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#349
Day 349
The Shiprow, Aberdeen
This street art is near the docks in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the work of Alice Pasquini who, according to Prof. Google is a mu...
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Day 280
Our Collider
Much impressed with the results coming from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN a group of people from our village decided to have bash at...
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Day 319
Down to the basics
This is an extreme close-up of a spurge flower. The tiny flowers, 3-4 mm in size, contain just the essential parts needed for sexua...
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Day 343
A Trowie and Parasols
A rare photograph of a Trowie. Trowies are malignant or mischievous fairies or spirits in the folklore of Scotland, particularly...
#348
Day 348
An indoor rock-pool
It is horribly wet today and so I have resorted to creating an indoor rock-pool, based on a ceramic dish made by Lotte Glob, and t...
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Day 193
Kirbuster Farm, Orkney
#thursday #october #afternoon #far #orkney #hoyse
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Day 220
Autumn colours
It's not just dying leaves that provide the wonderful warm colours of Autumn. #thursday #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #red #lea...
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Day 233
For whom the bell tolls
Nunc Lento Sonitu Dicunt, Morieris (Now this bell, tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.) From Devotions upon...
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Day 244
Betwixt Heaven and Earth
#nature #afternoon #landscape #monday #blue #moon #sky #sunrise #cloud #sunset #heaven #december #earth #dusk #light-effect
#245
Day 245
Meet the ancestors
I spent the afternoon in the old alma mater. Pottering around the Zoology Museum I bumped into one of the ancestors, admittedly a r...
#247
Day 247
The alma mater
Founded in 1495 by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland's third o...
#248
Day 248
A fine December day!
Bright, sunny and warm; surely it can't be nearly Christmas? The photograph speaks for itself, interesting clouds near to sunset....
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Day 269
Trawlers in Peterhead Harbour
#afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #transport #europe #january #boat #harbour #navy #peterhead #cruise-ship...
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Day 345
Dracula country
This afternoon we walked along the cliffs to the eery ruins of Slains Castle, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some say that...
#212
Day 212
Im Westen Nichts Neues
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to tho...
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Day 288
Gulls on the scrounge
My good friend Gulli was on guard duty on the bridge this afternoon, ably assisted by his alter ego. #nature #afternoon #bird #l...
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Day 327
Yesterday I mentioned the electronic gizmo built into some cameras which allows us some idea of what the world would look like if we could see only on...
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Day 184
Wild geese
#thursday #afternoon #sky #september #geese #skein #wild-geese
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Day 296
Not on speaking terms?
The pair of collared doves Streptopelia decaocto who share their garden with us don't seem to be on speaking terms this morning...
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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
#347
Day 347
A box of Precious Promises.
My wife is a great hoarder, from a line of great hoarders, and an unfailing source of intriguing objects. Today, I bring y...
#219
Day 219
Little known religions
High in the sand dunes the local coven of lichen worshippers have erected a shrine to one of their many goddesses. #afternoon #...
#317
Day 317
Tranquility in an increasingly troubled world
"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one da...
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Day 205
Twisted
#morning #wednesday #november