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Mar 21st, 2016

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Day 78 Mar 21st, 2016

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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Apr 9th, 2016

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Day 96 Apr 9th, 2016

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...

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Mar 25th, 2016

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Day 82 Mar 25th, 2016

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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Mar 29th, 2016

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Day 85 Mar 29th, 2016

A colonial animal

Another photograph of a marine Bryozoan, possibly Flustra foliacea although I'm not sure. Bryozoans are tiny animals that belong to...

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Apr 13th, 2016

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Day 99 Apr 13th, 2016

A very small halibut

This is a small, 2 inch long carving of a a halibut fish (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) made by an Inuit craftsman. The interest lie...

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Feb 19th, 2016

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Day 47 Feb 19th, 2016

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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Oct 3rd, 2016

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Day 186 Oct 3rd, 2016

Great Western Road, Glasgow

#october #afternoon #monday

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Apr 2nd, 2016

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Day 89 Apr 2nd, 2016

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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Apr 1st, 2016

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Day 88 Apr 1st, 2016

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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Mar 31st, 2016

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Day 87 Mar 31st, 2016

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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Feb 4th, 2016

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Day 32 Feb 4th, 2016

A red squirrel's breakfast table.

#thursday #afternoon #food #february #red-squirrel

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Feb 20th, 2016

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Day 48 Feb 20th, 2016

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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Dec 5th, 2016

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Day 238 Dec 5th, 2016

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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Apr 26th, 2016

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Day 112 Apr 26th, 2016

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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Mar 30th, 2016

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Day 86 Mar 30th, 2016

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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Mar 26th, 2016

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Day 83 Mar 26th, 2016

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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Apr 14th, 2016

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Day 100 Apr 14th, 2016

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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Jul 22nd, 2016

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Day 179 Jul 22nd, 2016

“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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Oct 8th, 2016

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Day 189 Oct 8th, 2016

Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney

#october #afternoon #saturday #guns #hoxa #orkeny #scapa-flow #ww11

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Jan 8th, 2017

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Day 268 Jan 8th, 2017

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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Mar 17th, 2016

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Day 74 Mar 17th, 2016

St Patrick's Day, 2016

This is the best I can do to celebrate St Patrick's Day, the handle of my blackthorn shillelagh set against a background of fal...

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Dec 1st, 2016

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Day 234 Dec 1st, 2016

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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Nov 3rd, 2016

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Day 206 Nov 3rd, 2016

Let the conker games beginAve, Imperator, morituri te salutant

#thursday #afternoon #november

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Dec 28th, 2016

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Day 259 Dec 28th, 2016

A fusion of cultures.

My Christmas gift to Mrs T, a cushion, arrived this morning. It took only 2 days to get from America to London Heathrow but then...

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