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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 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 6
Wild skies and wild seas
The winter storms continue unabated #thursday #afternoon #storm #january #collieston
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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 58
How we all started off ...
Another view down the microscope, this time looking at a thin slice through an ovary. The small round structure in the cent...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 178
Meet the torturer.
Today we spent a happy few hours at Castle Fraser where the National Trust for Scotland had organised a session of Mediaeval Madnes...
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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...
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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 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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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...
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