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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 21
Where old Land Rovers go to die
#afternoon #saturday #death #january #graveyard #landrover
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Day 82
To any dead officer
A cross for Good Friday and a reminder that we are in the middle of commemorating the centenary of the Great War. ........... "Goo...
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Day 47
Spider stubble
Up close and personal with a friendly spider; an arachnophobe's worst nightmare. #friday #evening #spider #february #spines #microscopy...
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Day 238
Nature's velcro
Two tiny fruits of Galium aparine, commonly known as cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky...
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Day 19
A sea potato
This is a sea potato. Sometimes called a heart urchin, and known scientifically as Echinocardium cordatum, it lives in offshore burrows i...
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Day 78
The Cloud
Apparently all of our photographs are stored somewhere in a cloud. I wonder if this is the one? #afternoon #monday #cloud #march #storage #p...
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Day 186
Great Western Road, Glasgow
#october #afternoon #monday
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Day 88
An old bird
It is extremely cold today, despite it being Summer time! Just the day for a photograph of one of my Inuit stone carvings. This one of a s...
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Day 86
The red spot
The red spot on a herring gull's beak has played an important, but controversial role in the study of animal behaviour. John Whitfield wr...
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Day 89
A sinister little flower
A couple of years ago we planted a few bulbs of the snake's head fritillary Fritillaria meleagris, a lily which is native to...
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Day 87
Weathercock opportunity
Quite some time ago the Weathercock on the village church fell off his perch. Early this morning we held auditions for his rep...
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Day 258
Life continues
Christmas is only just past but the temperature in the North of Scotlad is in the teens, the air is still and the sky is cloudless and...
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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...
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Day 32
A red squirrel's breakfast table.
#thursday #afternoon #food #february #red-squirrel
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Day 48
The end of the day
The light fades over the Foveran Burn as I walk home. #afternoon #saturday #light #burn #dusk #february #foveran
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Day 179
“The blood is the life!” ― Bram Stoker. Dracula
This evening we visited Slains Castle, the cliff-top ruin that inspired Bram Stoker to write the novel...
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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...
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Day 268
The saliva machine
Another peek down the microscope. This is a section of a mammalian salivary gland. Salivary glands are made up of secretory acini (...
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Day 83
A crucifix from far away.
And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre. And the Sunne was da...
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Day 272
An inhabitant of the glass aquarium
This is a hand-made glass model of a colonial Hydroid. It is the work of father and son Leopold Blaschka (1822-189...
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Day 189
Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney
#october #afternoon #saturday #guns #hoxa #orkeny #scapa-flow #ww11
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Day 273
My first mango
Mangoes and most other tropical fruits are now available in a supermarket near to you, but I well remember seeing, and eating, my very...
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Day 234
Barnacles
Charles Darwin is well known for his meticulous work on the biology of barnacles. The romantic in me imagines him working away happily on th...
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