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Day 91
A smelly yet beautiful plant.
The flowering currant Ribes sanguineum, which is native to North America, was introduced into cultivation by the 19th ce...
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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...
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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 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 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 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
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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...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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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#102
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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 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...
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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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