Roadtrip! 302mi round-trip trek up to Hopeman to see the Clasach Cove / Fault and things. Worth it. Also checked-out the new #ionity charger at Inverness. It works. Squeaked home with 15% / 35mi to spare. Sweet :) #EV #EVlife #roadtrip #scotland #geology #photos

2026-02-16 21:43:28 M1.3 Glen Dochart / Balquhidder / Killin By my maths this is right on the Killin Fault. #earthquake #seismology #nature #Scotland #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #geology #citizenscience

Garron Point, just outside Stonehaven - looking straight along the Highland Boundary Fault. Pillow lavas, metabasalts, serpentinite, chert, chlorite greenschist. One of three ophiolite zones in Scotland. Awesome. #ophiolite #scotland #geology #HighlandBoundaryFault #HBF #photography #OppoFindX9Pro

Leaf thing redux #photo #OppoFindX9Pro #closeup #perthshire #scotland #leaf #decay

Squiggle-cam! Squidge(R) 🐿️ is still going strong in the parental units' garden :) #wildlife #garden #wildlifecam #squirrel #redsquirrel #scotland #perthshire

Snowy mountains - the morning stroll view across Strathearn to Glen Turret #perthshire #strathearn #OppoFindX9Pro #photo #scotland #landscapephotography

Today we are TWO!! We are officially upgraded to Dog with a capital D at long last and merited a wonky-chomp bar for breakfast. :) #GermanShepherd #Perthshire #Strathearn #Dog

Feeling all kinds of fuzzy and handsome just now :) #dog #germanshepherd #perthshire #OppoFindX9Pro #photo

Fluffy moss closeups (2) :) #OppoFindX9Pro #photography #scotland #moss #fungi #closeup #strathearn #nature

Auricularia auricula-judae - the trees have flappers! ;) #tree #fungus #strathearn #closeup #photography #OppoFindX9Pro #scotland #naturephotography

Aurora bright enough to shine through the clouds, visible by eye even with street-lights directly in the field of view :) #aurora #scotland #perthshire #auroraborealis #clouds #nightsky

Things seen on this afternoon's stroll - Johnny Mathie's path outside Auchterarder The view from the railway bridge; wet moss growing on the bridge; weird & wonderful abstract space-filling tree branch silhouette. #Strathearn #Perthshire #scotland #photos #OppoFindX9Pro

2026-01-16 03:25:52 M 6.0 - off Oregon coast Right on the Juan de Fuca & Pacific plate boundary. Beach-ball consistent with the orientation of the plate boundary faults as well. USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... #earthquake #citizenscience #geology #seismology #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

Foggy days - and nights - again :) #fog #strathearn #perthshire #scotland #weather #photography #OppoFindX5Pro

🎵And here I go again on my own Walking down the only road I've ever known 🎵 There goes Marble, back to Kia for hopefully fixing .. at last. Getting so used to the sight of it on pickup truck/lorries it's not even embarrassing any more #ev #ev6 #kia #car #fail

Jings. I do get around. Just installing #Immich and it's only indexed about 60k photos - ~20% of my collection - so far and just look at all the places I've been. Almost like I'm on a mission to know my country of choice, or something... :) #photography #scotland #geo

Massive Attack: Mezzanine Still a stunning album, ideal for listening to while processing photos. Does anyone else just sit in the dark listening to the thump-thump of the stylus beyond the end of the vinyl or is it just me? ;) #music #mood #taste

A moment above Loch Etive. Calm with the clouds and mountains around. Human influence all too obvious, from salmon fishing farms to an ugly scar of a quarry in the hillside. Sigh. Prints, cards etc: shiny.photo/gallery/inve... #photography #scoltand #landscape #nature #highlands #argyll #LochEtive

Throwback to that time in 2024 when a local wildlife park held a quiet no-fireworks Nov.5th evening complete with bonfire and I never knew what I needed to chill-out the most was to spend an entire evening watching flames flickering with dog chilling-out beside. #bonfire #chill #night #throwback

Might be the end of the SNO, especially if the forecast is to be believed. But meanwhile, light! mist! cloud! light! Tree. Stuff :) #perthshire #strathearn #winter #light #photo #scotland

Mahonia Always liked these plants - just spiky enough, funny purple fuzzy seed things. At the current phase of budding they look like a bit like oaty/barley seeds... #gardening #perthshire #scotland #closep #photo

Wanders in Winter #Strathearn #perthshire #snow #winter #scotland #photo

Few things boil my blood so much as humans who refuse to take responsibility for their dogs in public. Dogs try to attack mine. Person incapable of holding them. No apology. Just "it's snowy!!" like that excuses it. If you're the one with the dogs in public, *you* take precautions when setting out.

