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Day 190
Marwick Head, Orkney
#october #afternoon #monday #orkney #kitchener #marwick
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Day 185
Gilded by the sun
#friday #evening #sun #container #september #gilded
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Day 213
Here there be dragons!
The Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis is a large and ferocious species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rin...
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Day 227
A different kind of mushroom.
I picked up this dead coral over 40 years ago on the Astrolabe reef in the Fijis. Measuring about 10 inches across it is...
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Day 265
Rattling
The ultimate treat, getting to rattle Grandpa's rattlesnake rattle! #portrait #afternoon #wednesday #people #photography #hair #happiness #wo...
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Day 313
The complexity of life.
Living things are always complex structures. This is a slice through a Brassica tuber showing its complicated anatomy. Languag...
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Day 321
St George's day 2017
Here is St George dispatching his dragon on the back of a silver Victorian crown coin. Made in 1893 from an ounce of silver it wa...
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Day 335
Decaying beauty
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. Siegfried Sassoon. English warrior and poet. 1886-1967 #nature #friday #color #flower #art #rose #des...
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Day 347
A box of Precious Promises.
My wife is a great hoarder, from a line of great hoarders, and an unfailing source of intriguing objects. Today, I bring y...
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Day 13
Defending the beaches
An echo of war among the sand dunes behind Newburgh beach. This brick and concrete pillbox was built in 1941 to help hinder any...
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Day 52
Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
Well, the pebbles and sand are clearly mineral. But what of the branching object that has been cast up on the beach? At...
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Day 59
A visit to Kinnaird lighthouse.
A trip North today, to Fraserburgh, to the The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses at Kinnaird Head. I particularly enjoyed...
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Day 84
The Zenith
This small, very small, boat although registered in Peterhead is currently hauled out at the harbour of Port Errol at Cruden Bay. The verti...
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Day 90
Enjoy them whilst you can!
These are the black winter buds of the ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior). Sadly these magnificent trees are in great danger of...
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Day 94
Genetic Modification made easy.
When I was but a lad all that I wanted was a chemistry set. Time has moved on and we have recently bought a "Beginners...
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Day 95
The art of scything
Nicer Newburgh is a small group of people who maintain our village's flower tubs and troughs and communal planting areas. This is...
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Day 98
A happy accident
This morning I was at Haddo House, our local stately home. The photograph shows part of the newly gilded gates that lead into the Had...
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Day 106
A Moorish door
I do so like a good door and this one, in the old Mosque at Cordoba, was particularly impressive. #afternoon #wednesday #door #april #m...
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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...
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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...
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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 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 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 171
A dark, dark day.
Just before 6 o'clock this morning I was awoken by a loud roll of thunder and rain of biblical proportions. I switched on the televi...
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