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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)















Cobra Plants

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Thursdays can sometimes be quite ordinary.

The Pentland Hills loom large as the back drop to the Edinburgh Skyline.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Eider Duck and Herring Gull.... as common as sparrows round here!

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Shipping by...

MV Skog; Barbados; 1991; cargo; 99m; 3728t.

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Monday's Critters

This is Licky the Lucky Puppy who escaped the IKKY SHOPPE....&*>

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SUNdays

Smile among the pine trees.

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Saturday Symmetry

Chinese gardens always have such natural symmetry. There is an art to the laying of the stones.

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"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
(Richard Bach)

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Thursday - and as the kids in UK chant.. remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot... (see the whole thing here)

Not fireworks. Lights at the new Forth Bridge building site taken at night, driving by. 

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

 Today's the day... am flying to OZ for a few weeks.

This is a scanned print - and a very poor one sorry... but couldn't resist the symbolism!

Kookaburras 

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Shipping by...

Royal Princess; Bermuda; 2013; Cruise ship; 330m. 12512t.

These beasties are so tall, the cut off the television signal... no kidding.

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Monday's Critters

I take of for OZ on Wednesday morning.  I shall be going to stay with Remus.

Well... I'll be staying with my Aussie Sri Lankan 'family' and Remus is the furson there; so I'll be staying with Remus. This piccie was taken on my last stay two years ago. You'll be seeing up to date and grown up Remus in the New Year!

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SUNdays

Dawn light revealed the incoming sky-subs...