{"id":97,"date":"2009-04-07T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/edinburgh-spring-2009\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:49","slug":"edinburgh-spring-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2009\/04\/edinburgh-spring-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Spring 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the long break – the few months of the year has been particularly busy as always, and I wasn’t able to get out much!<\/em><\/p>\n

A set of photos from a weekend with friends in Edinburgh:<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghCastle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Proof that I was in Edinburgh – the distinctive sight of Edinburgh Castle<\/a> strategically sited on the volcanic basalt plug of Castle Rock.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghBotanics\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pictures from the Edinburgh botanic gardens<\/a>. Although we’d visited “the Botanics” several times in the past, this was the first time it had been both sunny and I had a charged camera battery…<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghRhodedendron2\"<\/a>
\n\"EdinburghRhodedendron\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Admiring the rhodedendrons.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghBridges\"<\/a>
\n\"EdinburghBridge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

L-R: Duncan, Callum, Murdo, Alan.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghTree\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The glasshouse is just visible in the background on the left.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghSilverBirch\"<\/a>\"EdinburghBirchBark\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A nice pair of birch trees: a silver birch and a close of the bark showing the distinctive horizontal lenticels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghSequoiaApproach\"<\/a>\"EdinburghSequoias\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Although not on the same scale at the California sequoias, this group of sequoias is still impressive.<\/p>\n

\"EdinburghBlossom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"EdinburghPolypore\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The creamy underside means that this is probably bjerkandera fumosa<\/em> (“smoky polypore”) rather than the more common bjerkandera adusta<\/em> (“grey polypore”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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