Easter Monday trip to Attadale Gardens

 Attadale House on the road to Skye

 Andy checking the time at the giant sundial

 One of the sculptures with a bamboo background

Part of the Japanese Garden

Up in the hills

 Carole & Clive having a snowball fight

 Looking back to Stob Corrie an t-Sneachda

On the way up to Cairn Lochan

A walk up Cairngorm & beyond

 Just below the Ptarmigan restaurant where we had a very welcome coffee before the last ascent of Cairngorm mountain

 Lunch on the top

 A frozen lochan in the distance, beyond Glen Avon

Clive & Andy enjoying the snowfield

A walk up to Lurcher's crag, below Cairngorm

 Cairngorm mountain

 Approaching the Chalamaine Gap

 Atop Lurcher's crag

The last ski slope still open on Cairngorm

Nethy Bridge trip

 Tree Hugger

 Enterprising sheep outside our cottage window.

Wood ants.

Weather

 Low cloud this morning but it's mild up Flowerdale

 It's beginning to lift

Soon after, more is revealed. We're off to Nethy Bridge for a week so there will hopefully be some interesting pics when we return.

Odds & sods

 Chilli helping with the gorse removal

 Heron taking off from the ice pond

Moxy enjoying a swim