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 The final last Thursday for this bog of a year...

Slainté mhath!

I remind you all that tomorrow's post (and all subsequent posts) will arrive a bit later. Not because I had a big night, but because I wanted to simplify my scheduling regime. Cheers!

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Wings on Wednesday -

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

Blink and you'll miss it!

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 Shipping by...

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 Monday's Critters

From the Hutch's window, across the road and down a floor... 

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 MOONdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

Are we there yet..?

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 It's a Thursday, but not your run of the mill...

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Wings on Wednesday -

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

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 Shipping by...

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 Monday's Critters

Here is the final offering of the decals from the zoology building... and I couldn't leave without giving you the representative of my adopted country, the kangaroo! 

There are a few more decals on the building but obscured somewhat by foliage, so gave them a miss. They are wolf, bison and red deer.

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

All those animal decals I've been sharing on Monday's..??? Yup, they are from this building.

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There are no words... 

today we farewell father and he and mother will finally rest together.

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 Thursday - slightly lachrymose... father was in charge of constructing such as these.

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 Shipping by... and then some Wings, YAM-style... (sorry, it's funeral week and things a bit blargh)

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 Monday's Critters

...and now, my dears, the 'not a rhino but an armadillo' decal!

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

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 "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

(Omar Khayyam)

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 The Thursday Time Forgot!!!

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 Wings on Wednesday -

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

Middle of the day... and the lights are on! This Herring Gull had just finished calling the hour.

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 Shipping by...

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 Monday's Critters

A rhinoceros, looking a little reminiscent of an armadillo!

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

Dovecote in Rothesay Castle, Isle of Bute.

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 "All things are subject to decay and 

when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

(John Dryden)

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Alexander MacLean

June, 1936 - November, 2020

R.I.P. Daddy

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 Wings on Wednesday -

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

A handful this month from my recent stay over west. Lesser-black-backed Gull.

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 Shipping by...

A throwback to India - Bombay harbour.

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 Monday's Critters

...of its time... note the ropes...

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 MOONdays

The Hunter's Moon (which was the second moon of October..."Blue") It was setting. I was up at 0300h to get this!

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 Saturday Symmetry

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"Love is the answer and you know that for sure; 

Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow."

(John Lennon)

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 Can you believe it is Last Thursday already?!

...animal, vegetable, or mineral?

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

A Black-head Gull, in winter plumage.

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 Shipping by...

The Argyle and it's sister ferry, The Bute, cross ways in front of the departing container ship... and a lone yacht.

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 Monday's Critters

An Aardvark...

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 SUNdays

An Indian winter...

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 Saturday Symmetry

Atumn light silvers the glass roofing of the local shopping mall.

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 "The amen of Nature is always a flower."  

(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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 Thursdays, they ebb and flow, a weekly tide.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Now for a few images snapped on my recent respite return to The Hutch (my home, though you wouldn't know it this year...sigh...) Here, a mixture of Black-head, Herring and Lesser-black-backed Gulls and Cormorants.

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 Shipping by...

That's the ARgyle, again... passing Toward Point.

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 Monday's Critters

For the next few weeks, some new images - but of other images rather than live animals. The decals are all from the walls of the Ashworth Laboratories building at the Edinburgh University campus, which was opened in 1929. The decals (or plaques) were a commission from the sculptor, Phyllis Bone. The animals were first modelled in clay and the models then cast in artificial stone to make the seventeen plaques which decorate the exterior of the building.