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#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...
#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...
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Day 201
Cauliflower slime mould
#october #afternoon #tuesday #slimemould
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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...
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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 200
Vulcan over a strange landscape
#october #afternoon #monday #landsape #vulcan #bomber
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Day 211
Meadow waxcaps
#afternoon #tuesday #november #fungi #waxcaps
#225
Day 225
The sea and the land
#nature #afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #sunset #november #ocean #beach #horizon #dusk #atmosphere #seaside #seas...
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Day 291
Diamonds
Another fairly miserable day, the rain has stooped, the wind has dropped but the fog is as thick as fog. Another day with the microscope. The...
#297
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...
#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...
#342
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...
#215
Day 215
Mellow Fruitfulness
#autumn #afternoon #saturday #november #mellow #season
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Day 197
Wild geese
#thursday #october #afternoon #wild-geese
#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...
#191
Day 191
Dead tractor, Westray, Orkney
#october #afternoon #tuesday #tractor-orkney-westray
#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...
#261
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...
#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...
#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...
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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...
#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...