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#231
Day 231
A bargain!
Do you fancy owning a castle? If so, then this might well be what you are looking for. Knockhall, our village castle, is up for sale at the...
#276
Day 276
Requiem for a dead Geranium
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light sh...
#308
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...
#334
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...
#95
Day 95
The art of scything
Nicer Newburgh is a small group of people who maintain our village's flower tubs and troughs and communal planting areas. This is...
#222
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...
#299
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...
#307
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...
#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...
#249
Day 249
A Merry Christmas from way up north.
Christmas greetings to you all from my favourite Inuk. The hard black steatite carving of an Inuk (man) is the wo...
#188
Day 188
Lion's mane jelly fish
#thursday #october #afternoon #jellyfish #jelly
#309
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...
#315
Day 315
The Leper Lily
#afternoon #tuesday #garden #flower #plant #spring #floral #petal #blossom #orchid #april #bloom #lily #flora #botany #lilly #fritillar...
#320
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...
#97
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...
#232
Day 232
Memento Mori
Skulls (and crossed-femurs) are common symbols on old Scottish gravestones. Some would have it that they mark the graves of pirates but i...
#287
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...
#293
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...
#346
Day 346
Hard won fish
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep;...
#351
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 #...
#196
Day 196
The Westray Wifie
#october #evening #tuesday #orkney #westray #wifie
#295
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 #...
#192
Day 192
Texel sheep in Orkney
#october #afternoon #wednesday
#190
Day 190
Marwick Head, Orkney
#october #afternoon #monday #orkney #kitchener #marwick