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Apr 17th, 2016

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Day 103 Apr 17th, 2016

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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Jan 3rd, 2016

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Day 2 Jan 3rd, 2016

Winter green

Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses

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Feb 6th, 2016

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Day 34 Feb 6th, 2016

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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Jun 22nd, 2016

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Day 169 Jun 22nd, 2016

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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Jan 12th, 2016

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Day 11 Jan 12th, 2016

The loneliness of the long distance pathemaker

Scottish Natural Heritage are improving one of the heavily used paths on the Sands of Forvie Reserve. T...

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Jan 25th, 2016

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Day 23 Jan 25th, 2016

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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Mar 2nd, 2016

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Day 59 Mar 2nd, 2016

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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May 23rd, 2016

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Day 139 May 23rd, 2016

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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Jan 10th, 2016

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Day 9 Jan 10th, 2016

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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Jun 25th, 2016

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Day 172 Jun 25th, 2016

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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Jun 20th, 2016

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Day 167 Jun 20th, 2016

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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Jun 19th, 2016

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Day 166 Jun 19th, 2016

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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Feb 10th, 2016

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Day 38 Feb 10th, 2016

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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Nov 23rd, 2016

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Day 226 Nov 23rd, 2016

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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Mar 19th, 2016

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Day 76 Mar 19th, 2016

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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Apr 20th, 2016

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Day 106 Apr 20th, 2016

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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May 11th, 2016

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Day 127 May 11th, 2016

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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Jun 12th, 2016

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Day 159 Jun 12th, 2016

An anther

A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum

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Jan 7th, 2016

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Day 6 Jan 7th, 2016

Wild skies and wild seas

The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston

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May 5th, 2016

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Day 121 May 5th, 2016

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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Feb 18th, 2016

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Day 46 Feb 18th, 2016

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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Mar 9th, 2016

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Day 66 Mar 9th, 2016

Waste not want not

Each morning we pour part of our pensions into the bird feeders outside our kitchen window. A few seconds later the starlings arriv...

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Jun 16th, 2016

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Day 163 Jun 16th, 2016

The dead and the cross

In pre-reformation Scotland the graves of the important might be marked with a large and elaborately carved Celtic cross. Follo...

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Jan 22nd, 2016

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Day 20 Jan 22nd, 2016

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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