A slow morning in Scottish Nature
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I've always loved the beauty of Scotland! Thank you for sharing this peaceful countryside vlog, Molly! 🥰
I'm grateful to have found your channel!
Lovely to see a natural pine forest ecosystem, I bet it smells wonderful when the sun's shining on the pine 😊
It really does! :)
Wanted to share how unexpectedly excited I got from purchasing a few fun books from the thrift shop today! I have to say your videos have inspired me to start reading as a hobby. I work full time with the homeless and it gets difficult to separate work from home. So, recalling your videos about your love of reading hit my heart and inspired me to find balance in doing something for my mental well-being. I was praying for inspiration and there you were and are! Bless you and your pup!
Aw I hope you enjoy your new reads!
yaaayyyy!!!
I love Jim Crumley’s nature books, my son bought me two of them some years ago. My son has worked as a sound engineer at the Edinburgh Book Festival for many years and said Jim Crumley was one of the nicest writers he ever met and mic’d up
Beautiful landscapes! And we have the same beetles in Poland, and I also help them to turn on the proper side :)
Aw they are so sweet!
I truly appreciate seeing the Scottish Highlands through your eyes. It’s so different than I thought.
I'm glad you enjoyed :)
The Outrun is one of my absolute favourites - there's a film coming on 27th September and I'm so excited to see it! Amy's second memoir (The Instant) also focuses a lot on urban nature as she moves to Berlin to find love, I'd really recommend that too if you haven't yet managed to pick it up 🐦
Oh thank you, I haven't read that one yet! :)
Thanks Molly, I just love The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Apparently during the war she had the Cairngorms very much to herself and she thought nothing of walking miles by herself. I have her book in my studio and I often will sit and quietly read a few passages from her book to truly escape to the mountains! Thank you for the link to A deep dive into nature memoirs. My husband is reading one about a woman who has studied the Wild Cats here in Scotland that I bought for him yesterday.
It is such a wonderful book, I'd love to re-read it :)
Always lovely to see Molly and Skye enjoying nature and exploring beautiful Scotland. Thanks 👍 for sharing this inspiring video and love 🥰 it. Love ❤ Molly.
Thanks David!
Oh my goodness so beautiful! Love Scotland so much, can't wait to go back next year. Really love your vlogs😊
Thanks for sharing the beautiful Scottish countryside Molly. So calming ❤
I'm glad you enjoyed :)
Beautiful nature. ❤ I think we have a similar wild rose here in California... My favorite scent in the whole world I decided is buddleia... and amazingly, there is some of that here in southern CA where we are, within the nature reserve. I'm also trying to grow a couple of buddleia plants in pots on my balcony. 😊❤
That is a beautiful scent :)
I want more vlogs more lengthy ones. Please share Skye food and things he uses and needs as a minimalist how do u take care of ur pet?😊
@@intentional-yo7wg agree! We need more! We are addicted 😆😍🤩
Thank you Molly for sharing a little of the Scottish landscape. Absolutely beautiful. Have a great week🩷
Aw thank you!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful walk. How I love to be surrounded by the lush greenery of trees!
You are like me I help the rolly Polly bugs when they are on their backs or lighting bugs who accidentally get trapped in the house ❤❤❤😊 thank you for a very nice video 😊😊😊
Aw that's so lovely to hear! :)
So love your videos, you are so inspiring. I have just spent a week near Beauly, and went to visit Loggie as you had recommended, thank you it was lovely
I'm glad you enjoyed your visit!
Love the slug facts - definitely would love more of this (who doesn't love being in awe of the world?!)
Lovely walk in your countryside for the first 4:45. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed! :)
Good day, Mrs. Molly. My best wishes to you.
You have a nice, cozy video blog on UA-cam. I also really, really like the countryside.
I would like to ask, to find out, if possible - you probably read books, and maybe you know, have you read the novels of the Scottish writer and doctor - Archibald Cronin? And, in my opinion, he is a very good writer. He is not as well known in the world, and in Great Britain, probably, as, for example, Stevenson and Scott, but nevertheless - his works are very interesting. A couple of years ago I "discovered" him for myself. A wonderful novel "Citadel" and so on, according to the bibliography.
Well, once again - my best wishes to you in your work, blog.
Alexander.
Loved seeing the beautiful countryside.
I'm glad :)
Watching this from Alaska. Been watching for a while, only to recently be compelled to be okay with having slow weekends. Thank you for the great follow-alongs as examples of being productive in a self-care way.
Aw I'm so glad you enjoy my content :)
Loved the tea transition! Another great and calming vlog, thank you ☺️
Aw thank you! :)
Love your vlogs so much Molly and lovely Skye x🐶
I'm so glad! :)
I loved seeing all the beauty around you! And I have never seen a black slug! Crazy! Thank you, too, for the reminder that nature can be found anywhere. So important to keep your eyes and heart open for it. Ordering a copy of The Living Mountain right now. (My library didn't have it!)
Ah there is a lot to find out about slugs! I hope you enjoy reading it! :)
Looks lovely 💛
Loved The Outrun so much! ❤
Thank you for sharing; I love your channel 🙂
Aw thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed :)
Another fantastic video Molly. Thankyou. Lee and pam Northumberland ❤ my mum has a border collie and she is also called sky. 😊
It seems to be a popular collie name! :)
It's nice you listed some nature books.ill check out sometime. Wow the Scottish Highlands are just epically beautiful. Nature can be so grand!
