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Day 308
Golfers be afraid, be very, very afraid!
Our village has a fine, traditional links golf course. This is an area of rough; as rough as rough gets. #aft...
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Day 97
Two old rocks
It is cold and it has been raining for much of the last 24 hours. A day to think of warmer times! When on holiday I always bring back a...
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Day 190
Marwick Head, Orkney
#october #afternoon #monday #orkney #kitchener #marwick
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Day 307
Food waste
Today was a lovely sunny day and should have presented lots of photographic opportunities, but I failed to find them. I did however, find s...
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Day 309
The Tamarind
“Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me...
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Day 329
Serenity
Our family Buddha has returned to his summer residence following his winter holiday in the garden shed. I live in daily hope that some of his...
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Day 196
The Westray Wifie
#october #evening #tuesday #orkney #westray #wifie
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Day 192
Texel sheep in Orkney
#october #afternoon #wednesday
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Day 299
The woman who was buried twice!
This morning I took Mrs Talpa and her friend to the nearby market town of Inverurie where they were to receive their a...
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Day 326
Yellow
We humans have eyes that can detect just a portion of the wavelengths of radiation that illuminate our world. Thanks to the gizmos that are bui...
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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...
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Day 304
Love is in the air.
Stony Owls Strix petrophilus, a rare species confined to Northern Scotland, are very long-lived; this pair set up home with us in...
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Day 334
My, that is a whopper!
From this morning's Aberdeen Press and Journal: "A £50million project to develop a north-east harbour to boost the town’s econo...
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Day 351
The gull on the bridge on the river Ythan
A remarkably tame black-headed gull. #portrait #outdoors #nature #afternoon #bird #wednesday #animal #wild #...
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Day 94
Genetic Modification made easy.
When I was but a lad all that I wanted was a chemistry set. Time has moved on and we have recently bought a "Beginners...
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Day 98
A happy accident
This morning I was at Haddo House, our local stately home. The photograph shows part of the newly gilded gates that lead into the Had...
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Day 222
Pea brained?
Biologists have devoted untold thousands of hours of effort in the field and in the lab. and have used powerful computers to show that an...
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Day 284
Life at the harbour
When photographic inspiration is seriously lacking I tend to gravitate to Peterhead harbour where I can always find something of i...
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Day 295
In the dunes and on the beach
The mouth of the Ythan estuary with its surrounding sand dunes is a pretty idyllic place. #outdoors #nature #afternoon #...
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Day 320
Home!
A detail of the Collieston harbour wall at low-tide. What you see is the whole world for a group of small sea-snails. When the tide is out they...
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Day 221
Shaggy parasol mushroom
#nature #friday #afternoon #food #november #close #vegetation #mushroom #shaggy #fungus #parasol #mould
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Day 287
Through the microscope
It is a miserable day here today. A day to spend time peering into the microscopic world. The photograph shows part of the foot...
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Day 293
The bow of the Lunar Bow
Another visit to Peterhead harbour on a lovely sunny afternoon. This is the bow of the Lunar Bow, a large pelagic fishing ves...
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Day 313
The complexity of life.
Living things are always complex structures. This is a slice through a Brassica tuber showing its complicated anatomy. Languag...
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