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#93
Day 93
The Dahlia Anemone
We spent much of the day at the splendid marine aquarium at Macduff. This is the colourful Dahlia Anemone Urticina felina. We think...
#100
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...
#118
Day 118
May showers
A heavy shower of rain over the lake at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire. #afternoon #lake #monday #rain #shower #may #haddo-house
#151
Day 151
The worm's eye view
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." Edvard Munch. Norwegian artist. 1863-1944 This i...
#217
Day 217
The day of the super moon
It looks as if the super moon is going to be well hidden behind the clouds tonight. So, all I can give you is a view of the...
#248
Day 248
A fine December day!
Bright, sunny and warm; surely it can't be nearly Christmas? The photograph speaks for itself, interesting clouds near to sunset....
#269
Day 269
Trawlers in Peterhead Harbour
#afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #transport #europe #january #boat #harbour #navy #peterhead #cruise-ship...
#267
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...
#290
Day 290
Another look down the microscope
Another day of foul weather, another session peering down the microscope. The photograph shows the tip of the "tongue...
#291
Day 291
Diamonds
Another fairly miserable day, the rain has stooped, the wind has dropped but the fog is as thick as fog. Another day with the microscope. The...
#294
Day 294
The end of the world ...?
Mrs. Bundy: I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world. Melanie Daniels: These weren't a few b...
#330
Day 330
Welcome!
Is it a prison? A military bunker? A bank? No, it's the Church of Scotland. A sad sign of the times we live in. The church has been forced to...
#44
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...
#72
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...
#75
Day 75
Weighing in the pre-digital age.
In this increasingly digital age there is probably an app for all conceivable tasks. How things have changed in my li...
#119
Day 119
New life
A happy family of Canada geese. enjoying the warm sunshine. #afternoon #tuesday #canada #may #scotland #geese #goslings
#134
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...
#222
Day 222
Pea brained?
Biologists have devoted untold thousands of hours of effort in the field and in the lab. and have used powerful computers to show that an...
#225
Day 225
The sea and the land
#nature #afternoon #landscape #tuesday #water #sea #sky #sunset #november #ocean #beach #horizon #dusk #atmosphere #seaside #seas...
#305
Day 305
The old Peterhead town house
Peterhead's town house was erected in 1788 replacing two earlier tollbooths, the first of which had been used as an infir...
#310
Day 310
Hazel flowers The flowers of the hazel tree appear very early in spring, before the leaves. Each tree produces both male flowers and female flowers. T...
#326
Day 326
Yellow
We humans have eyes that can detect just a portion of the wavelengths of radiation that illuminate our world. Thanks to the gizmos that are bui...
#333
Day 333
Rheum
The impressive flower spike of Rheum palmatum 'Atrosanguineum', a relative of our old friend rhubarb. #afternoon #monday #garden #leaf #flower #...
#345
Day 345
Dracula country
This afternoon we walked along the cliffs to the eery ruins of Slains Castle, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some say that...