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Alec MacKinnon
@alecmackinnon.bsky.social
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Solar physicist, adult educator, human. Scottish. Retired; hopefully not yet moribund. Prog, jazz and indeed, surprising though it might be to the younger me, folk. Cycling
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Autumn colours in Pollok Park, Glasgow last Saturday. Think the trees will be barer already. #photography #autumn #glasgow
a carpet of fallen, orange leaves. Many shades of yellow, orange, brown in the leaves still on the trees. At right a thick tree trunk, damp and dark in this shady corner
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A walk and a beer
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Autumnal path in Pollok Park, Glasgow. #photography #glasgow #autumn
Path among partially bare trees, leaves on the ground
November 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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a beautiful 22° ice crystal halo round the Sun, and indeed the wind turbine, at Whitelee Windfarm this morning #whiteleewindfarm #icecrystalhalo #metorologicaltopics
hazy sky with murky Sun behind thin cloud just above a wind turbine, with a halo of 22 degree radius around it, as formed by refraction of sunlight in hexagonal ice crystals at stratospheric altitude
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Two shady characters #ducks #whitecart #pollokcountrypark #photography
Two ducks, heads raised, beaks extended, on the surface of the White Cart river in the shadow of a tree. Ripples and reflections on the surrounding water
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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big #cabbages
brick wall, lit by low autumn sun, with an autumnal tree above and behind, and tall cabbage plants in front
October 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover
October 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Coniston Water #coniston #conistonwater #ripples #tree
surface of Coniston Water rippled by waves from a boat, shore in the foreground, trunk of a tree at left, tree-covered hills behind across the lake
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Lake District murky day #lakedistrict #coniston #yewdale #murky #autumnal
Stone wall snaking away into the distance, wood on its right side, rough pasture on its left, wooded hills shrouded in low cloud beyond Autumnal trees in the foreground, hills behind wreathed in low cloud. All rather gray A stream, an orange-coloured autumnal tree, some sheep on grass
October 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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One year ago today. Looked trashy, was great. Never seen them since #chocolatesnowball
A chocolate snowball on a wooden chopping board
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Our morning walk in Linn Park is particularly beautiful at this time of year #autumn #glasgow #leavesturning
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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"In rust we trust" ha ha.
October 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Our house is on Scotland. This was heading for a talk in a school in Greenock when I got a puncture. Boo
Globe of the world with a monopoly house blu-tacked over Scotland
October 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation
September 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I guess it's one or the other
Road sign directing us right for "way out" or left for "mortuary"
September 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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In Pollok Park, #Glasgow yesterday.
A weir next an old mill building, Sun reflected in the White Cart river
September 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Here's water tumbling over the waterfall in Linn Park, #Glasgow
September 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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It's not so sunny now. In fact, getting brutal. Still the loudest band I ever saw #Swans
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Sunny morning continues #terjerypdal #jazz
CD cover Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette partly in sunshine on the windowsill with a band of shadow across it
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Sunny morning here in Glasgow #ECM #jazz #nilspettermolvaer
Sleeve and cover of CD "Khmer" by Nils Petter Molvaer, sunny trees outside
September 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A moment's pause as the road ahead opens up #cycling
Looking along a road from the brow of a hill. The grass-verged road leads on towards a city on the horizon. Green fields and a wood in the middle distance. A sunny day with white clouds
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Pollok Park fungi #pollokcountrypark #glasgow #fungi
September 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Breezy day here in Gairloch, #Scotland
Little bay with swell Waves on the sea, Gairloch seafront Stormy sea with swell, Gairloch shoreline, slipway in the foreground
September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Wester Ross coastline, Skye on the horizon. #gairloch #coastline #westerross #scotland #highlandsofscotland #skye #trotternish
looking along the coastline of the Gair Loch in northwest Scotland, rocky shore and heather to the right, blue sea to the left. Island of Skye on the horizon
September 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Good morning from Gairloch, northwest Scotland #sunrise #gairloch #westerross #scotland #torridon
pink and orange colour in the sky just before sunrise, low hills in the foreground mountains with pink lightening sky above
September 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM