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Day 274
Global trade
Spanish lemon. South African orange. Italian alabaster. British black velvet. As seen through a Japanese Camera, processed on an American...
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Day 297
Elephant skin
I have a face like the behind of an elephant. Charles Laughton. English actor. 1899-1962 It might look like elephant skin but in reality...
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Day 342
Nature's Garden
Rosebay willow herb and meadow sweet on the slacks between the coastal sand dunes #outdoors #nature #afternoon #landscape #color #wedn...
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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 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...
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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...
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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...
#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...
#344
Day 344
A pebble
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting mysel...
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Day 200
Vulcan over a strange landscape
#october #afternoon #monday #landsape #vulcan #bomber
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Day 215
Mellow Fruitfulness
#autumn #afternoon #saturday #november #mellow #season
#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...
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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...
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Day 352
The Jewish quarter Budapest
#afternoon #old #vintage #house #road #monday #color #street #city #urban #graffiti #wall #architecture #building #novembe...
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Day 197
Wild geese
#thursday #october #afternoon #wild-geese
#209
Day 209
Now! Now!
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the...
#310
Day 310
Hazel flowers The flowers of the hazel tree appear very early in spring, before the leaves. Each tree produces both male flowers and female flowers. T...
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Day 191
Dead tractor, Westray, Orkney
#october #afternoon #tuesday #tractor-orkney-westray
#279
Day 279
The tetrapylon of Palmyra
More bad news from Palmyra, the ancient Roman city in the Syrian desert. Militants from the Islamic State group have destroy...
#322
Day 322
It's a bit grim today!
#afternoon #monday #clouds #spring #castle #storm #april
#207
Day 207
Stones and a living stone
#friday #afternoon #november #stone #lithops
#251
Day 251
Myrrh
Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed in the stone-cold tomb From the...
#335
Day 335
Decaying beauty
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Siegfried Sassoon. English warrior and poet. 1886-1967 #nature #friday #color #flower #art #rose #des...
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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...