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Day 335
Decaying beauty
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Siegfried Sassoon. English warrior and poet. 1886-1967 #nature #friday #color #flower #art #rose #des...
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Day 345
Dracula country
This afternoon we walked along the cliffs to the eery ruins of Slains Castle, the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Some say that...
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Day 351
The gull on the bridge on the river Ythan
A remarkably tame black-headed gull. #portrait #outdoors #nature #afternoon #bird #wednesday #animal #wild #...
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Day 2
Winter green
Mosses, lichens and stones #afternoon #sunday #stones #january #lichens #mosses
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Day 4
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany, the day when the wise men visited the infant Jesus. It is also the night on which the Christma...
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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 9
The fabled Golden Cowrie
A Golden Cowrie from the South Pacific, atop an alabaster dish from Italy. #afternoon #sunday #shell #january #golden-cowry #...
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Day 14
The golden ball
The recent gales and floods have cast many strange objects onto the beach. Is this a rarely seen denizen of the deep? #friday #afterno...
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Day 17
Patterns in the sand
Sand patterns on Newburgh beach #afternoon #monday #beach #january #sand #patterns #newburgh
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Day 18
A cockle shell
A shell of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule on Newburgh beach. #afternoon #wednesday #shell #january #cockle #mollusc
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Day 20
The Scoville Scale
Today is the 151st birthday of Wilbur Scoville, the American pharmacologist who devised the Scoville scale used to measure the heat...
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Day 22
Returning to Nature
#afternoon #sunday #january #decay #derelict
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Day 28
The Sea of Tranquility
The River Ythan meets the North Sea #afternoon #sunday #january
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Day 29
Skeletal remains
Just like us, leaves have a skeleton with a beauty all of its own. #trees #afternoon #leaves #monday #death #life #february #skeleton...
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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 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology
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Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
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Day 42
A fleshy pair of legs
Another dip into the micro world. This is a pair of prolegs of a currant moth caterpillar which met its end in 1876 when it was...
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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 44
Diamonds are forever
A 3 mm long diamond beetle, mounted on a microscope slide, a survivor from the days that Queen Victoria was on her throne. #after...
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Day 45
Magnifying the past
A view down the microscope of a fragment of woven linen cloth used to wrap the mummy of a hawk in Ancient Egypt, probably around 1...
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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 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 51
Striated muscle
Our skeletal muscles, those over which we have conscious control, are made up of fine fibres. Under the microscope the fibres have a d...
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