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December. Last Thursday. Last day of 2015.... HOGMANAY!!!
Boost the fires, break out the black bun, down a dram...
light the candles...!!!

May I be your 'first footer' of the etherhood! All blessings and peace be with you now and throughout 2016.

(The central candelabra in Rothesay Castle's grand hall.)

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

The Australian Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

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Shipping by... past favourites.

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Monday's Critters

Licky the Lucky Puppy who escaped the IKKY SHOPPE has an apprentice.

Eric the Guide Stuffie in training.

Licky is teaching Eric how to look out the window pathetically, waiting for my return.

I hope the guarded the flat well.

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MOONdays

That's it.

On the way out...

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Saturday Symmetry

Australian federation Architecture... one of the Scanned Prints series - taken in 1984.

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Wishing you a peaceful and joyous Christmas Day!  YAM xx

Not a Christmas Rose, but a magnolia.

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Not just any Thursday.... one more sleep till Santa! (...and YAM land's back from her OZ trip.)

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Perfect performance from this peacock.

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Shipping by... past favourites.

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Monday's Critters

We are in Christmas week.

This 'critter' fits the bill for festivity; a little led light, changing colour crystal bear used as a table decoration last Christmas.

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SUNdays

Winter sun, sepia-ed.

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Saturday Symmetry

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

The 'Granny's Cloak Moth' (Speiridonia Spectans). As big as my hand. Taken some ten years back.

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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
(Joseph Addison)

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

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Three Thursday's to year end... whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

What's your tipple?

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

The Australian Pelican... flying frigates!

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Shipping by... past favourites.

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Monday's Critters

Firmly in the land of the archive now; this scanned print is from 1977; Nigeria. I am holding a praying mantis. (May have shown this before, but hey, is your memory any better than mine?)

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SUNdays

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

A sunny memory.

Jasper Cat was born on Dec 13th 1993. He stayed with me 17 years. 

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Saturday Symmetry

Symmetry in the fields of Maharashtra.  Taken with the old Uniden handicam. The quality is as one would expect for a drive by shot from a bus moving on Indian roads...

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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
(Edgar Allan Poe)

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Thursdays bring some-zing

Well...maybe not that much zing.

More a fizzle really.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

Galahs.

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Shipping by... past favourites

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Monday's Critters

Probably didn't show this picture originally, because it was taken with the Nik when it was beginning to loose its focus.

However, the fingered fish is the star of this show...

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SUNdays

from the archives

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Saturday Symmetry

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

Symmetry in their fence, symmetry in their spots!

Taronga Zoological Park, Sydney. From the archives, as I work on some new ones!

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"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
(Thomas Edison)

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Thursday again.

Garden centres are surprising places - who new one could create art from a mess of pots?

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Australian Butcher Bird looking for breakfast.

This shot taken on last visit - there will be fresh stock arriving in the new year!

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Shipping by... past favourites

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Monday's Critters

A last look at Isaac (that's him on the right of the duo) for the year. He is enjoying being at his training foster home and has the down time to play with the family's pet collie.

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MOONdays

The moon's getting heavy... the year is waning.

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Saturday Symmetry

(c) Yamini Ali MacLean

Raindrops on marble set up symmetrical ripples.

One from the Indian archives.

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"To be wronged is nothing... unless you continue to remember it."
(Confucious)

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November's Last Thursday finds many preparing for the festivities (if not already begun). Relief is now provided...

The Victorian Urinals at Rothesay quay.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

No introductions necessary, I trust.

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Shipping by...

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Monday's Critters

Wonder if I'll see any of these fellas when I am Down Under?  

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(not so) SUNdays

The day the sky fell to earth...

The original was so close to monochrome, I decided just to finish the task...and add in a bright spot. The sun is up there somewhere, so it's not total fiction.

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Saturday Symmetry

Terracotta pots with lattice embossing caught my lens.

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"All differences in this world are of degree and not of kind 

because oneness is the secret of everything."
(Swami Vivekananda)

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Thursday is here and brings with it thoughts of the weekend.

This is the Wind Harp at Edinburgh Gardens.

It is placed in a protected area - i.e. no wind.

It is made from an ancient Wych Elm from the gardens which had to be felled due to disease.

READ ALL ABOUT IT.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds

Greenfinches cling on in high wind.

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Shipping by...

For the last few Tuesdays of the year, am going to reshare some some of my personal favourite boat and water shots.

Newhaven Harbour, Edinburgh.

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Monday's Critters

This is another from the archives. The image is ten years old. As am in OZ, thought I would share a dingo with you.

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SUNdays

...the things I do to shed a little sunshine...

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Saturday Symmetry

Gates can always be relied upon to provide an element of symmetry. These are to Inverleith park - right opposite the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

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"Hide not your talents.
They for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?"

(Benjamin Franklin)















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