This site uses cookies to deliver the best possible experience. Learn more.

Talpa

Message
Scotland
#1 352/365
1 streak
#97
0
Day 97
Two old rocks
It is cold and it has been raining for much of the last 24 hours. A day to think of warmer times! When on holiday I always bring back a...
0 comments
#98
0
Day 98
A happy accident
This morning I was at Haddo House, our local stately home. The photograph shows part of the newly gilded gates that lead into the Had...
0 comments
#99
0
Day 99
A very small halibut
This is a small, 2 inch long carving of a a halibut fish (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) made by an Inuit craftsman. The interest lie...
0 comments
#100
1
Day 100
Quietly rusting away.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. William Shakespeare. Henry I...
1 comment
#101
0
Day 101
A Kelpie
On our way to Spain, via Glasgow Airport, we called in to see the Kelpies at Falkirk.To say that we were impressed would be an understatement...
0 comments
#102
0
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...
0 comments
#103
0
Day 103
The photographer
On our way to Seville we spent a few hours in Ronda where I spotted a proper photographer snapping the tourists. #afternoon #sunday #...
0 comments
#104
0
Day 104
A piece of the true cross
One of the many reliquaries in The Cathedral at Seville. This one is said to contain a piece of the cross on which Christ wa...
0 comments
#105
2
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...
2 comments
#106
0
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...
0 comments
#107
0
Day 107
The Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper was busily conducting his business outside the Cathedral in Granada. Luckily, he didn't spot us! #morning #thursday #d...
0 comments
#108
0
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...
0 comments
#109
0
Day 109
The Bard and the Saint.
We are newly returned from Spain (back blips to follow) on the day that sees the happy coincidence of St George's day and the...
0 comments
#110
0
Day 110
Back to reality
Back in Scotland I have spent the morning sorting out the photographs from our few days in Spain. Today's photograph is of bitter Sevi...
0 comments
#111
0
Day 111
A very big bull!
Our visit to the Spanish bull-rings last week got me thinking about the ancestors of our domestic cow Bos taurus. This is a 250,000 y...
0 comments
#112
0
Day 112
Bonsai horse chestnut
My Bonsai horse chestnut is now in its third year. Perhaps this summer it will flower and set fruit and then my new sport of Bon...
0 comments
#113
0
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...
0 comments
#114
0
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...
0 comments
#115
0
Day 115
The Universe.
To keep myself fruitfully occupied over these last few wet, windy and cold days I have been developing a new theoretical model of the Un...
0 comments
#116
0
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...
0 comments
#117
0
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...
0 comments
#118
0
Day 118
May showers
A heavy shower of rain over the lake at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire. #afternoon #lake #monday #rain #shower #may #haddo-house
0 comments
#119
0
Day 119
New life
A happy family of Canada geese. enjoying the warm sunshine. #afternoon #tuesday #canada #may #scotland #geese #goslings
0 comments
#120
0
Day 120
A harmelss trilobite
"After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it ge...
0 comments
Load more…
Terms of Use Privacy Policy Changelog
Made with love in Bialystok, Poland. © 2014-2024 by High on Pixels.
No users
No likes
Delete photo
This photo and all its comments will be deleted immediately. You can’t undo this action.