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#280
Day 280
Our Collider
Much impressed with the results coming from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN a group of people from our village decided to have bash at...
#322
Day 322
It's a bit grim today!
#afternoon #monday #clouds #spring #castle #storm #april
#328
Day 328
Red
Another look at the world as it might appear were we only able to see but a single colour, the rest being rendered black and white. Today, red tul...
#53
Day 53
Snow is in the air.
We woke to a covering of snow, but most of it soon melted. By the look of the sky there is more to come! #thursday #afternoon #clo...
#264
Day 264
A career in mud?
"They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies." Orson Welles #nature #afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #s...
#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...
#160
Day 160
A Scottish Lake.
Scotland has lots of lochs, but very few lakes; this is one of them, the Lake of Keithfield, which sits in the policies of Haddo Hous...
#231
Day 231
A bargain!
Do you fancy owning a castle? If so, then this might well be what you are looking for. Knockhall, our village castle, is up for sale at the...
#6
Day 6
Wild skies and wild seas
The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston
#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...
#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...
#285
Day 285
A wild, wild day
#thursday #afternoon #night #dark #sky #clouds #january #astronomy #light-effect
#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;...
#16
Day 16
Mud, water and ice
"Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea." Great Expectations. Charles D...
#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...
#287
Day 287
Through the microscope
It is a miserable day here today. A day to spend time peering into the microscopic world. The photograph shows part of the foot...
#304
Day 304
Love is in the air.
Stony Owls Strix petrophilus, a rare species confined to Northern Scotland, are very long-lived; this pair set up home with us in...
#12
Day 12
Sun and ice
'tis a miracle, the sun has been in view all day, from sunrise to sunset! At last it has turned cold and the new lochs on the golf course,...
#17
Day 17
Patterns in the sand
Sand patterns on Newburgh beach #afternoon #monday #beach #january #sand #patterns #newburgh
#67
Day 67
If you go down in the woods today ...
The fungi are pretty thin on the ground at this time of the year. All I could find this morning was this little...
#76
Day 76
A flower called testicle
It doesn't seem very long ago that to see a tropical orchid was a rare privilege; now, of course, the garden centres and supe...
#79
Day 79
The Harkand Da Vinci
There were some impressive ships in Peterhead this morning including this, the Harkand Da Vinci. Built in 2011 in South Korea and...
#250
Day 250
The gull on the bridge on the river Ythan
This is the black headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus. It is only black-headed in the breeding season and...
#302
Day 302
The Texas bluebell
Still enjoying myself with focus stacking. This is a front and back view of Lisianthus flowers. Eustoma russellianum grows naturall...