After a morning of snow flurries the sky cleared to give us a fine, if cold afternoon with a light northeaster, so it was good to see this young lady out exercising her horse. Phoebe Cash is the younger daughter of Stella and Dave Cash who run Meall mo Chridhe, a restaurant with rooms, link here. Phoebe has a wonderful hobby for a place like this, where, once away from the village, there are miles of open moorland across which she can ride.
The way the snow is lying, and the low angle of the winter sun, brings out the structure of our nearer hills - as if one can see the muscles beneath their skin. Here, the main peak of Ben Hiant, with the ridge of Beinn na h-Urchrach to the left, are both formed of a hard, intrusive quartz dolerite which sticks out above a surrounding countryside of ancient but softer metamorphic schists and gneisses. The houses of Pier Road are in the foreground, with the Coastguard Station to the right.
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