next year, these photos only increase the desire to visit and explore ourselves!
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Absolutely stunning photography and scenery! Being part Scottish and never having visited your fair land, I am really itching to go see it firsthand. Is October the best time to travel there? Based on these shots, it would seem so! I had no idea that your trees have beautiful color changes this time of year, same as we do in the US. I’d wrongly assumed that everything was green there, year round. Brilliant!
And, as if I weren’t already completely enamored by him, Bruce’s love of baked potatoes is certainly another reason! My dogs have always adored them too :-)
Thank you SO much for starting off my Sunday morning with such incredible pictures!
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Kate & Tom,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful surroundings! Can truly appreciate where you and Tom receive your creative stimuli!
Looking forward to your new projects too!
Enjoying your creative life from across the pond!
Rosie
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Absolutely gorgeous!
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Kate Davies Designs wrote:
> Kate Davies posted: “The October weather continues to amaze. I think the > landscape where we live perhaps look its very best on a golden Autumn day. > This is the morning view from our house, across the small loch which sits > just behind us to the south. The loch support” >
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Truly magical start to a relaxing Sunday. Thank you!
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I will always love looking at this stunning scenery!
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It is so beautiful to see this, I can’t get enough of the stunning scenery. Thank you!
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This certainly proves the adage ” a picture is worth a thousand words”!
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I have been reflecting on a theme this morning, ‘The Still Point’. I think your images show it beautifully! It does look like a painting.
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What a visual delight to see the colours of the season. What a wonderful photographer Tom is. Thanks for sharing such beauty.
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Wow! What a beautiful place to live! Awesome pics!
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Kate, thanks so much for the walk around the loch! I know you never get tired of the views, and I wouldn’t either. Looks a fairy land!
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Absolutely stunning photos, thanks for sharing
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Thank you for the magical carpet ride. The sky, the land, the water, the crispness of the air, and the wonder of the colours of fall all around. Thank you for sharing the beauty that is around you and remind us to look for it where we are too.
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It’s a double rainbow! The (fainter) second bow is to the left in the picture, nearer the “knob” hill. Lovely pictures!
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Stunning photography! And may Bruce continue to enjoy bracing swims and baked potatoes.
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wonderful photos. A big thank you for posting. I do love being in Scotland and we haven’t made it there this year so far. I like Spring and Autumn. July and August are so wick with the dreaded midge that I stay away then.
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A huge thank you for these lovely views; I was transported!
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I think a calendar would be wonderful. (You could also include all the important knitting holidays…)
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Yes! A calendar!
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Wow, great pictures and views
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Thank you so much for sharing your home and these glorious photographs. This was a wonderful way to start the day!
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Just lovely – thank you for sharing!
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You live in a magical place.
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Very beautiful view and photos :)
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Too gorgeous! what beautiful pics! love
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So lovely! Thank you for sharing your slice of Heaven.
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Exquisite!! What a lovely, lovely place to live in.
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Oh my. Thank you for this glimmer of glory.
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I would have liked to reblog this, but it looks as if reblog has been turned off.
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Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing.
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Oh my! Absolutely breathtaking!
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Wow…this is balsam for the soul. At first I thought it was paintings. By some 18-19th century brush magician, but it’s by a 21st century photo magician instead! Absolutely lovely. Though, I wonder (as I always do when passing by absolutely idyllic places near water), how is the mozzie population? Some places here you can get your protein fix through going for a walk with an open mouth.
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no mozzies (too cold), but on a still day there are certainly lots of midges which are really just as bad.
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Too cold for mozzies in Scotland? They don’t seem bothered by that here in Norway. Finnmarksvidda (northern area) has tons despite temperatures dropping to absolutely frigid each winter. -40°C and such… But I agree, midgets are just as bad! Though as a cousin in law of mine (from Finnmark) says, we need to think about the birds. They need food too! 😆
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Gosh, I’d no idea they don’t mind the cold! But for whatever reason it’s midgies and not mozzies… it’s hard to think about the birds when surrounded by a biting cloud
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Absolutely stunning, have you and Tom ever thought of producing a calendar of these
wonder views
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So beautiful!
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Superb photography, and what a superb location :) magical!
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Scotland really is looking beautiful at the moment. Beautiful pictures Kate.
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