It really is a special place :)
I too love Nature memoirs... have read The Outrun too! And the Sea Bean too! Thinking of starting my own nature writing and have booked on a writing a workshop. SKYE is the sweetest pooch and I must plan a trip to Scotland again. Thanks Molly!
Hello Molly lovely vlog the natural pine forest is so beautiful there, l love going for bush walks here l love nature lm the same help all the bugs or crawls up again makes me feel better now they can move on too, Enjoy your week Molly an beautiful Skye 😍 😊 ❤ ♥
Really relaxing vlog thank you! It was a lovely walk, the dog roses are so pretty, one of my favourites too.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed! :)
This was a lovely video with beautiful nature and good information about related books. Thank you.
From Tennessee
What a stunning walk. Thanks so much for taking us along.
Love joining you on your nature walks
I'm glad! :)
A lovely video, thank you Molly. I really want to read all of those books now!
Haha well I hope you enjoy them! :)
The last wilderness is great ❤
More book recommendations. Loved this
I'm glad! :)
Aloha you are. My favorite channel
Aw thank you!
Thanks for sharing the absolutely lovely walk with us. Especially enjoyed your thoughts and identification of surrounding plants. Would love to see more of your walks. I too have a Border Collie. His name is Bill…named after his great, great grandfather. He is a tricolor black white and brown but you won’t notice anything but the black and white unless you looked closely and saw the brown undercoat. He also has a left china eye. Bill is 14 yo. We walk our country neighbor everyday. Durham County North Carolina USA
Bill sounds lovely :)
I want moooooooore! Make them 1 hour long ❤😅😊
Haha maybe next time! :)
@@hippyhighlandliving Yes yes yes yes!!!! ❤❤❤ even now I have your videos on play in the background while working. Your voice is sooooo soothing ❤
I love my hot tea too. Yorkshire Biscuit with soy milk for me.
Tea is a staple!
Loved the tea transition 🫖 Also I've just read the comments and I have to say I agree could we trouble you for longer vlog! Something to consider perhaps?
Thanks for helping out the sweetest bug on its back ❤❤
I will certainly try and make it happen!
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Nature looked stunning in the walk you took with your dog. I read the outrun but didn't like it that much. The only thing I appreciated was reading about Orkney, a stunning place I had the pleasure to visit. Btw, your videos always look genuine and you genuinely enjoy your slow living. Thanx Molly. Hope you have a nice week.😊
What didn't you like about the book Outrun? I haven't read it yet, but might.
@@Elizabeth-dg8dn I reviewed the book on my goodreads if you are interested in knowing the answer.
Ah I can see why that book wouldn't be for everyone. The nature descriptions were my favourite bit too! :)
Have just found your channel and love your content. 👍 I hope you don’t mind but I’ve emailed you with a book recommendation.
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I will definitely pick up a few of those books! Thank you! Do you have a favorite?
That's tough! I do love the nature of autumn :)
I'd recommend any of Robert Macfarlane's books. He is just a brilliant nature writer especially The Old Ways and Underland. Just as an aside I have just read Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell. It is a fictionalised account of the Brontes told in the voice of Emily starting with their time at Cowan Bridge and ending with Emily's demise. It is such a good book and I know you are a big fan of the Brontes especially Wuthering Heights.
A lovely vlog of the beautiful Scottish countryside thank you.
Oh these sound like wonderful books, thank you for the recommendations! :)
@@hippyhighlandliving you're welcome!
@@hippyhighlandliving I forgot his book The Wild Places. He has spent a lot of time walking and climbing in the cairngorms.
It looks beautiful and so quiet,is that because it’s midweek or are the walks generally quiet ? It’s making me definitely want to vitamin the area .
Yes its okay for you Mum to spread the blanket on the ground, find your flask and have a draught of tea but what of me,? What did you bring me to drink or am I just your companion to keep you safe from predators on two legs?
Makes me wonder at times why you take me along, except as an extended walkie. Thoughts of Skye the Border Collie.
Do you often encounter other folks on your treks with Skye? I ask because in much of the United States, dogs are not allowed to be off-leash on public land (in order to protect wildlife, to protect other people from aggressive dogs, and to prevent multi-dog altercations).
Maybe is it like Montana. You can have dogs off leash on a lot of public lands in Montana.
Dogs are allowed to be off lead in the UK. The law says they must be under control.
The reason of protecting the wildlife is fair enough, there are plenty of places in the UK where you're requested to keep dogs on lead for this reason.
Aggressive dogs are scared dogs who feel the need to front up to a perceived threat. Both these latter points are a matter of puppy socialisation to learn human and dog body language so that they're relaxed around them. Unless a dog has reason to be scared of humans or dogs because they've suffered abuse/been attacked.
Yes I do see some. I only take Skye places to places where it is safe for her to be off lead :)
I was wondering what breed Skye is? Our family has just taken in some abandoned puppies, and we’re trying to figure out what breeds they might be (they’re mixes). They look so much like Skye except that their ears flop over.
She's a border collie :)
@@hippyhighlandliving Oh, thank you!
Is it generally safe living in Scotland?
Is Skye a border collie?
Yes :)
Outrun is intense. Not the most pleasant read
Was wondering as you made your way along the trail could you smell the fresh, clean pine fragrance from the pine trees you talked about?
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