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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...
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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...
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Day 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
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Day 28
The Sea of Tranquility
The River Ythan meets the North Sea #afternoon #sunday #january
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Day 32
A red squirrel's breakfast table.
#thursday #afternoon #food #february #red-squirrel
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Day 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology
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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...
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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...
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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...
#37
Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
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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
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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...
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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...
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Day 41
A fine pair of legs
These are two of the legs of a human flea dating from the year 1843. Are you feeling the itch? #afternoon #saturday #legs #februar...
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Day 42
A fleshy pair of legs
Another dip into the micro world. This is a pair of prolegs of a currant moth caterpillar which met its end in 1876 when it was...
#43
Day 43
An antique diamond beetle
Another day, another peek down the microscope. This is a close up view of the iridescent surface of the elytra (wing case) o...
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Day 44
Diamonds are forever
A 3 mm long diamond beetle, mounted on a microscope slide, a survivor from the days that Queen Victoria was on her throne. #after...
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Day 45
Magnifying the past
A view down the microscope of a fragment of woven linen cloth used to wrap the mummy of a hawk in Ancient Egypt, probably around 1...
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Day 46
Jelly lugs
These "ears", or lugs as we call them in these parts, are the fruiting bodies of the fungus Auricularia auricula-judae, commonly known as j...
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Day 47
Spider stubble
Up close and personal with a friendly spider; an arachnophobe's worst nightmare. #friday #evening #spider #february #spines #microscopy...
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Day 48
The end of the day
The light fades over the Foveran Burn as I walk home. #afternoon #saturday #light #burn #dusk #february #foveran