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Parky

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Happy days 271
Looking at leaves rather than news. Anybody else think this wee guy looks like Nemo? Just keep swimming.
Edinburgh, October 2025

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Picture of a bright orange leaf on a slab, there is sun flare and a touch of blue sky and green grass in the background.

October 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Parky

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I feel I know the carpet…

October 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM

Parky

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Happy days 270
Every year at the same time I get the heebie jeebies that she’s leaving 🍁 Haste ye back.
Edinburgh, October 2025

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Picture of a huge acer in my front garden, she is turning red as she hits the finale

October 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM

Parky

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Happy days 269
The sound of a season change. Not frost yet.
Edinburgh, October 2025

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Close up of dew on dark purple leaves with red veins. Soon it will be frost but not yet.

October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Parky

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Happy days 268
Somehow, these are happy shapes and colours
Edinburgh, October 2025

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A picture of pale honey colour floorboards and on top sits a blue dustpan (full) and brush, a red and grey screwdriver and pliers with bright orange handles. I’d just finished pulling out floor staples from 4 rooms. After this, the meal was bloody excellent.

October 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Parky

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Happy days 267
The start of earlier dusk and streaming autumnal light
Edinburgh, September 2025

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Soft sun from earlier dusk hitting a wall through blinds, the wall is papered in orange oversized lily heads

October 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Parky

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Happy days 266
It’s had a long shift
Edinburgh, September 2025

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Picture of an old blue Peugeot from the early 90s, paintwork looking quite beat up, sitting on a side street at night beside a some beautiful old buildings

September 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM

Parky

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Happy days 265
Kilt socks stand down for summer
Edinburgh, September 2025

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A line of kilt socks drying outside in September sunshine marking the end of the piping season

September 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM

Parky

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Happy days 264
Wandering and wondering
Glasgow, August 2025

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Picture shows a mural on Gable 1 of the Strathclyde University building on George Street in Glasgow. It depicts a huge domed telescope and is taken from the street pointing upward. There are three people walking by who are dwarfed by the image.

September 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM

Parky

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Happy days 262
Having a cuppa with @ianrankin1.bsky.social Angled to protect the ladies to my right. I’d forgotten how soft the light is in this painting. A luminous and warm tea companion.

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A poor photo of a gorgeous painting. You can see the tea tray in front of me.

September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Parky

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Happy days 261
Mini digger giving insect vibes. Galleries in town centres are havens of calm. Even with this outside the stairwell.

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View of construction work going on through a leaded window frame. There is a bright red mini digger amongst the rubble.

July 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Parky

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Happy days 260
46 seconds of self care…
Let your shoulders come down from your ears. There you go.

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May 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM

Parky

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Happy days 259
I used to think my tree was broken, but I’ve learned she might be a shirotae cherry. She arcs her arms downwards, like a mother picking up her child. This is standing inside gazing up…

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A stunning blossom display from inside the cherry tree, plenty lime green leaves, blue sky and hundreds of pink kisses waiting to fall

May 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM

Parky

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Happy days 258
Even more beautiful as they hit their wisdom age and crumpled
Edinburgh, March 2025

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Picture of wise tulips lying in a white sink after being removed from the vase. They are a deep wine colour with a little tickle of cream and the greenery is a strong lime green.

March 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM

Parky

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Happy days 257
In a hectic town (which they call a city), can this be only ten minutes from the door? I hope always for this peace.
Edinburgh, March 2025

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Picture taken from a hill looking over a part of Edinburgh

March 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Parky

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Happy days 256
Being the assistant.
Watching.
Learning.
Freezing!
Edinburgh, March 2025

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Picture of a girl taking photographs into the beginning of sunset. It is taken up a hill, lots of green and a background view of the town below.

March 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM

Parky

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Happy days 255
When you’re about to head home and Paddington smiles and waves. He was an immigrant. His writer took inspiration from the evacuations.
Edinburgh, November 2024

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A picture of a Paddington fibre glass statue sitting on a lit up bench in the middle of Charlotte Square. The Christmas festival decorations are starting to go up and he is viewed through an archway of warm white lights.

February 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM

Parky

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Happy days 254
Winter’s dusk
“I was looking up…you were there”
Edinburgh, February 2025

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Picture taken in winter’s dusk of a stone wall and house and of an ornate old globe lamp sitting on top of the wall. The lamp is on, it looks moonlike.

February 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Parky

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Happy days 253
Chummed the little one up the hill at dawn to do her project. It was cold, dark, muddy and worth the blind trek.
Edinburgh, February 2025

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Picture of the little girl taking a photo with her tripod at the top of the hill. There is a hot orange sunrise in the chill wind - blawin a hoolie we call it here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Picture halfway up the hill, the path is really just trees who kindly allow passage - the picture is a sunrise beginning, taken through all silhouettes of trees

February 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Parky

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Piper dropped 🎶
A cracking day for it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇹 🏉
Edinburgh, February 2025

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Picture taken outside Murrayfield stadium, it’s completely quiet, in a couple of hours it will be heaving with people. You can see the outside structure of the stadium in concrete and iron against a bright blue and sunny sky. It’s cold.

February 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM

Parky

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Happy days 252
Always fascinated to see the detail…who was the craftsman? Were they also the designer? How long was each day? What was in their packed lunch?
Cambridge, July 2024

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