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Day 145
Jutland
A poppy for the 2551 German and 6094 British seamen who died in the North Sea at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. #morning #sunday #germany #may...
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Day 146
Recycling
We bought our old slow cooker 37 years ago. Recently it has started to overheat and so we we have just taken delivery of a new one; I doubt...
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Day 147
Dr Auzoux's Cockchafer
It being the month of May, photographs of May bugs Melolontha melolontha (a beetle a.k.a. the cockchafer, billy witch, and span...
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Day 148
A desert oasis.
July 1918. A SPAD XIII, of the 95th Aero Squadron, flies high over a desert oasis somewhere in the Middle East. Well, perhaps not! #af...
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Day 149
The Quincunx
A good friend and colleague, now sadly departed this earth, used to much enjoy an after-dinner search for obscure words in the Oxford Eng...
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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...
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Day 151
The worm's eye view
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." Edvard Munch. Norwegian artist. 1863-1944 This i...
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Day 152
The cormorant maternity ward
Another beautiful day here today, just the day for a dander along the sea cliffs. The cormorants are still sitting on the...
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Day 153
The leaning monument of Foveran
This monument in the Foveran graveyard is looking very precarious, to my mind dangerously so. Many older monuments, of...
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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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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 157
No Gift on earth Pure Water can excel
Today, the national celebrations have started to mark our Queen's official 90th birthday, which is tomorrow. Thi...
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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 159
An anther
A pollen machine. #morning #sunday #red #anther #june #pollen #hippeastrum
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Day 160
A Scottish Lake.
Scotland has lots of lochs, but very few lakes; this is one of them, the Lake of Keithfield, which sits in the policies of Haddo Hous...
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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...
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Day 162
Wet, wet, wet
A photograph, taken through the kitchen window, which sums up today pretty well. It has poured down all night and shows no sign of abati...
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Day 163
The dead and the cross
In pre-reformation Scotland the graves of the important might be marked with a large and elaborately carved Celtic cross. Follo...
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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...
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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...
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Day 166
Earlier today
We were very late to bed last night and I took today's photograph in the very early hours. This was the view to the north with a gatheri...
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Day 167
In the temple
Today I present you with a persimmon sitting on a rather special Fijian wooden dish, known as a daveniyaqona vakaga. The Wesleyan missio...
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Day 168
Reality
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. A quote from the Irish author Iris Murdoch (1919-1...
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