I'm not big into poetry but winter brings out my two favourite quotes ever 🎵 and the dream of the child is the hope of the, hope of the man (Queen, A Winter's Tale) and "to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape" (Pratchett, _Hogfather_) #poetry #winter #mood #bliss

Optimism Willow stem with well-developing buds, covered in frost. #strathearn #closeup #OppoFindX9Pro #scotland #perthshire #photos #winter #cold #frost

Cold winter belt-of-Venus dusk. My favourite :) #strathearn #dusk #beltOfVenus #twilight #winter #cold #perthshire #scotland #photos

Oh yeah - I also got a halfway tolerable view of Split Rock in Clachtoll while I was there. Knew there was something else... :) #Clachtoll #Assynt #geology #rock #light #sunset #landscape #nature #seascape #phtoography #scotland #highlands

Last of the first day A few scenes captured around town this afternoon. #dusk #sunset #strathearn #perthshire #scotland #sky #colour #silhouette #photography

Endings... of day and year Last couple of photos made on this year's Assynt trip. Loch Eileanach as dusk started and Fearden near Rhicarn by blue hour. #assynt #photography #drone #scotland #landscape #nature #dusk #mood

It wouldn't be a holiday to Assynt without some serious rockery. Here we have the Moine Thrust exposure by Loch Glencoul and Loch Eileanach surrounded by wonderful Scourian gneiss and amphibolite dykes. #assynt #geology #moinethrust #gneiss #landscape #nature #drone #photography #scotland #geopark

Tuesday's trip around Assynt involved the Wailing Widows waterfall (Eas Chranaidh)... I've been here several times but never managed the droneybird perspective on it before :) #waterfall #assynt #nature #landscape #scotland #highlands #photography

It was a day for exploring dramatic rockery (mostly Stoer sandstone formation) in brilliant light. #drone #assynt #landscape #photography #scotland #highlands #geology #clachtoll #SplitRock

The Highlands were just showing off this evening with glowing dusk light and rising fog/inversion layers :) #strathconon #scotland #landscape #twilight #nature #drone #photography

Road trip day 1: complete! #holiday #Scotland #freezing #dog

Baaaahahhahaa. From sweet cuddly innocence on the sofa to the look of betrayal :D #dog #germanshepherd #bath #hahaha #NightBeforeChristmas

Finally. Actually booked an actual HOLIDAY. First of the year. Probably also the last given it's from saturday to tuesday ;) Assynt here we come!!!! ⛰️🗻🏔️🌊 📷 😊 #holiday #assynt #scotland

Haven't been down to the well-known Frandy Tree in Glen Devon for ages. Had to be done :) #android #landscapephotography #photography #perthshire #GlenDevon #FrandyTree #Oppo_find_x9 #twilight #scotland

Local church website has no mention of Christmas services, just "special services will be shown on the Newsletter" (no link). Their FB page, nothing since Nov.10. Way to feel welcome. Not. #church #christian #fail #christmas

Feets up on sofa Enya on hifi Book in paw This is… reading, is it? 😀 #chill #relaxing #SupremeChill

A reminder for everyone getting Christmas presents… stay away from the HP merch!!! uk.news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowling-...?

This evening's geekery: 1) upgraded a colo-server - both debian/stable and debian/testing changed distro names during the dist-upgrade 2) set up auto-updating DNS in powerdns/pdns - I am my own dyndns server at last :] 3) updated 3 wireguard configs to use the new DNS name Go me! #geek #win

More of that funky nocturnal fog and light stuff :) #fog #strathearn #perthshire #scotland #night #suburbia #photography

2025-12-13 16:31:05 M1.8 Sound of Jura 26km down, quite deep #earthquake #scotland #argyll #seismology #geology #citizenscience #raspberrypi #rasbperryshake

Had to be done :) Nice bit of aurora display around 2250hr this evening #strathearn #photography #nature #landscape #aurora #auroraborealis #nightsky #milkyway #perthshire

Misty Caledonian Forest moods 🌳 😍 Also featuring the Foam of Confusion(TM) - where I once saw the foam skimming a layer of ice on the river surface, deceptively slow given the waterfalls around the corner... #GlenAffric #fog #CaledonianForest #scotland #highlands #nature #photography

Some rockery - deformed/folded micaceous psammite and amphibolite and hornblende schist (age indeterminate). #geology #rock #geologyrocks #glenaffric #highlands #scotland #nature #naturephotography

2025-12-09 12:15:34 M2.0 Ardtornish Nice to see both the P- and S-waves coming by :) Jings, I've not been out to Morvern for years. Love it out there. #geology #seismology #earthquake #scotland #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-08 14:15:10 M7.6, Hokkaido, Japan as detected in Perthshire, Scotland #earthquake #japan #seismology #geology #scotland #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-06 20:41:49 M7.0 Hubbard Glacier, Yukon Canada/Alaska border , as detected in Perthshire, Scotland #earthquake #glacier #canada #seismology #geology #nature #citizenscience #raspberrypi #raspberryshake

2025-12-05 12:13:51 M2.4 Kilchrenan/Annat, Argyll Nice clear signal with a little sigh :) #geology #scotland #argyll #earthquake #seismology #raspberrypi #raspberryshake #citizenscience #nature