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Day 181
Bad and good times
The first world war now seems like ancient history. But occasionally events remind us that it is still within the memory of our old...
#114
Day 114
A sign of the times.
This bridge, one of three that connect our village with the links across the Foveran Burn, was gifted to the people of Newburgh i...
#34
Day 34
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...
#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...
#59
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...
#9
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 #...
#2
Day 2
Winter green
Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses
#11
Day 11
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...
#65
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...
#76
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...
#226
Day 226
A selfie with my good friend Bale
#selfie #autumn #nature #afternoon #landscape #wednesday #sky #yellow #november #gold #grain #field #straw #countrys...
#159
Day 159
An anther
A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum
#6
Day 6
Wild skies and wild seas
The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston
#20
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...
#39
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...
#46
Day 46
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...
#105
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...
#127
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...
#139
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...
#167
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...
#106
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...
#113
Day 113
A German prisoner of the Great War
As our commemoration of the Great War continues, a perspective from the German side. In the newspapers you read: ‘P...
#163
Day 163
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...
#38
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