Category: Nature
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The Wood Imp
The Grinds are home to all manner of creatures, from very popular ones to rare, and even as-yet undiscovered ones. There’s an undiscovered creature in this image. I’ve named it the Wood Imp, and it is very well camouflaged! But it’s there… its very long tail gives its presence away. The thing is, it looks…
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Caught in mid-air!
Out in the Grinds last week, this friendly chap came with me for a short part of my walk. It was as he decided to fly on his way I realised I’d missed umpteen opportunities to take a photo of him, so I quickly took these shots of him as he buzzed off into the…
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White Out!
Driving earlier this evening, I found myself in the midst of a white out. Usually, white-outs occur during heavy snowstorms, where the falling snow is so dense the volume of snowflakes obliterates the view in every direction. My white out was slightly different, as for one, it wasn’t snowing, and two, I only couldn’t see…
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Saturnlight
Basking in Saturnlight, the comet finally reaches the closest point to the ringed planet that it ever will do so. The ice crystals and rocky formations glisten in the reflected sunlight, from a sun almost one-and-a-half billion kilometres away. Saturn itself seems to hang low in the flimsy atmosphere the comet has created for itself…
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Blue with a hint of green…
I’m celebrating Good Friday with a series of photos (taken on my mobile phone, of course!) concentrating on the colours blue and green. It may be a tad early in England for bluebells to appear, but here in the Grinds anything and everything happens in its own random order. You can get some pretty nifty…