Todd Warner, the Chicago banker who built the new and elegant Links House Hotel across the street said that when you turn off A9 onto the Evelix Road towards Dornoch, time slows down.
He is right. Time just flows more slowly here in Dornoch. I like that right now.
Royal Dornoch is closed for maintenance. So today Mike high-tailed it north 20 minutes to Brora, the course with cows, gulls and sheep on it. Some greens are surrounded with just plain wires strung 18 inches off the ground, to keep the livestock from roughing up the greens.
We have been playing Qwirlke alot. I think the overall score is 5-4.
We read.
And talk.
And walk.
This morning I got the notion to make the original King Ranch Casserole. Remember Lady Bird Johnson's? Except no cans of soup in it. Not much Mexican food up here. And I found a cappucino semi-freddo recipe from Nigella Lawson.
Photos posted today are of Tarbet Ness walk yesterday.
Vocabulary moment. A Loch is a lake. A Ness is a nose-like object. So Loch Ness is a lake with a projection resembling a nose? And Tarbet Ness is the pointy nose end of the peninsula.
Firth is a large sea bay. Dornoch Firth is bay of the North Sea between Dornoch and Tarbet Ness.
So these photos are of Tarbet Ness, and you look over the Dornoch Firth back at Royal Dornoch. Tarbet Ness has a lighthouse. Lots of photos in last year's blog entry.
The textures. Walking on asphalt, then on the soft grass, hard rock, small pebbles, sand, heather roots, path worn bare. Gorse pricking your shins.
And Mike walks out FARTHER!
Fear of heights. I overcome my fears to bring you photos.
It is at least a 30 mile drop.
:)
Back to the carpark and our little red sedan.
He is right. Time just flows more slowly here in Dornoch. I like that right now.
Royal Dornoch is closed for maintenance. So today Mike high-tailed it north 20 minutes to Brora, the course with cows, gulls and sheep on it. Some greens are surrounded with just plain wires strung 18 inches off the ground, to keep the livestock from roughing up the greens.
We have been playing Qwirlke alot. I think the overall score is 5-4.
We read.
And talk.
And walk.
This morning I got the notion to make the original King Ranch Casserole. Remember Lady Bird Johnson's? Except no cans of soup in it. Not much Mexican food up here. And I found a cappucino semi-freddo recipe from Nigella Lawson.
Photos posted today are of Tarbet Ness walk yesterday.
Vocabulary moment. A Loch is a lake. A Ness is a nose-like object. So Loch Ness is a lake with a projection resembling a nose? And Tarbet Ness is the pointy nose end of the peninsula.
Firth is a large sea bay. Dornoch Firth is bay of the North Sea between Dornoch and Tarbet Ness.
So these photos are of Tarbet Ness, and you look over the Dornoch Firth back at Royal Dornoch. Tarbet Ness has a lighthouse. Lots of photos in last year's blog entry.
Look who came out to greet us in the carpark!
Now, when you see these photos, realize this walk was sounds and textures as well as sights.
Sounds of birds, cows mooing, sheep baaing, RAF fighter jets from Lossiemouth doing practice runs up high and skimming the ocean's surface. You hear them after they are past you, they go so fast so close. And you hear the sounds of the waves, the sounds of the rocks being swept in and back out of the wave channels.
The textures. Walking on asphalt, then on the soft grass, hard rock, small pebbles, sand, heather roots, path worn bare. Gorse pricking your shins.
Hello Mike!
I turn back to take a photo facing south, towards Lossiemouth...
And Mike walks out FARTHER!
I turn again towards Lossiemouth, the sun is spectacular on the water. And THERE'S MIKE! What a rock hopper.
Fear of heights. I overcome my fears to bring you photos.
It is at least a 30 mile drop.
:)
Back to the carpark and our little red sedan.
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