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#40
Day 40
Tough little flowers!
The wind is howling and the rain is lashing down but the newly emerged female Hazel flowers are hanging on for grim death. Not a...
#39
Day 39
High tide
The tides are very high at the moment and this afternoon the water was backing up along the Foveran Burn and flooding the salt marsh. #thurs...
#38
Day 38
Bonsai maple
My bonsai maple has survived its 10th winter and is in bud once again. #afternoon #wednesday #winter #spring #february #bonsai #maple
#37
Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
#36
Day 36
Skull of a Sumatran rhinoceros
The smallest of all rhinos, the Sumatran rhino Dicerorhinus sumatrensis currently competes with the Javan rhino for the...
#35
Day 35
Imogen makes her entrance
Since November 2015 the UK Met Office and Met Éireann, the Irish Met Service have been running a pilot project to name wind...
#34
Day 34
The trouble with birds
I think we're in real trouble. I don't know how this started or why, but I know it's here and we'd be crazy to ignore it... The...
#33
Day 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology
#32
Day 32
A red squirrel's breakfast table.
#thursday #afternoon #food #february #red-squirrel
#31
Day 31
The land meets the sea
A lone ship passes the mouth of the Ythan river whilst en route to Aberdeen. #afternoon #wednesday #ship #february #ythan #nort...
#30
Day 30
The Radiance and the cherub
Old Scottish gravestones are often carved with symbols of our certain mortality and possible immortality. The reminders of...
#29
Day 29
Skeletal remains
Just like us, leaves have a skeleton with a beauty all of its own. #trees #afternoon #leaves #monday #death #life #february #skeleton...
#28
Day 28
The Sea of Tranquility
The River Ythan meets the North Sea #afternoon #sunday #january
#27
Day 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
#26
Day 26
Flowers for the dead.
Scattering flowers on the grave of the newly buried is an ancient tradition. This Victorian statue in Inverurie graveyard shows...
#25
Day 25
Scottish tattie for sale
Photographer Kevin Abosch has sold a photograph of an Irish spud on top of a black background for 1 million euros. The photog...
#24
Day 24
At the seaside
#afternoon #tuesday #sea #storm #january #collieston
#23
Day 23
Alas, dear haggis
... His knife see rustic Labour dight, An cut you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And t...
#22
Day 22
Returning to Nature
#afternoon #sunday #january #decay #derelict
#21
Day 21
Where old Land Rovers go to die
#afternoon #saturday #death #january #graveyard #landrover
#20
Day 20
The Scoville Scale
Today is the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacologist who devised the Scoville scale used to measure the heat...
#19
Day 19
A sea potato
This is a sea potato. Sometimes called a heart urchin, and known scientifically as Echinocardium cordatum, it lives in offshore burrows i...
#18
Day 18
A cockle shell
A shell of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule on Newburgh beach. #afternoon #wednesday #shell #january #cockle #mollusc
#17
Day 17
Patterns in the sand
Sand patterns on Newburgh beach #afternoon #monday #beach #january #sand #patterns #newburgh