Liquidambar leaf palette just now👇🏼. Pause for a moment if you’re feeling anxious-your brain’s likely to release dopamine due to a positive response to colour gradation, certain bright colours & looking at images our brains find appealing. A pause here will make your day slightly easier to tackle 🍁

A spoon full of HP makes the medicine go brown, the medicine go brown.

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

I've seen one French Partridge before but currently have TEN of them in the garden!! Which one is David Cassidy...?

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social A very distracted day so no favourite from me but a question for those more learned than myself.... what is this, please, and is that something munching the leaves? I love the 'telephone wire' tendrils!

My Etsy shop's now open for my 5 sets of greetings cards:spring,summer,autumn,nature/botanical collections & tiny posies.I post to the US now too I create each of my photos using recent neuroscientific research-looking at them shifts your brain away from fight or flight: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

These👇🏼180-125 yo Victorian ink bottles are still available as posy-making kits in my Etsy shop. Each kit is designed to improve mental health & includes a booklet about the neuroscience with how-tos,a dried flowers posy (see photo),stationery extras & a hand-printed box: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My Victorian ink bottle posy kits are now in in my Etsy shop. They include: ✒️an antique ink bottle - you can choose your design 💐a tiny posy of dried flowers 🧠a booklet on the neuroscience of how this kit can improve mental health & how to create tiny posies 📔 extras www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

This is a fascinating way to spend an hour - you will learn so much! Thank you to all involved in this podcast.

'A way through the woods' - wood engraving. One of my many new prints that will have it's first Artwave outing this year. I am really excited to be putting this show together for visitors to the beautiful Hamsey Church. Where @paulevansartist and I will turn it into our gallery for the Festival.

@levparikian.bsky.social and fellow birding folk - this popped down for a quick look about this morning. I'm thinking Sparrowhawk or Goshawk, probably juvenile. Please would somebody confirm!?

I’ve been struggling w severe depression in recent wks but trying to hold on to small good things.These are hand-carved Victorian mother of pearl buttons,some extremely tiny (tip of pencil bottom R).Arranging them gave my brain precious dopamine. Hope they do the same for yrs if it’s anxious/low rn:

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social One from the yard this week - Pilosella aurantiaca 'Fox and Cubs'. North Yorkshire. #DaisyFamily

It’s good to be back in the workshop after my studies. I’ve made mirrors for all my grandchildren - the motifs I choose tell the child’s story. This mirror has just been delivered. (The button came from a uniform worn by my beloved grandfather, after whom the youngest grandchild was named.)

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PollinatorPals This week we have a patch of Cow Parsley with an assortment of paused pollinators.

@silverpebble2.bsky.social Found this on a bimble today - initial thought was Magpie but possibly Rook/Crow...? Not a patch on your Curlew, mind!

If you can't have a steam loco, the next best thing is a tractor!

The Paul Evans Calendar 2026. Twelve beautiful images printed using archival quality inks on 170 gsm satin paper from the truly arresting Paul Evans. www.rathergoodart.co.uk/product/paul-evans-calendar-2026/ #paulevans #paulevanscalendar #rathergoodart #artcalendar #calendar2026

You can only pick one. Which one?

THREAD. A selection of interdimensional portals I have chanced upon during walks in the British countryside.

Oh no! I got distracted by the BBC Prom on BBC4 and missed the @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #harebellchallenge Sorry I'm late but there was just one on the North Yorkshire limestone on Friday.

My mental health was 1/10 yday-was struggling to hold on. If my photos or posts about mental health have ever lifted you,could you maybe like this post? I know it seems needy but I'm trying to change the narrative in my head-find some value in myself. If I've helped someone I can hold on to that x

@wildflowerhour #hairyplantchallenge A garden thingy this week but pretty hairy, nonetheless. Fleabane, perhaps?

Unusual visitor today - D1015 'Western Champion' Class 52.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #GrassChallenge #wildflowerhour Totter Grass with bonus orchid and twayblade! North Yorkshire Limestone.

@keithpettit.bsky.social Just spotted these in the yard (sorry)

David Longdon: In honour of David’s 60th birthday today, his partner Sarah has given us this film of Telling The Bees to share from her and David’s personal collection. It was recorded in late 2020 at Playpen Studios in Bristol, UK. David’s personal and musical legacy is for the ages. bit.ly/3FZVoIe

Spotted in Heathfield - does anybody know this lady? I'd like a crocheted martlet! 😍 #SussexDay

Hopelessly late for #wildflowerhour but found this handsome fern in a disused railway tunnel on Friday.

Be careful folks. I’ve just received one of these scam texts that are doing the rounds.

I hate doing this, but peeps I need your help to get sales back on track! If you have the bandwidth and can share our work with anyone you think it might be helpful for, or can make a purchase that you've been thinking to do for a while - please do so! If you've not come across us before: 1/3

My Etsy shop's now open for a v. limited print run of half calendars of my tiny posy & botanical photos. I design my photos using recent neuroscientific research so that looking at them alleviates stress & lift mood. Each calendar=6 very high quality frameable prints: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

As of today, I’ll be encouraging anyone who wants to buy Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear to get it direct from me. That way I’m sure to get the money from the sale. (UK only, I’m afraid) levparikian.com/index.php/pr...

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

@blakeybloke.bsky.social LOOK!! What do you want to do with the other two wishes?

"You will be glad to hear that while you were out I took the opportunity to take your record collection out of alphabetical order and rearranged it by genre. You are welcome."

I'm holding a flash sale this w/e-you can bag 15% off my June botanical or bird illustration & mental health w'shops w. the code LEAFYFLASH15. Learn how creative activity & contact with nature gives us resilience to stress & trauma Plus learn how to draw twigs or wrens ✒️🌿🪶 workshops.emmamitchell.uk

@dalestranslator.bsky.social Yet more nutty antics at the MotoGP this afternoon....

Well this is a bit depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. Please have a look and repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Today in 1937 Tommy Woodrooffe, a very drunk broadcaster, commentated on a Royal Navy Fleet Review. Only for a few minutes, until they faded him out. #CareerGoals.

My 14 June botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's now enrolling I'll teach you: 🌿How to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading 🧠How time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Limited spaces,earlybird price: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social This is something I keep forgetting to post! Found this when we were on hols (North Yorkshire limestone). Please would someone help me out with an ID? 🙏

When the ground is hard and the ball comes bouncing Skittled off the pad for three Speaking words of Wisden Let it be

When I find myself in times of trouble All out for 53 Speaking words of Wisden Let it be

A great first day of @themakersfair at Standen House - I engraved a new letter for my ABC: T for Owl... More tomorrow, we open at 10, I hope you can make it along.

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social This is something I keep forgetting to post! Found this when we were on hols (North Yorkshire limestone). Please would someone help me out with an ID? 🙏