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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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Dec 26th, 2016

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Day 257 Dec 26th, 2016

19 Crimes

Another Christmas day has come and gone with much giving and receiving of gifts. My daughter's partner presented me with this excellent bott...

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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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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 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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May 8th, 2016

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Day 124 May 8th, 2016

Summer time

The sky is blue, the air is warm and Buddha has emerged from his winter quarters, it must be Summer time! #afternoon #sunday #buddha #summ...

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Jan 21st, 2016

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Day 19 Jan 21st, 2016

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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Dec 27th, 2016

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Day 258 Dec 27th, 2016

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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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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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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Jan 23rd, 2016

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Day 21 Jan 23rd, 2016

Where old Land Rovers go to die

#afternoon #saturday #death #january #graveyard #landrover

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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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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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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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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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Oct 3rd, 2016

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Day 186 Oct 3rd, 2016

Great Western Road, Glasgow

#october #afternoon #monday

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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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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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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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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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Jan 13th, 2017

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Day 272 Jan 13th, 2017

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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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 14th, 2017

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Day 273 Jan 14th, 2017

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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