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Day 66
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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Day 116
Dead wood and sea milkwort
This little plant is sea-milkwort Glaux maritima, which lives in sand and shingle near to the high tide mark. At the end of...
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Day 8
The swede and tree
Following the recent floods on the Ythan river Newburgh beach is covered in debris, including uprooted trees and swedes washed out...
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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...
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Day 73
The blue button
Commonly known as the blue button, Porpita porpita is a marine organism. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,...
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Day 137
Lion dancing in Newburgh
Big day today - the village gala. All the usual events, a tent with cakes and teas, a bouncy castle, singing, violin playing,...
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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...
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Day 30
The Radiance and the cherub
Old Scottish gravestones are often carved with symbols of our certain mortality and possible immortality. The reminders of...
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Day 52
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Well, the pebbles and sand are clearly mineral. But what of the branching object that has been cast up on the beach? At...
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Day 156
Fox and cubs
This is an uprooted plant called Pilosella aurantiaca. Commonly known as fox-and-cubs, orange hawkweed, tawny hawkweed, devil's paintbrus...
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Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
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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...
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Day 81
We are surely doomed!
I popped out very early this morning to attempt to photograph the Moon and Jupiter with my pocket camera. Just as I pressed the...
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Day 84
The Zenith
This small, very small, boat although registered in Peterhead is currently hauled out at the harbour of Port Errol at Cruden Bay. The verti...
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Day 117
The Fox and Box
When all inspiration has deserted me, what better than a still life of the skull of a red fox, sitting on a Shaker maple-wood box? The...
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Day 26
Flowers for the dead.
Scattering flowers on the grave of the newly buried is an ancient tradition. This Victorian statue in Inverurie graveyard shows...
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Day 49
The Battle of Verdun
The battle of Verdun, which started 100 years ago today, was one of the great battles of the first world war, fought between Fran...
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Day 108
Homeward bound
All too soon we are back on the aeroplane, heading back to to a cold Scotland. I couldn't help but think of all those poor bulls that s...
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Day 7
One I prepared earlier
We humans are not the only ones suffering the results of the current inclement weather. Hundreds of little auks Alle alle, a se...
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Day 43
An antique diamond beetle
Another day, another peek down the microscope. This is a close up view of the iridescent surface of the elytra (wing case) o...
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Day 71
The crocus
Three winters ago our village gardening group spent several very muddy days planting 1000s of crocus bulbs. We are now reaping the benefits...
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Day 102
A Spanish Donkey
We are in Spain, for the first time in our lives. Our first stop was at Mijas with its fleet of donkey taxis. I must say that donkeys...
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Day 122
The mean streets
As I was enjoying my morning porridge I became aware of a commotion developing in the garden. A gang of nine male mallards had manage...
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Day 140
A day out on Royal Deeside
We had a castle day today. First to Drum Castle, only to find that it was closed! Then, another 4 miles up the Dee valley t...
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