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#321
Day 321
St George's day 2017
Here is St George dispatching his dragon on the back of a silver Victorian crown coin. Made in 1893 from an ounce of silver it wa...
#350
Day 350
That time of the year ....
Halloween is almost upon us and the Grim Reaper is on the prowl. Best keep a low profile! #october #outdoors #afternoon #ev...
#205
Day 205
Twisted
#morning #wednesday #november
#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...
#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...
#296
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...
#302
Day 302
The Texas bluebell
Still enjoying myself with focus stacking. This is a front and back view of Lisianthus flowers. Eustoma russellianum grows naturall...
#311
Day 311
A Nguzunguzu
It's very cold today, just the day for a nostalgic trip to the South Seas. This carving is a modern version of a Nguzunguzu, a war canoe...
#327
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...
#194
Day 194
Dingwall war memorial WW1
#october #afternoon #sunday #memorial #ww1 #dingwall
#242
Day 242
Darkness
"The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed." Bill Bryson #nature #friday #afternoon #landscape #sky #clouds #clou...
#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...
#289
Day 289
The Constant Gardener
Nicer Newburgh is a small group of people who maintain our village's flower tubs and troughs and communal planting areas. This i...
#324
Day 324
Super trawlers
Another wander around the ever-interesting harbour at Peterhead. This morning the place was packed with fishing boats presumably taking...
#215
Day 215
Mellow Fruitfulness
#autumn #afternoon #saturday #november #mellow #season
#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 #...
#294
Day 294
The end of the world ...?
Mrs. Bundy: I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world. Melanie Daniels: These weren't a few b...
#337
Day 337
Early morning chemistry
This morning the youngest Talpid had a great time exploring the thixotropic properties of a mixture of cornflower and water. G...
#282
Day 282
Waves of existence
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Chief...
#286
Day 286
The Doomsday Clock
From this morning's BBC website: "Scientists say the world has edged closer to apocalypse in the past year amid a darkening securit...
#300
Day 300
Hot air
It's looking a bit wild in the south. I think it must be due to all the hot air being generated in Westminster, with a bit extra from Edinburg...
#352
Day 352
The Jewish quarter Budapest
#afternoon #old #vintage #house #road #monday #color #street #city #urban #graffiti #wall #architecture #building #novembe...
#274
Day 274
Global trade
Spanish lemon. South African orange. Italian alabaster. British black velvet. As seen through a Japanese Camera, processed on an American...
#235
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...