The Midgies Movie: Little monsters. Big appetites
#Trailer & info for #Midgies an action packed comedy-horror feature film project originally the brainchild of screenwriter and author, Barry #Hutchison.
Having lived in the #Highlands for most of his life, Barry is painfully familiar with the bitey wee #beasties that take to the air every summer, making everyone’s lives a misery.
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June is the month of orchids in my part of the #Highlands. On to-day's #DogWalk I was seeing orchids everywhere. In particular, there are lots of these Common Spotted Orchids (Urach bhallach - Dactylorhiza fuchsii) shown in the attached photos. They have a preference for a moist, boggy environment. We have no shortage of boggy places this June. 😃
Messing About on the ... Ocean?
A well-known tourist attraction, built between 1792 and 1793, the Clachan Bridge aka the Bridge over the Atlantic, Clachan, Seil - on a dull grey cloudy day with boats in the distance.
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A scene from to-day's #DogWalk tells a story in two parts.
The near cloudless blue sky shows that we are having some sunshine this June, after all.
The green below shows that the bracken (roineach - Pteridium aquilinum) is in full-force, and has taken over the hillsides.
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Consequently, I'm probably going to operate the IBM as a headless scanner server, and access the Epson using the SANE net backend. Using my Thinkpad will be very convenient.
Attached is an example scan from a monochrome negative, taken with an Zeiss Ikonta 521/16 medium format camera. It shows two farmers, and two heavy horses (Clydesdales?), harvesting potatoes on the Isle of Skye, circa 1949.
I will post further interesting example photos.
I was in Glenfinnan, to-day. It was the perfect example of tourism gone mad. The use of the Jacobite Steam Train in the Harry Potter movies has resulted in the village being inundated with people wanting to photograph the locomotive. Every car park was full, and people had ditched their cars in any available spot, regardless whether it was safe, or not. Residents were charging £10 for one hours parking in their driveways. After the train passed through, half the cars left.
While samplings of #alpine beasties in the #Cairngorms #NationalPark for my #BEN_EAF project at the #JamesHuttonInstitute are still in the preparation, here some impressions of the critters I've found while hiking.
As temperatures go up, so more activity is expected, right?
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I went with wifey and NJ on a different type of walk. The start was just ½hr drive away, and we were walking for perhaps an hour or 1½hrs in total, but with some minor undulations.
The views from there though were amazing.
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