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Well, that's another one stitched and finished... are you ready for the tapestry of a new year?

May You All Be Safe, Be Wealthy, Be Happy and Be Healthy! Thanks for sticking around.

YAM xx

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The last Last Thursday of 2021. Phew...

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

Greylag Geese.

Anyone  else glad to put this year behind them?

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 Shipping by...

HMS Blyth (M111) is a mine hunter, based at Faslane.

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 Monday's Critters

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 MOONdays

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A Peaceful and Joyful Christmas to One and All!

Saturday Symmetry 

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The Lamp of Hope...

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Let us not be churlish about Festive Thursday.

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

Heralding the onset of winter-proper and the arrival of the festive season, there cameth the Fieldfare...

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 Shipping by...

The Princess Of The Seas on a late-summer sail-by...

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 Monday's Critters

A detail from a beautifully handmade lace-work boar; a friend's mother's handiwork.

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 SUNdays

Thank goodness for flames to light the shortest day!

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 Saturday Symmetry

Festive thoughts...

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"Land really is the best art."

(Andy Warhol)

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Are winter Thursdays any better than any other?

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

A female Widgeon enjoying the chilly Clyde tide!

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 Shipping by...

Yet another tanker, light of its load... couldn't make out the name for this one, but couldn't help noticing the belch!

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Monday's Critters

...Anaconda? Grey Seal? Dog with ball..???

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

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"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."

(Jacques-Yves Cousteau)

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Pesky Thursdays bring all sorts of nonsense...

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

A solitary Eurasian Curlew, spotted by the Clyde early November. Only managed the one shot - blink and gone!

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Shipping by...

Another sighting around the time of COP26... mind you, this is seen fairly regularly along the Clyde. The boats are not permitted to submerge until the pass into the Irish Sea...

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Monday's Critters

Does this squirrel strike you as having 'tood???

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SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

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"Colours are the smiles of nature."

(Leigh Hunt)

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Thursdays are insistent. And different.

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

In one of those stretches of credulity, I offer you wings of a different variety... prior to the COP26 conference, the entire region (that is to say, anything within an hour's drive of Glasgow) was under scrutiny. This military chopper noisily circuled Dunoon for a couple of days. One wondered if a delegate or three had been getting shown 'the sights'...

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 Shipping by...

Another I couldn't make sharp enough to get the name... as you can see, weather was a major hindrance! Clearly an oil carrier lightened of its load.

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 Monday's Critters

Over on the far hill, through the window... a cold morning's graze session.

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 MOONdays

That streak up here on the right is the International Space Station zooming by on a full moon night.

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 Saturday Symmetry

Ballachulish Bridge. That's "baal-la-hhuu-lish" to you...

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"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."
(Dalai Lama)

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 Last Thursdays come as no surprise.

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

I was really hoping it was a Shag... but no, 'twas but a regular Cormorant. We used to see a lot of Shags on the shore of the Cromarty when we were younger... now they are classified 'red status' by the RSPB.

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Shipping by...

The MAGDALENA is a small general cargo ship built in 1990 and flagged under Antigua Barbuda.

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 Monday's Critters

Another peek at "Fergus" who oughtta have been named "Fiona"

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

Pictish patterns

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"The key is to keep company only with those who uplift you, 

whose presence  calls forth your best."
(Epictetus)

REMEMBERING ARTY FROM THE LLB GANG - ONE OF THE ORIGINALS...

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 Thursday. Oh yes, it is...

The Mermaid of the North.

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Wings on Wednesday -  

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

Herring Gulls are as common as sparrows around the Hutch...