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#312
Day 312
The lone bait digger
The beach was empty this afternoon apart from this one sea angler digging up lugworms for use as bait. #afternoon #landscape #wat...
#218
Day 218
Autumn on Royal Deeside
The policies of Crathes Castle on Royal Deeside are at their Autumn best. #autumn #afternoon #tuesday #november #colours #cast...
#332
Day 332
Wet wort
The haar (sea fog) came in overnight and is still with us, creating attractive droplets on the plants in the garden, including this St John's...
#290
Day 290
Another look down the microscope
Another day of foul weather, another session peering down the microscope. The photograph shows the tip of the "tongue...
#223
Day 223
A host of sulphur tufts
Sulphur tuft Hypholoma fasciculare mushrooms make a living by breaking down wood. They aren't fussy eaters and enjoy the stump...
#255
Day 255
ils ne passeront pas!
They shall not pass, well not without first offering up a mince pie. More seriously, "ils ne passeront pas" were the final words...
#204
Day 204
Autumn
#afternoon #tuesday #november
#203
Day 203
Fractal geometry
#october #trees #afternoon #saturday #clouds #fractals
#195
Day 195
Whisky Barrels
#october #afternoon #monday #whisky #scotland #barrels #cooperage
#258
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...
#272
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...
#276
Day 276
Requiem for a dead Geranium
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light sh...
#95
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...
#188
Day 188
Lion's mane jelly fish
#thursday #october #afternoon #jellyfish #jelly
#231
Day 231
A bargain!
Do you fancy owning a castle? If so, then this might well be what you are looking for. Knockhall, our village castle, is up for sale at the...
#250
Day 250
The gull on the bridge on the river Ythan
This is the black headed gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus. It is only black-headed in the breeding season and...
#190
Day 190
Marwick Head, Orkney
#october #afternoon #monday #orkney #kitchener #marwick
#243
Day 243
Roman suace
"What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." Marcus Terentius Varro. Roman author. The sauce that Marcus Varro had in mind would...
#256
Day 256
Safely delivered
And sche bare hir first borun sone, and wlappide hym in clothis, and leide hym in a cratche, for ther was no place to hym in no chaum...
#304
Day 304
Love is in the air.
Stony Owls Strix petrophilus, a rare species confined to Northern Scotland, are very long-lived; this pair set up home with us in...
#308
Day 308
Golfers be afraid, be very, very afraid!
Our village has a fine, traditional links golf course. This is an area of rough; as rough as rough gets. #aft...
#94
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...
#97
Day 97
Two old rocks
It is cold and it has been raining for much of the last 24 hours. A day to think of warmer times! When on holiday I always bring back a...
#305
Day 305
The old Peterhead town house
Peterhead's town house was erected in 1788 replacing two earlier tollbooths, the first of which had been used as an infir...