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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...
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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 278
My friend Gulli
Lovely day, cool, sunny and blue skies. On my way to the beach I had a chat with my black-headed friend. He tells me that he is much m...
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Day 277
Water
Reflections, colours and interference patterns in the water at Peterhead Harbour. The complex waves were the result of a grey seal having moment...
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Day 276
Requiem for a dead Geranium
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light sh...
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Day 275
A silken cocoon
I first photographed this little bundle of silk attached to a dwarf willow in the late summer of 2015. I then brought it home to see w...
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Day 274
Global trade
Spanish lemon. South African orange. Italian alabaster. British black velvet. As seen through a Japanese Camera, processed on an American...
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Day 273
My first mango
Mangoes and most other tropical fruits are now available in a supermarket near to you, but I well remember seeing, and eating, my very...
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Day 272
An inhabitant of the glass aquarium
This is a hand-made glass model of a colonial Hydroid. It is the work of father and son Leopold Blaschka (1822-189...
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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...
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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 269
Trawlers in Peterhead Harbour
#afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #transport #europe #january #boat #harbour #navy #peterhead #cruise-ship...
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Day 268
The saliva machine
Another peek down the microscope. This is a section of a mammalian salivary gland. Salivary glands are made up of secretory acini (...
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Day 267
A very close look at a dogfish.
Feeling somewhat under the weather I have spent the day indoors peering down my microscope and taking photographs of s...
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Day 266
Wire, shrapnel and shell splinters
The Last Laugh. Wilfred Own 'O Jesus Christ! I’m hit,’ he said; and died. Whether he vainly cursed or prayed indeed...
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Day 265
Rattling
The ultimate treat, getting to rattle Grandpa's rattlesnake rattle! #portrait #afternoon #wednesday #people #photography #hair #happiness #wo...
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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...
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Day 263
A new hobby
A new year and I feel the need for a new hobby. I'm seriously considering Bonsai cattle. #afternoon #food #sunday #january #vegetable #bon...
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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...
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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...
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Day 260
Continuing the tradition.
We have just been to see our younger granddaughter performing in the chorus in the pantomime Dick McWhittington at His Majes...
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Day 259
A fusion of cultures.
My Christmas gift to Mrs T, a cushion, arrived this morning. It took only 2 days to get from America to London Heathrow but then...
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Day 258
Life continues
Christmas is only just past but the temperature in the North of Scotlad is in the teens, the air is still and the sky is cloudless and...
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Day 257
19 Crimes
Another Christmas day has come and gone with much giving and receiving of gifts. My daughter's partner presented me with this excellent bott...
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