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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...

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 Shipping by...

Coming in heavy...

...going out light.

The ALFA BALTICA   is a crude oil transporter built 2015 and flagged out of the Bahamas.

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Monday's Critters

Another one of bees at work - we know them to bee as buzzy as ants, right...

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 SUNdays

Rannoch Moor as seen from a speeding vehicle. 

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 Saturday Symmetry

If you must have a waste outlet, at least make it decorative...

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"An understanding of the natural world and what is in it is a source, not only of great curiosity, but great fulfilment."
(David Attenborough)

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This Thursday is a different one...

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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.

Grelag Geese swarm the morning sky over the Cromarty Firth. (That's the port of Invergordon up behind - the town where my father grew up.)

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Shipping by...

Just not clear enough to read the name... but structure tells me its a container ship!

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 Monday's Critters

Another beauty-shot of Gabby... water is her preferred medium!

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SUNday's

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 Saturday Symmetry

A fence on a car park in the NE of Scotland- doe I see tartan?

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"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. "

(Gerard De Nerval)

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 Thursdays are insistent...

Rigs at rest on the Cromarty Firth.

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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.

The sighting of a robin, even in summer, inevitable brings thoughts of Christmas!

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Shipping by...

STEN HIDRA  is an Oil/Chemical Tanker that was built in 2007 and is sailing under the flag. of Norway.

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Monday's Critters

This sculpture at Ralia rest stop on the A9 is named "Fergus"...despite being a cow and not a bull!

(Am going to be stretching things a bit for critters for a wee while - that old complaint of lack of travel and photo ops!)