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Day 111
A very big bull!
Our visit to the Spanish bull-rings last week got me thinking about the ancestors of our domestic cow Bos taurus. This is a 250,000 y...
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Day 114
A sign of the times.
This bridge, one of three that connect our village with the links across the Foveran Burn, was gifted to the people of Newburgh i...
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Day 122
The mean streets
As I was enjoying my morning porridge I became aware of a commotion developing in the garden. A gang of nine male mallards had manage...
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Day 135
Requiem for a tangerine
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller. Author. 189...
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Day 150
A late arrival.
Hippeastrum is a genus of South American bulbs whose cultivars are commonly sold by florists and garden centres as Amaryllis. ProperAm...
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Day 153
The leaning monument of Foveran
This monument in the Foveran graveyard is looking very precarious, to my mind dangerously so. Many older monuments, of...
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Day 164
An Inuit carving of a walrus.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and ki...
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Day 174
The Somme
The Somme A hundred years ago tomorrow the battle of the Somme began on the Western Front. By the time that it ended, four and a half months...
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Day 181
Bad and good times
The first world war now seems like ancient history. But occasionally events remind us that it is still within the memory of our old...
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Day 193
Kirbuster Farm, Orkney
#thursday #october #afternoon #far #orkney #hoyse
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Day 223
A host of sulphur tufts
Sulphur tuft Hypholoma fasciculare mushrooms make a living by breaking down wood. They aren't fussy eaters and enjoy the stump...
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Day 235
What big teeth you have!
Two views of a tooth of Megalodon meaning "big tooth", from the Ancient Greek megas "big, mighty" and odous, "tooth". Megalod...
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Day 258
Life continues
Christmas is only just past but the temperature in the North of Scotlad is in the teens, the air is still and the sky is cloudless and...
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Day 260
Continuing the tradition.
We have just been to see our younger granddaughter performing in the chorus in the pantomime Dick McWhittington at His Majes...
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Day 261
Darkness
Here in the Northern hemisphere the days are getting longer by the day. Up at Pond Inlet in Baffin Island the Inuit people are eagerly lookin...
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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 325
A mini halibut fish
This 2 inch long carving of a a halibut fish (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) was made by an Inuit craftsman. The interest lies in the...
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Day 331
A pot from the land of the rising sun
#afternoon #food #sunday #breakfast #sun #cup #tea #plate #meal #healthy #bowl #japan #pot #may #porcelain
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Day 11
The loneliness of the long distance pathemaker
Scottish Natural Heritage are improving one of the heavily used paths on the Sands of Forvie Reserve. T...
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Day 22
Returning to Nature
#afternoon #sunday #january #decay #derelict
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Day 32
A red squirrel's breakfast table.
#thursday #afternoon #food #february #red-squirrel
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Day 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology
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Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
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Day 57
The bridge over Britain's shortest canal
This morning I headed to Peterhead harbour, always a source of something interesting. It was as cold as Hell...
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