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Viewed along Graig Park Avenue on July 17th 2018, a rare example of an overcast... (more)

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After a week of dazzling weather, today is chill, overcast, and has a Northerly... (more)

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Overcast and chilly. Not a good feel on an early spring monring

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Taken at about 9.30am when the moon had maximum coverage of the sun. It had... (more)

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The sun breaks through spotlighting some trees in the sparsely inhabited area... (more)

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Rain gathering on the twigs of the oak tree.

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A heavy drape of rain clouds, which suggests we are in for a day of steady drizzle

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After a week of warm weather hastened leaf-burst all over the place the weather... (more)

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Initially steep public path from forestry track above Crosskeys to join the... (more)

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The dullness of a heavily overcast day made the delicate little Christmas lights... (more)

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View East from the near the top of Meall a' Chaorainn in East Sutherland,... (more)

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After a dark and stormy night, the sun was trying to break through. This is a... (more)

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I think the farmer has got away with it. Although thunderstorms raged all... (more)

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Colourful flowering shrub climbing over a fence in Oak Crescent

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A rebuilding exercise in Torfrida Drive includes a new fence where the property... (more)

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In the local argot, "a damp old morning, that's she"

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As seen in the cool light of a dull winter morning.

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It's raining, grey and cold. You should have been here last week ......

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The public footpath from Edenham to Bourne here heads into the edge of town.

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The pavement is closed in Hazelwood Drive which also blocks access to the public... (more)

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A set of temporary traffic lights at the junction of Beech Avenue and Polar... (more)

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The entrance to the Blind Well field is in Cedar Drive. You can just make out a... (more)

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The community orchard can be accessed at weekends, and is a pleasant place to... (more)

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Houndstongue growing in the community orchard in Bourne

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One of the occasional semi-detached houses on this estate. The entrance to the... (more)

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A dull morning very close to the spot seen in TF0820 : High in the sky the day before.

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A bit more of the track seen in TF0820 : Service road, which continues in front of The Villas.

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Out for a perambulation after work, I decided to use the "service... (more)

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One of the flower spikes on TF0820 : Horse Chestnut in bloom.

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Aesculus hippocastanum, the Horse Chestnut, has big, wonderful, leaves and... (more)

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Looking up into the domed top of the oak in TF0820 : Two domed crowns, showing the exquisite... (more)

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It's a silver bin day today, recyclable materials. The parade of silver... (more)

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Before the bracken takes over

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While the trees behind are still bare, a shorter Hawthorn has added a flush of... (more)

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A glum, bleak spring morning under which the weeping willows are freshly green... (more)

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This cut is a branch of the Bourne Eau that surrounds the War Memorial garden

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I rather think this is an ornamental Almond Prunus dulcis, or perhaps a white... (more)

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Straining to be free, the Beech is wanting to put forth leaves.

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Big Crab-apple covered in blossom. See TF0820 : Malus sylvestris for a close up of the flowers.

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Blackthorn petals brought down by the overnight rain are dotted on the nettle leaves

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The pale green of new Hawthorn leaves, and the tiny white pearls where the... (more)

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Barely head high, this is the host of TF0720 : First flowers.

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The first Hawthorn blossom I have seen this year.

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I always look forward to the Hawthorn Blossom, the May blossom.

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We had a brief overnight damping - nothing more, not enough to leave puddles on... (more)

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The early morning gloom caused by low cloud was starting to break up, and the... (more)

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The base of the tree in TF0820 : A twisted bole

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Tree with a great deal of forgotten history at ground level

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Lots of splendid poles growing from a coppice knob just off the path

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A wide angle view of one of the plantations on a dull morning

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