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#37
Day 37
The Brewdog brewery
#afternoon #tuesday #beer #brewery #february #brewdog
#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...
#131
Day 131
The good old days
Will this be our lot if we opt for BRexit? Who knows? I certainly don't! #afternoon #sunday #europe #future #may #lavatory #cludgie...
#92
Day 92
Baking day
The grandchildren are in residence - time to do some baking! #morning #tuesday #baking #april #cakes #granddaughter #grandchildren
#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...
#51
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...
#67
Day 67
If you go down in the woods today ...
The fungi are pretty thin on the ground at this time of the year. All I could find this morning was this little...
#45
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...
#135
Day 135
Requiem for a tangerine
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Henry Miller. Author. 189...
#7
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...
#71
Day 71
The crocus
Three winters ago our village gardening group spent several very muddy days planting 1000s of crocus bulbs. We are now reaping the benefits...
#154
Day 154
#80
Day 80
A guiding light
A view of Robert Stevenson's magnificent 1827 lighthouse at Buchan Ness, the most north easterly point on the British Mainland #aftern...
#128
Day 128
Cuckoo Flowers
The Cuckoo Flowers, a.k.a. Lady's Smock are now in flower on our rough bit of grass. The Bard mentioned them in his Love’s Labour’s Los...
#164
Day 164
An Inuit carving of a walrus.
'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and ki...
#42
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...
#150
Day 150
A late arrival.
Hippeastrum is a genus of South American bulbs whose cultivars are commonly sold by florists and garden centres as Amaryllis. ProperAm...
#165
Day 165
Strutting your stuff.
I always enjoy a visit to our local plant centre , not least because it boasts a fine collection of domestic fowl. #afternoon #s...
#180
Day 180
Castle Dracula
".... Suddenly I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined...
#119
Day 119
New life
A happy family of Canada geese. enjoying the warm sunshine. #afternoon #tuesday #canada #may #scotland #geese #goslings
#161
Day 161
A good father
Our resident blackbird is an exemplary father, spending every minute of daylight collecting food for his demanding family in the nest. B...
#224
Day 224
Strange Clouds
#nature #afternoon #landscape #monday #sky #clouds #sunset #frost #november
#115
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...
#33
Day 33
The Newburgh Venus
Picked up among the sand dunes this morning. #friday #afternoon #february #figurine #dunes #venus #newburgh #archaeology