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Day 133
An old souvenir from Ypres
At the end of the Great War, the bereaved, mainly women, who could afford to make the journey started to visit the cemeteri...
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Day 136
Scurvy
The April showers continue to fall well past their allotted time. The scurvy grass is in full bloom at the moment and the air is heavy with its...
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Day 141
The Rhacoma root
This flowering plant is an alien to Britain, its natural distribution being along the banks of the river Volga. In the past it was th...
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Day 182
The Great British Divide
Down in the City of London the young herring gulls will doubtless be feasting on the fine remnants of Michelin-starred expens...
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Day 12
Sun and ice
'tis a miracle, the sun has been in view all day, from sunrise to sunset! At last it has turned cold and the new lochs on the golf course,...
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Day 166
Earlier today
We were very late to bed last night and I took today's photograph in the very early hours. This was the view to the north with a gatheri...
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Day 169
Arches, keystones and star fish.
I learned today of the death of an eminent ecologist; Robert Treat Paine III, April 13, 1933 – June 13, 2016 What fol...
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Day 174
The Somme
The Somme A hundred years ago tomorrow the battle of the Somme began on the Western Front. By the time that it ended, four and a half months...
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Day 27
On Golden Beach
Patterns in the sand at low tide. #afternoon #saturday #sea #sunrise #beach #january #sand
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Day 69
Marram grass under the microscope
The photograph shows a stained, thin cross section of the leaf of marram grass Ammophila arenaria. #afternoon #satur...
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Day 129
Peterhead Harbour
This is the Clasina, a beam-trawler from Grimsby, but currently berthed in Peterhead Harbour A beam trawl consists of a cone-shaped...
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Day 114
A sign of the times.
This bridge, one of three that connect our village with the links across the Foveran Burn, was gifted to the people of Newburgh i...
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Day 120
A harmelss trilobite
"After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it ge...
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Day 4
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night, the night before Epiphany, the day when the wise men visited the infant Jesus. It is also the night on which the Christma...
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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 181
Bad and good times
The first world war now seems like ancient history. But occasionally events remind us that it is still within the memory of our old...
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Day 50
Capillaries
A microscopic view of the network of blood capillaries around a small bunch of muscle fibres. The capillaries have been injected with a re...
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Day 151
The worm's eye view
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." Edvard Munch. Norwegian artist. 1863-1944 This i...
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Day 5
A day for nostalgia
Any abysmal day - dark, darker, wet and wetter. Any outdoor photograph would be a study in 500 shades of grey. Just the day to wal...
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Day 23
Alas, dear haggis
... His knife see rustic Labour dight, An cut you up wi ready slight, Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And t...
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Day 138
The plantain (not the cooking banana variety!)
The ribwort plantains Plantago lanceolata are in full flower. One of the commonest of our British wild...
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Day 172
A tale of goats and musicians
This afternoon I was rooting through a drawer full of "stuff" in search of a WW1 trench map. I failed to find the map bu...
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Day 41
A fine pair of legs
These are two of the legs of a human flea dating from the year 1843. Are you feeling the itch? #afternoon #saturday #legs #februar...
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Day 103
The photographer
On our way to Seville we spent a few hours in Ronda where I spotted a proper photographer snapping the tourists. #afternoon #sunday #...
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