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Day 61
The 19th hole
The village golf course was totally deserted today, unsurprisingly given the threatening sky looming over the clubhouse. It's a big sky,...
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Day 64
We are all in it together!
The austerity measures inflicted on us by the kindly Mr Osborne and his various Old Etonian chums, are working wonders and...
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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...
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Day 71
The crocus
Three winters ago our village gardening group spent several very muddy days planting 1000s of crocus bulbs. We are now reaping the benefits...
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Day 72
In a country kirkyard
Part of the glebe behind Foveran Parish Church The slopes leading down to the Foveran Burn are currently carpeted with an ancien...
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Day 73
The blue button
Commonly known as the blue button, Porpita porpita is a marine organism. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,...
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Day 78
The Cloud
Apparently all of our photographs are stored somewhere in a cloud. I wonder if this is the one? #afternoon #monday #cloud #march #storage #p...
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Day 88
An old bird
It is extremely cold today, despite it being Summer time! Just the day for a photograph of one of my Inuit stone carvings. This one of a s...
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Day 87
Weathercock opportunity
Quite some time ago the Weathercock on the village church fell off his perch. Early this morning we held auditions for his rep...
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Day 86
The red spot
The red spot on a herring gull's beak has played an important, but controversial role in the study of animal behaviour. John Whitfield wr...
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Day 90
Enjoy them whilst you can!
These are the black winter buds of the ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior). Sadly these magnificent trees are in great danger of...
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Day 92
Baking day
The grandchildren are in residence - time to do some baking! #morning #tuesday #baking #april #cakes #granddaughter #grandchildren
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Day 96
The blue narcissus
A couple of days ago my grandson was asking about how plants suck up water from the soil. To try to answer the question, at least i...
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Day 100
Quietly rusting away.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare. Henry I...
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Day 123
An old book
This is probably the oldest thing that I possess, apart from some seriously old rocks and fossils. Printed in Edinburgh in 1666 it is a sm...
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Day 125
The transit of Mercury
By far the most interesting thing in my life today was the transit of Mercury. How fortunate we are to live at a time when it i...
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Day 134
A wide expanse of Gorse
At the moment the links are covered in acres of glowing golden gorse. In 1736 the great Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl L...
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Day 140
A day out on Royal Deeside
We had a castle day today. First to Drum Castle, only to find that it was closed! Then, another 4 miles up the Dee valley t...
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Day 152
The cormorant maternity ward
Another beautiful day here today, just the day for a dander along the sea cliffs. The cormorants are still sitting on the...
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Day 154
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Day 159
An anther
A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum
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Day 162
Wet, wet, wet
A photograph, taken through the kitchen window, which sums up today pretty well. It has poured down all night and shows no sign of abati...
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Day 168
Reality
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. A quote from the Irish author Iris Murdoch (1919-1...
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Day 175
Lame ducks
The American politician George C. Wallace once stated that "I am the lamest lame duck there could be". Well George, be warned that at the m...
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