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#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...
#269
Day 269
Trawlers in Peterhead Harbour
#afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #transport #europe #january #boat #harbour #navy #peterhead #cruise-ship...
#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...
#214
Day 214
Remembrance
Today is the day that we remember the war dead, the dead of all wars, from all nations. On such a day we can do no better than to reflect...
#275
Day 275
A silken cocoon
I first photographed this little bundle of silk attached to a dwarf willow in the late summer of 2015. I then brought it home to see w...
#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...
#331
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
#185
Day 185
Gilded by the sun
#friday #evening #sun #container #september #gilded
#271
Day 271
Just a pussy cat!
This is the skull of the sabrecat Hoplophoneus primaevus. This cat-like carnivore lived in what is now South Dakota in the Oligocene...
#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...
#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...
#323
Day 323
Dirty money!
A foul day of rain, sleet and hail. A day for indoor photography; this is a close up of shells, fashioned into shell money from the South...
#318
Day 318
Protecting the nation's fish.
Under the new Immigration Act (2017) all gulls born in the UK now have to be individually tagged so as to protect our fi...
#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...
#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...
#252
Day 252
Frankincense
Incense owns a Deity nigh Prayer and praising, all men raising Worship Him, God most high From the American carol We three Kings of Orien...
#270
Day 270
Spume
Spume - Foam, froth, frothy matter. From the Old French spume or the Middle English Spome. For example: 1440 Gesta Romanorum. For all thing that...
#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...
#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...
#229
Day 229
Let sleeping cats lie
When a chap gets to the age of15 he needs his sleep! #portrait #afternoon #saturday #cat #animal #november #child #sleep #fur #p...
#240
Day 240
What is life?
"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave." Quentin Crisp. English writer and raconteur extraordinaire. 1908-1...
#262
Day 262
Hogmanay 2016
When I was born it was a truly rich man who could have tropical orchids growing in his house. Now the country is awash with them - some...
#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...