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We travel the Spaceways.
Snaps of the stuff we see along the way.
My posts have loads of edits as I can't spell for toffee and I worry too much about the rubbish I write!
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Joined December 18, 2022
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18/07/2026 - A few lovely wild flowers I saw on my walk along the coast at St Cyrus for #WildFlowerHour. The wild flowers are different to the ones I see round Aberdeen 50 miles north. I wonder if it's due to being the other side of the Highland Boundary Fault
Restharrow
Hare's-foot Clover
Clustered Bellflower
Wood Vetch
#WildFlowers
06/07/2026 - Evening walk after work. After a windy few days there were a lot of samaras down from the different maple trees. There are 4 maples in the "wild" round my way. Wild being anything by the roadsides. I'm not counting all the weird and wonderful maples in folk's gardens (Smooth Japanese-maple seems very popular here).
It was nice to compare the size and shape of these 4 samaras winged fruits or as I called them helicopters.
Sycamore
Field Maple
Cappadocian Maple
Norway Maple
04/07/2026 - 3 buses to get to Pitmedden Garden and all I got was a turnip sawfly!
I did see a few more bugs to be honest. I'd gone for hoverflies but it was pretty overcast whilst there and those hoverflies are proper sun worshipers so there wasn't much about. I did see a furry dronefly which was nice. Plenty bumblebees and wasps too. The garden is a peaceful place to spend a day. The flowers are lovely. The buses there and back too are good. The journey is through some lovely countryside.
30/06/2026 - I had a morning walk round the hill before the rain. Lots of wild flowers about but it was the purple ones that I liked the best today.
Marsh Thistle
Spear Thistle
Creeping Thistle
Common Knapweed
#WildFlowers
15/06/2026 - Day out in the Ladder Hills., the borderlands between Aberdeenshire and Moray. It was pretty wonderful. Lot's of wild flowers, mosses and lichens to look at. Birds were great too, golden eagle, ring ouzel, common sandpiper and red kite. Top walk, happy Spaceways today.
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@dar@mastoart.social
@dar@mastoart.social Thanks for that info. I didn't know that. Surprised to hear a red dye. I would have guessed green or blue 😃
26/04/2026 - A few flowers from my walk round the block today for #WildFlowerHour
Garlic Mustard
Pink Purslane
Ribwort Plantain
Green Alkanet
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@DenOfEarth@mas.to
@DenOfEarth@mas.to No, I'm not very brave. Maybe should have as they did seem calm today 😃
20/04/2026 - Evening walk. I was feeling sleepy after a busy day. The cows were proper friendly this evening. They all came over to say hello and we said hello back.
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@bisamsee@mastodon.radio
@bisamsee ""I still have half battery for you!" - I love that. It was meant to be 😃
The craters have come out so well in your photo. 👍
09/04/2026 - Evening walk through twilight. Song thrush and blackbird singing loud, distant grey partridge calling in the fields and male and female tawny owl chatting to each other in the trees. I love to hear the twilight birds as they get ready for the night.
05/04/2026 - Sunny walk on the quiet back roads. I was feeling so sleepy today. It was a little windy all day but dry.
A few nice wild flowers for today's #WildFlowerHour
Ivy-leaved Toadflax
Slender Speedwell
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@DigitalDruid@cupoftea.social
@DigitalDruid I've spent far to long a time trying to figure out the location for this one as I felt I should know it. A good few hrs last night but it finally clicked today. It's Argyll Place! I like a map mystery and this was a good puzzle. I got it from Beechgrove Church in the distance! Your photo is really magic! I think the tree is a maybe Camperdown elm (an id you can politely reject 😃). I think it looks a bit poorly nowadays sadly.
24/02/2026 - A lovely tree from my evening walk today for #ThickTrunkTuesday
I think it's an old white poplar. I'm not very good with id without leaves! Just trunks are tricky. This tree has such wonderful fissures.
08/06/2025 - A sunny slow walk to look for wild flowers. We took butties and had a nice sit under larch trees. A day that was good for the head.
A few nice wild flowers we met along the way.
Bitter-vetch - Nice to find some still in flower.
Chickweed-wintergreen - A lovely flower. A lot in the wood this year.
Hairy Tare - A favourite of mine. So tiny.
Corn Spurrey - Good to find these again this year.