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#14
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...
#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...
#107
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...
#101
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...
#236
Day 236
A story of tallow, rifles and banknotes.
Beef and mutton tallow (rendered beef or mutton fat) are causing problems for the British once again. Back in...
#25
Day 25
Scottish tattie for sale
Photographer Kevin Abosch has sold a photograph of an Irish spud on top of a black background for 1 million euros. The photog...
#54
Day 54
Cut to the bone
This is a very, very thin slice of bone, stained with silver salts, as seen down the microscope. Bone consists of multiple microscopic...
#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...
#110
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...
#283
Day 283
To be afraid, or not to be afraid?
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." Alexander the...
#17
Day 17
Patterns in the sand
Sand patterns on Newburgh beach #afternoon #monday #beach #january #sand #patterns #newburgh
#18
Day 18
A cockle shell
A shell of the common cockle Cerastoderma edule on Newburgh beach. #afternoon #wednesday #shell #january #cockle #mollusc
#53
Day 53
Snow is in the air.
We woke to a covering of snow, but most of it soon melted. By the look of the sky there is more to come! #thursday #afternoon #clo...
#70
Day 70
Beach combing
The two shell valves of a common cockle, Cerastoderma edule, cast up on the fore-shore. #afternoon #sunday #beach #march #newburgh #cock...
#64
Day 64
We are all in it together!
The austerity measures inflicted on us by the kindly Mr Osborne and his various Old Etonian chums, are working wonders and...
#93
Day 93
The Dahlia Anemone
We spent much of the day at the splendid marine aquarium at Macduff. This is the colourful Dahlia Anemone Urticina felina. We think...
#28
Day 28
The Sea of Tranquility
The River Ythan meets the North Sea #afternoon #sunday #january
#47
Day 47
Spider stubble
Up close and personal with a friendly spider; an arachnophobe's worst nightmare. #friday #evening #spider #february #spines #microscopy...
#118
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
#183
Day 183
Banged up
We spent the afternoon at our area's latest tourist attraction - Peterhead Convict Prison. Peterhead Convict Prison was built around 1888 an...
#85
Day 85
A colonial animal
Another photograph of a marine Bryozoan, possibly Flustra foliacea although I'm not sure. Bryozoans are tiny animals that belong to...
#96
Day 96
The blue narcissus
A couple of days ago my grandson was asking about how plants suck up water from the soil. To try to answer the question, at least i...
#112
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...
#22
Day 22
Returning to Nature
#afternoon #sunday #january #decay #derelict