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Shipping by...

Couldn't sharpen the lens enough to make out the name - but a sea-going trawler by the look of her. Photo taken from the high lookout over Garelochead.

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Monday's Critters

Not the sharpest shot, but it was one-handed and hurried. It landed for the briefest of moments. Two-banded Longhorn Beetle (Rhagium bifuasciatum).

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MOONdays

0530h moonfall, April 2018.

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Saturday Symmetry

Stairs and steps are always good for symmetry - usually taken from the down looking up, but let's try it the other way today...

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"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living and dead know it not."
(Xenophon)

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The last for July. Thursday, that is.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Chaffinch - male

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Shipping by...

A schooner at rest.

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Monday's Critters

Fishing... yes it really was! The human had a rod, but Fido here was having great fun picking them up and dropping them back in again!

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SUNdays

...through a dirty window darkly...

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Saturday Symmetry

It was the shadows which warranted placement here today.

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"I see Earth. It is beautiful!"
(Yuri Gagarin)

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Blink - nope can't miss it. Thursday will be seen

A pink camellia. In monochrome.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Chaffinch - couple

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Then, that strange water-beastie was followed up by a small vessel in similar livery - again no identifier. Sigh...

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Monday's Critters

Warm spring sunshine has the hillside ponies venturing abroad without their blankets. Do we spy, yonder, the 'dark underbelly' of the Equine gang?!

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SUNdays

Yup, another one of  'those' days...

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Saturday Symmetry

Edinburgh's bridges are quite famous; not only strong engineering and function but beautiful too. 

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"Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still road-worthy."
(Zygmunt Bauman)

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Here were again. Thursday.

Making out with the macro. Hypericum seed pods.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Chaffinch - female

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That little tug had been attending the trip of this peculiar rig. Couldn't track it I'm afraid, so... any guesses? Deep sea cable maintenance maybe?

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Monday's Critters

A bright sunny day over in Tarbert. Some kind of small moth on the window caught my attention... Fudge had some trouble focusing the macro, but it was still an interesting 'take'.

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SUNdays

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Saturday Symmetry

City Art Gallery, Edinburgh... the not entrance.

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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
(Omar Khayyam)

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First Thursday of July - and half a year is gone already. I think I blinked...

...time flies.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Yup, that builders' plastic trash was these jackdaws' treasure! Lining the nest with plastic makes it wind-proof, damp-proof and a little more permanent. That the gathered straw was readily abandoned on seeing this trove shows that there were recognition and learning. It was a deliberate choice of the birds. 

(I do love my jackdaw couple. We've been together for four years now. They had been using my chimney pot... but after last year's upgrade and capping, I thought they may have gone. Boy was I glad to see them here again.)

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Shipping by...

...as mentioned last week, the tug was being followed... at a distance.

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Monday's Critters

Blackberry has joined the Hutch's stuffy-stable.

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SUNdays

Welcome to July.