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#332
Day 332
Wet wort
The haar (sea fog) came in overnight and is still with us, creating attractive droplets on the plants in the garden, including this St John's...
#339
Day 339
Alas poor peony
The peony is dead, the hungry fly rejoices! A tiny detail in the great food web of life #nature #afternoon #food #sunday #meat #textur...
#336
Day 336
The Great Citrus Plague
The Citrus still speak in hushed tones about that dark day, back in the mists of time, when the great plague struck. It had al...
#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...
#340
Day 340
The long winding road to who knows where.
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Lutwidge Do...
#338
Day 338
Darwin's Berberis
The colourful berries of Berberis darwinii. Charles Darwin came across this bushy and attractive plant in 1835 in Chile during the v...
#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...
#341
Day 341
Renaming
I'm all in favour of changing the common names of plants and animals to reflect the times in which we live. So, I suggest that henceforth the...
#343
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...
#348
Day 348
An indoor rock-pool
It is horribly wet today and so I have resorted to creating an indoor rock-pool, based on a ceramic dish made by Lotte Glob, and t...
#346
Day 346
Hard won fish
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep;...
#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...
#347
Day 347
A box of Precious Promises.
My wife is a great hoarder, from a line of great hoarders, and an unfailing source of intriguing objects. Today, I bring y...
#349
Day 349
The Shiprow, Aberdeen
This street art is near the docks in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the work of Alice Pasquini who, according to Prof. Google is a mu...
#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...
#352
Day 352
The Jewish quarter Budapest
#afternoon #old #vintage #house #road #monday #color #street #city #urban #graffiti #wall #architecture #building #novembe...