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Monday's Critters

This is the same handsome fishy who appeared a couple of weeks back. I really liked it's markings. Used the picture for reworking to put into RedBubble... watch out for it this Thursday!

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MOONdays

Have actually got more moon shots than sun-snaps, so am going to give you a two-4-one deal &*>

Upsizing the second one so that you can look closely... two more bright specks are there. Jupiter and Venus!

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Saturday Symmetry

There's a system to the mayhem.

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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stands upright again when the storm has passed over."
(Aesop)

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It's Last Thursday of the month. Things take a walk on the wild side...

Actually, this is entirely natural and out of camera... a macro of reflections on wind-rippled water. The blue is the sky mirrored!

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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 Ringed Plover,still on the lookout.

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Shipping by...

The Saga Pearl; Malta; 1981; cruise ship; 164m; 2952t.

Sailed in early one morning, sailed out again later that day... but couldn't see her for the fog! Glad I rose to meet her!

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Monday's Critters

We passed each other walking at Bowmore Botanic Gardens. Her name is Vashti. 

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SUNdays

Just a bit of fun for you today.

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Saturday Symmetry

Entry hall of the hothouses at Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh... so very Victorian!

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"Since Love grows within you, so beauty grows. For Love is the beauty of the soul."
(St Augustine)

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Another Thursday... what's different today?

In Honour of Pastor Goose, Blogville's Professor of Stickology

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Jackdaws play on the June winter breeze.... yep it was coooooollllddd....

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Shipping by...

MV Ayress; Domenica; 1979; cargo; 80m. 1600t.

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Monday's Critters

In the hothouses at the Edinburgh Gardens there are numerous carp. 

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SUNdays

Five minutes before this shot, I kid you not, it had been snowing. It was June. The sun broke the cloud and this vista on the Ardentinny - Loch Eck road presented itself. 

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Saturday Symmetry

Magnificent gates at the entry to Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh.

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"In character, in manner, in style; in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
(H W Longfellow)

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It's Thursday; you may think it an ordinary day, but round here it can take on a twist.

Sculpture at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

I'm thinking fish...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

At Rothesay castle there were a few gulls nesting. This one was way up high on the dovecote - yet had not used one of the ready made 'caves', preferring, it seems, the al fresco shelf!

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Shipping by...

MV Burgtor; Antigua & Barbados; 1989; cargo; 87m; 3432t. Behind, the Cal-Mac ferry service Wymess Bay - Rothesay (Isle of Bute) runs to time.

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Monday's Critters

A wether contemplates lost chances...

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SUNdays

Sunlight through a giant leaf... sometimes it is the simple things which delight.

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Saturday Symmetry

Bridges are always good for a bit of symmetrical flow!

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"A picture is the expression of an impression. 
If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognise it?"
(Ernst Haas)

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New month, new Thursday; what's a-happening?

Amorphophallus Titanum; the world's largest flower. Also one of the most difficult to ever get to flower. This was at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and I made a trip specially to see it!

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Ringed Plover... on a mission?

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Shipping by...

The SV Alba Venturer; Greenock; training yacht; 20m.

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Monday's Critters

This was taken on that one beautiful day back at the start of June when I visited Bowmore Botanic Gardens. At the pond there was no sign of fish... but plenty tadpoles!

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SUNdays

Been a shortage of the bright stuff lately so have run out of current shots.  A recycle here, from Sandeepany Sadhanalaya... heading for evening satsang, the settingsun peek-a-booed through the Ashok trees.

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Saturday Symmetry

A garden centre visit yielded some surprising symmetry.