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#121
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...
#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...
#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...
#52
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...
#73
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,...
#116
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...
#137
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,...
#37
Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
#156
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...
#30
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...
#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...
#49
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...
#140
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...
#26
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...
#84
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...
#108
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...
#117
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...
#122
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...
#155
Day 155
The $2000 dollar question
When I last studied genetics, quite a few moons ago now, it all seemed quite straightforward, with Gregor Mendel growing wri...
#8
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...
#40
Day 40
Tough little flowers!
The wind is howling and the rain is lashing down but the newly emerged female Hazel flowers are hanging on for grim death. Not a...
#102
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...
#158
Day 158
Pine cones, apples and pineapples
In Late Middle English pineapple denoted a pine cone. For example in the 13th century De Proprietatibus Rerum by Bar...
#43
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...