28 February 2019

TAKE FOURTEEN f

Last Thursday for the second time this year.



27 February 2019

TAKE THIRTEEN f

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


Same tree as last week. Almost the same branch. Bird central.

26 February 2019

TAKE TWELVE f

Shipping by...


The Dunoon-Gourock car ferries are very reliable. Colourful, too!

25 February 2019

TAKE ELEVEN f

Monday's Critters


Neighbour Jock makes himself comfy in a sunpuddle.

24 February 2019

TAKE TEN f

MOONdays


Not quite full. Bit of cloud twixt lens and Luna.

23 February 2019

TAKE NINE f

Saturday Symmetry


..okay, it's a stretch this week. Delving deep. The window provides a nice frame for the patterning of the clouds in the full moonlight though, donchya think?

22 February 2019

TAKE EIGHT f


Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. 
(Alfred North Whitehead)



21 February 2019

TAKE SEVEN f

Thursday. It's a day like any other.


20 February 2019

TAKE SIX f

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


I have the great good fortune of being able to sit at my desk and watch the hills and the territory between here and there. One tree, in particular, seems to attract the local birdlife. This shot of a magpie is one of my better ones, showing the beauty of the iridescent feathers on wings and tail.

19 February 2019

TAKE FIVE f

Shipping by...


On the ferry over the Clyde, I spotted three ships... well - a tug, a smaller passenger ferry and a minesweeper...

18 February 2019

TAKE FOUR f

Monday's Critters


The thing with critters is that they have a habit of chasing after other critters...the human critter is at the top of the predatory pile. Not just for eating, but for "sport". A young blogger I admire recently brought to light a disturbing situation...

17 February 2019

TAKE THREE f

SUNdays


A variation on the theme of gloom that has covered our skies of late.

16 February 2019

TAKE TWO f

Saturday Symmetry


One of my 'from speeding train' shots...

15 February 2019

TAKE ONE f

No wise words today - just thanks for the joy of blogging. Today begins the seventh year of this page. The roses were a gift from a friend made through blogging. The lavender and berries from my father's garden. Thank you all for your visits and comments.

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14 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE e

Not only is it Thursday, it is the last day of my sixth year of filling this blog. 2019 is also my personal 60th year. I realised I need twenty more years to complete the alphabet. D'ya think it's in me???


13 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR e

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


Lens full-stretch and through the windscreen. It was never gonna be clean. Had to catch that heron before it took flight though!

12 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE e

Shipping by...


At Felixstowe last summer, one of the many ships spotted plying the busy waterway was the "Francop". She was familiar to me, as she has been photographed from the Hutch a couple of times, plying the waters of the Clyde. She has also got quite the history.

11 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO e

Monday's Critters


Spotted on a highland doorstep. There was no answer at the door either...

09 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY e

Saturday Symmetry


Bought this camel-hide pouffe in Nigeria forty years ago. Still working hard.

08 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE e

"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."
(Voltaire)

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07 February 2019

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...what? It's Thursday. Nothing to see here...

06 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN e

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


One of the dove chicks I watched fledge last summer.

05 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX e

Shipping by...


The "Selandia Seaways" cross-channel ferry.

04 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE e

Monday's Critters


Back in the heady days of summer, this bronze hind was spotted in the foliage...

02 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE e

Saturday Symmetry


This could have been for SUNday - but the light made a symmetry of the waves in the drapes.

01 February 2019

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO e

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."
(William Cullen Bryant)


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