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Winter green
Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses
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Day 103
The photographer
On our way to Seville we spent a few hours in Ronda where I spotted a proper photographer snapping the tourists. #afternoon #sunday #...
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Day 23
Alas, dear haggis
... His knife see rustic Labour dight, An cut you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And t...
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Day 65
Once more into the micro-world
Once more a dip into the microscopic world; this time a look at a thin slice of a thyroid gland. The mammalian thyroid...
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Day 143
The Newburgh branch line
We regret to announce that the five fifteen, from Ellon to Newburgh via Foveran Mill, is delayed at Foveran; indefinitely! Th...
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Day 9
The fabled Golden Cowrie
A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...
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Day 139
My, that's a whopper!
A fine day for a spot of ship-spotting at Peterhead Harbour. This is the very impressive Grand Canyon, registered in Panama and...
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Day 59
A visit to Kinnaird lighthouse.
A trip North today, to Fraserburgh, to the The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses at Kinnaird Head. I particularly enjoyed...
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Day 169
Arches, keystones and star fish.
I learned today of the death of an eminent ecologist; Robert Treat Paine III, April 13, 1933 – June 13, 2016 What fol...
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Day 172
A tale of goats and musicians
This afternoon I was rooting through a drawer full of "stuff" in search of a WW1 trench map. I failed to find the map bu...
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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 167
In the temple
Today I present you with a persimmon sitting on a rather special Fijian wooden dish, known as a daveniyaqona vakaga. The Wesleyan missio...
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Day 91
A smelly yet beautiful plant.
The flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which is native to North America, was introduced into cultivation by the 19th ce...
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Day 6
Wild skies and wild seas
The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston
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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...
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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...
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Day 121
Election fever
Today is election day. Here, in the People's Republic of North Alba, citizens are able to vote at the age of 8. The grandchildren are e...
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Day 159
An anther
A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum
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Day 127
The maternity ward
Back in the mid 1960s I helped to put up a couple of dozen nest boxes to be used in a University study of Starling ecology. The Uni...
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Day 166
Earlier today
We were very late to bed last night and I took today's photograph in the very early hours. This was the view to the north with a gatheri...
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Day 105
The bull-ring Seville
When in Spain. visit the bull-ring! A very impressive structure, but I'm glad that there was no fighting that day. How this utte...
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Day 226
A selfie with my good friend Bale
#selfie #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #wednesday #sky #yellow #november #gold #grain #field #straw #countrys...
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Day 106
A Moorish door
I do so like a good door and this one, in the old Mosque at Cordoba, was particularly impressive. #afternoon #wednesday #door #april #m...
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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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