A tūturiwhatu (New Zealand dotterel) playing in a pool created by the high tide at Omaha this morning. 🪶🇳🇿

You all should see this beauty 👇 🦑

Love this 🦀 ! 🗃️ 🏺

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A New Zealand tūī in my lemon tree yesterday morning. This and all of Aotearoa's other natural environments are what the current New Zealand government doesn't give two shits about. #newzealand #birds

Cancer sucks. This is my niece. Any contribution, big or small, will help ease some of the financial and practical pressures ahead and allow the family to focus on treatment and recovery. givealittle.co.nz/cause/show-y...

#alt #birdoftheday #birdphotography #birds #photography #swans #cygnet #passenger #funnies "From this angel you still look rather silly" A cygnet watches me watching it. I'm certain it was convinced I was mad! It tried a few angles before boring of me!

Autumn, my favourite season. Went for a gentle stroll in the rain with Hubs❤️. The local park looking stunning in yellow ginkgo. #travel #Rotorua #nzl 🇳🇿🌱

Sometimes, my work assistant forgets that the pencil works best, when it's held at the other end. #bird #cockatiel 🪶

HiPOD: Cold Dunes, Cold Planet This observation features dunes at high latitude with frost well into summer. This image footprint is in Planum Boreum at the South Pole of Mars. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076979_2650 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

Geneva AM ft Ngā Whetu Ensemble: Toitū te Tiriti #NZMusicMonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO_j...

A few weeks ago: Hubs: We should get the skipbin for 9/10 May as it's the only weekend we are both home for ages. Skipbin is now ordered for Friday to next Friday. Hubs on Tues has MTB crash, broken bones & concussion.😟 Skipbin arrives on Fri, urchin & I now exhausted from filling it.

Today I set out to understand how barnacle geese chicks, who launch themselves off of cliff faces hundreds of feet high within days of hatching, survive their extreme falls. Friends, I did not succeed. Let me tell you what I did find. 1/8 ⚛️🧪

A kaka is flying and screeching about above the suburban street. #tinyjoys. #Rotorua

Sizes S-5XL on premium Thread Project (NZ owned) hoodies, 80% cotton, 20% poly. Screenprinted using traditional methods here in NZ. I basically need to sell 100 of these for this not to be a disaster, so I'm taking a chunky gamble here. *fingers crossed*

Exploring with negative space using a brown paper bag that the vegies came in, and some scrap white paper. Just playing with form and contrast. . Tearing the paper allowed me just to go with the flow. #art #textile #fabric #recycle #reuse #quilt #sew #stitch #craft #thread

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What a specimen! #tinyjoys

3/3 Still, I'm glad I could recreate it for someone and got to learn about it. The commissioner loved green is all its shades so lots of variation was included. This aerial embroidery was complex at times but I think it was well worth it! :)

Ok, I'm making Feijoa and chilli jelly this weekend. This is what it should look like tomorrow. I have added more details to all photos using alt text. I don't have a recipe, just the process, and I will take photos while I make it. It's an overnight process. 1/n #cook #recycle 🇳🇿🍜

Hubs: Where is the cat? Me: Heatering.

Ivor Dickie was a stripper interviewed for Woman's Journal, but ID refused to be photo'd, so they reached out to Beryl Cook and this artwork was born 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Ladies Night", 1980, @theboxplymouth.bsky.social, features in Jack's new book, Hotties in Art: www.waterstones.com/book/hotties...

When I eat Feijoa, I cut up the “shell”, pop it in a bread bag. This lives in the freezer. Once the bag is full, I make Feijoa &chilli jelly. Perfect for the small scungie ones that don’t get eaten too. Picked up lots on my park walk tonight. Making feijoa & ginger cake for dessert. 🇳🇿🍰 #cook #nzl

Went to the Portland Art museum today for free* for the first time since the renovations that connect the wings (without using a passage that resembles an airport concourse). My favorite piece was a sculpture that looks like a giant quilt block, but when you look close, its made of circuit boards.

Spent several hours with other volunteers sorting through donated bags of fabric. These fabrics will be made into quilts for the community. I came home with several hand sewn paper pieced half blocks already started. I'm going to see if I can finish them with the sewing machine. A challenge. #quilt

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Can anyone out there tell me what this extraordinary cloud phenomenon is? 2pm today above Rakiura Stewart Island. Is this your territory @paullecomtephoto.nz ☁️☁️

Close by my home is the Whakarewarewa forest. This afternoon's walk I decided to see Rocko. He lives on one of the trails. I don't visit him often as it's in the tourisity part of the forest. Rocko has stopped growing, and has a tail now. 1/2 #Rotorua #travel #art

Some mixed messaging nor-east pretty tho

*not strictly signing up to a WT Claim, but joining #ToitūTeTiriti in THEIR application to be an Interested Party to Ngāti Hine's Claim. i was very happy to sign same form to tautoko opposition to #RSB in 2025. grateful to Eru & crew for allowing all to participate forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

These fluffy clouds caught my eye on my walk home from work. #tinyjoys

🦖 Paléontologie française: . Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1840-1894.. [Source]

Sorry, this needs a short story: Sitting in the Las Vegas airport over a decade ago waiting for my connection, already miserable because I am traveling with a cold. Two minutes before being called up for boarding, I feel a *bonk* on the back of my head. 💥 🧵 1/8

For #InternationalBatAppreciationDay, please join me in remembering that time in 2021 when New Zealanders showed so much love for local bat pekapeka-tou-roa that they voted it "Bird of the Year" 🦇

Spent most of the week in Ōtautahi. Plenty of fallen leaves on paths and roadways. Autumn is my favourite season. Botanical gardens Ōtautahi, Christchurch. #garden #art #reflection #autumn 🇳🇿🌱🍂

Happened upon these "bums in the wild" while in Ōtautahi. Joy of Eternal Spring by Llew Summers #museumbums

Wellington friends, I need a favour. Next Monday afternoon 20/4 at 2pm, I have a gastroscopy at the Rutherford Clinic in Lower Hutt. I can get out there by myself, but due to sedation, I will need a lift back into town. If anyone can help, please let me know. Will reimburse your fuel costs. Ta!

Breaking news: giant springtail from Aotearoa NZ made the cover of @natecoevo.nature.com! This amazing pic of H. paucispinosa by @frankashwood.bsky.social should lure readers to the global study by @zheng-zhou.bsky.social et al on soil animal trophic diversity 🌍🌿🕷️🪱🪳🧪 www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

My Rorschach Quilt (2023? 2024?)

April 16th is Bull Kelp Day and you know what that means #BullKelpDay

If you loved my tūī bathing video then here you go: I cut together the wax eyes and a sequence of Mr Pīwakawaka on his own. And lopped off 30s to appease the Bluesky gods 🥺 #nzbirds Sound up, they're a chatty little bunch and I think the tūī can also be heard warbling in the rātā throughout

Old cat helping me hang the washing inside, cyclone prepping. Nil 🇳🇿

#Tinyjoys Last week the roofer fixed one of the leaky roofs. The rain today is doing it's best to test the result. So far, all is dry in that room.

That’s us somewhere under that cloud. I was watching live at that point in time 💚 art002e009288 (April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. See ALT for more

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

I'm exploring the Whanganui river this long weekend. Happened upon these ducks. Are they Whio? #birds #nzl 🪶🇳🇿

Today is my Mama’s birthday. The cousins got together and we picked up a bag full of chestnuts. Reminisced about our childhoods, the memories of chestnut feasting with Mama.

Had a quick stroll in the forest close to home. Chirpy pīwakawaka kept me company. #tinyjoys 🇳🇿

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...