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Dec 16 2024
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At the top of the steps

Sunday 15th December 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,861)

Mrs Tiggywinkle, maybe, 15/12/24

These are the steps leading down past our allotment, which is on the right, behind the hedge. This porcelain figurine took up residence there a few months ago, thanks to persons unknown, and now seems quite at home. I’m saying it’s Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. Tiggywinkle, but C says: “that’s not a hedgehog, it’s a cat. Or a bear.” Well, whatever: none of these species wear clothes and carry around watering cans, but that’s anthropormorphism for you I suppose.

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Dec 01 2024
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Dove (with evil eye?)

Saturday 30th November 2024, 2.45pm (day 4,846)

Dove, 30/11/24

Doves have been a religious symbol for thousands of years: Christianity just adopted a tradition that had begun in Mesopotamia (according to Wikipedia, which of course is right about everything). If you ask me, though, this one has the evil eye; zoom in a bit and you’ll see what I mean.

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Nov 25 2024
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Diversity of beetroot

Sunday 24th November 2024, 2.50pm (day 4,840)

Beetroots, 24/11/24

These various beetroot all came out of the ground within a couple of feet of each other. I’m sure they were all from the same pack of seeds…. I like the diversity of colour, also that this shot does imply they had all been in the ground ten minutes before it was taken: which was, more or less, the case. I think some pickling is in order.

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Nov 19 2024
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The seeds hang on

Monday 18th November 2024, 11.05am (day 4,834)

Sycamore seeds, 18/11/24

I assume these are sycamore seeds, and so I think they’ve missed their chance to spiral down through the air and find fertile ground on which to start producing more sycamores. I like this shot because of the vivid green contrasting with the dead brown, but posting this the following morning I already know that green is not featuring any longer in the local palette (because it’s snowed, basically). Winter is here.

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Nov 17 2024
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Serenity

Sunday 17th November 2024, 10.25am (day 4,833)

Serenity, 17/11/24

Clare has just said: “That name really doesn’t suit anything else about that picture, does it?” And this observation doesn’t even account for the way the dog started snapping at the swans a few minutes later. But that’s why I chose the shot.

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Nov 10 2024
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Very late blackberries

Sunday 10th November 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,826)

Late blackberries, 10/11/24

I’m very sure this is the latest in any given year that blackberries have featured on this blog. They really should be gone by now, and the majority of them are, having long reduced themselves to shrivelled, dusty-looking remnants. But for some reason or other, these ones are hanging on in there. I wouldn’t eat them, though.

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Oct 28 2024
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The Thames at Hurley Lock

Sunday 27th October 2024, 1.25pm (day 4,812)

Cormorant and yacht, 27/10/24

Though we have been staying in London over the weekend, this part of the Thames is further upstream, just past Marlow, where the river forms the Buckinghamshire/Berkshire border for a while. I am very happy with this shot, as it turned out just as was hoped when I pressed the shutter. It seems to sum up two things about the Thames at this point — the wildlife and natural qualities are pretty good, and there’s certainly a lot of blatant displays of wealth around.

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Oct 21 2024
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Ladybird on table

Sunday 20th October 2024, 3.35pm (day 4,805)

Ladybird, 20/10/24

It’s just a ladybird, off for a walk. They can fly, they just seem to prefer walking. Another shot used mainly because the focus came out right, and the shot therefore ended up as intended.

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Oct 20 2024
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Poppies (Welsh)

Saturday 19th October 2024, 4.05pm (day 4,804)

Poppies, 19/10/24

A very pleasant day today, and these caught the light perfectly. And I got them in focus, too: there’s quite a long zoom being deployed here.

This is one of those occasions where a whole new location (the 479th, in fact) gets on the blog with a shot that could be taken anywhere. These poppies are currently flowering behind one of the stands of Brickfield Rangers FC, who play on the outskirts of Wrexham in north-east Wales, a town that had previously not offered up a picture in thirteen-plus years, and may not do so again.

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Oct 18 2024
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Textures

Thursday 17th October 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,802)

A hidden corner of campus. This shot has no deeper meaning, I just like the textures, of trunk, undergrowth, the wall. Although maybe that stuff on the wall is mould, but then again, you should see our bathroom wall.

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