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Day 195
Whisky Barrels
#october #afternoon #monday #whisky #scotland #barrels #cooperage
#215
Day 215
Mellow Fruitfulness
#autumn #afternoon #saturday #november #mellow #season
#216
Day 216
Death smiles at us all.
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Roman emperor from 161 to 180 This grav...
#221
Day 221
Shaggy parasol mushroom
#nature #friday #afternoon #food #november #close #vegetation #mushroom #shaggy #fungus #parasol #mould
#243
Day 243
Roman suace
"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." Marcus Terentius Varro. Roman author. The sauce that Marcus Varro had in mind would...
#257
Day 257
19 Crimes
Another Christmas day has come and gone with much giving and receiving of gifts. My daughter's partner presented me with this excellent bott...
#259
Day 259
A fusion of cultures.
My Christmas gift to Mrs T, a cushion, arrived this morning. It took only 2 days to get from America to London Heathrow but then...
#263
Day 263
A new hobby
A new year and I feel the need for a new hobby. I'm seriously considering Bonsai cattle. #afternoon #food #sunday #january #vegetable #bon...
#323
Day 323
Dirty money!
A foul day of rain, sleet and hail. A day for indoor photography; this is a close up of shells, fashioned into shell money from the South...
#339
Day 339
Alas poor peony
The peony is dead, the hungry fly rejoices! A tiny detail in the great food web of life #nature #afternoon #food #sunday #meat #textur...
#342
Day 342
Nature's Garden
Rosebay willow herb and meadow sweet on the slacks between the coastal sand dunes #outdoors #nature #afternoon #landscape #color #wedn...
#340
Day 340
The long winding road to who knows where.
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Lutwidge Do...
#338
Day 338
Darwin's Berberis
The colourful berries of Berberis darwinii. Charles Darwin came across this bushy and attractive plant in 1835 in Chile during the v...
#18
Day 18
A cockle shell
A shell of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule on Newburgh beach. #afternoon #wednesday #shell #january #cockle #mollusc
#40
Day 40
Tough little flowers!
The wind is howling and the rain is lashing down but the newly emerged female Hazel flowers are hanging on for grim death. Not a...
#43
Day 43
An antique diamond beetle
Another day, another peek down the microscope. This is a close up view of the iridescent surface of the elytra (wing case) o...
#45
Day 45
Magnifying the past
A view down the microscope of a fragment of woven linen cloth used to wrap the mummy of a hawk in Ancient Egypt, probably around 1...
#46
Day 46
Jelly lugs
These "ears", or lugs as we call them in these parts, are the fruiting bodies of the fungus Auricularia auricula-judae, commonly known as j...
#47
Day 47
Spider stubble
Up close and personal with a friendly spider; an arachnophobe's worst nightmare. #friday #evening #spider #february #spines #microscopy...
#58
Day 58
How we all started off ...
Another view down the microscope, this time looking at a thin slice through an ovary. The small round structure in the cent...
#70
Day 70
Beach combing
The two shell valves of a common cockle, Cerastoderma edule, cast up on the fore-shore. #afternoon #sunday #beach #march #newburgh #cock...
#73
Day 73
The blue button
Commonly known as the blue button, Porpita porpita is a marine organism. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,...
#92
Day 92
Baking day
The grandchildren are in residence - time to do some baking! #morning #tuesday #baking #april #cakes #granddaughter #grandchildren
#103
Day 103
The photographer
On our way to Seville we spent a few hours in Ronda where I spotted a proper photographer snapping the tourists. #afternoon #sunday #...