Yesterday's mini-beasts to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com! Do join us to celebrate the #SmallBeauties and perfect blisses of these early summer days. All very welcome #BecauseOfClem.

It was Rogation-tide, when the land was blessed and the ancient bounds of the parish were beaten, every gospel oak and half-forgotten brook and fielden edge remembered and passed down the generations.

Apple blossom to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Join us sharing #SmallBeauties from your days #BecauseOfClem. I'm back to other work today but I will look forward to seeing the posts later.

#smallbeautieshour I was to Kraków last week. A wonder of a small door; glass catalogue at the wonderful stained glass museum; a baked cheesecake at the wonderful Manggha Museum cafe - we went back for lunch after seeing the exhibitions. Dobranoc ~ nos da #becauseofClem #threadofgold

Words of power ✊

Turn to the poets and artists.

the first fiesta of Primroses - a woodland bouquet for those sick at heart, or detained, or unjustly arrested, bombarded, driven into exile 🌿 #SmallBeautiesHour #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling #gardening #FlowerReport

A cleansing moment and early entry for #SmallBeautiesHour, a blackbird singing his heart out.

#SmallBeautiesHour Wild garlic

Evening BlueSky peeps. For #SmallBeauties this week a lovely butterfly stopped by, forsythia in full bloom, almost time for tulips and yet more lovely mini daffs 🌱💛 #SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseofClem #threadofgold

I can’t work out whether the brick pillar is supporting the twisted trunk, or the twisted trunk is holding up the pillar. Either way, it’s a fine sight. #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold💛 #SmallBeautiesHour

Lots of things for #SmallBeautiesHour this week: ladybird, violet, rhubarb, seedlings and catching up with family

One from the coast yesterday for this week's #SmallBeautiesHour. 🌼🐝 #SmallBeauties #Spring #Sligo

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold Ada Limon

for #smallbeautieshour really, honestly, there are a number of sand martins in this image. Mallard hide Teifi Marshes @wtsww.bsky.social Such a delight to see the first ones, this was Saturday, two weeks before my excitement was a kingfisher at the ...kingfisher hide #becauseofClem #threadofgold

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold spending time with hares, mice, and the wildest of Geese at Spring Restival. With thanks to @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social art by Jackie Morris, Georgia Warne, Jill Barklem

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold titter......

Spring is so full of small beauties that it’s one great enveloping beauty—but here for #SmallBeautiesHour, a few tiny highlights from this morning: the first trillium in the woods, wild (chaparral) currant, & a moth or butterfly mirroring the white milkmaids by the trail.

#smallbeautieshour #becauseofClem #threadofgold Lucy Almey Bird

Kate’s Moore's experience getting treatment for her osteoarthritis involved refusing to be fobbed off and being persistent with her GP. It’s a lesson more of us could learn. @northeastbylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social

Hooray for being here for #smallbeautieshour for the next 3 weeks! I have missed it! Here then are some March #SmallBeauties: loving the presence of the everyday angel pigeons on warming days, the promise of clouds of yew pollen, the beauty of lacy hydrangea skeletons, violets.

@rallenkey.bsky.social Hello Mr Key!!!

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social gulls!

@radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social @jomary10.bsky.social

Huge Sphagnum rubellum hummock #moss #bryophyte

We had a great (wet) day with the BBS Irish Bryophyte Group on Saturday. The morning in Ravensdale Forest where Jubula hutchinsiae is abundant in the gorge and afternoon at Long Woman's Grave, with Braunia imberbis on nearly every gabro boulder and occasional cushions of Glyphomitrium daviesii.

Crocheted carrot lavender bags! This makes me happy! @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social

I didn't know this. And chimpu-chimpu! 🥰🥰 @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @mstattsyrup.bsky.social @anniearyfridd.bsky.social @jeanietrefaldwyn.bsky.social

The return of the baby nettles to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com & us all. #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm! Do join us sharing #SmallBeauties & tiny joys as little anchors in all that's good in this wobbly world. All very welcome!

A crow in flight on a blue sky day to say that, tonight from 9-10pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com, which is now! Join us sharing your #SmallBeauties & tiny joys from these wobbly days. We do this #BecauseOfClem.

The beautiful face of Lantern-eyed Danny Dyer, who is #NotOurCat, to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. #SmallBeautiesHour is at 9pm. All welcome to join us sharing & enjoying #SmallBeauties in these strange, wobbly times #BecauseOfClem.

@stephaniehafferty.bsky.social @radicalhoneybee.bsky.social @celestineandthehare.com @jomary10.bsky.social look! First snowdrop in the garden!

#OnlyBeautifulThings Some moss from a while back.

Not my cat snoozing on my legs in bed to say that it's now #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Our #SmallBeautiesHour begins at 9pm. Be there and be small beautified #BecauseOfClem. Bring your #SmallBeauties & yourself. All very welcome!

Here are my legs in my bed. This is not our cat. 😅 #NotOurCat

We are entering again the female space of winter. Here we find Catterntide for lacemakers, on Nov 25th as we begin our journey...& Distaff Day & the work of spinning on 7th January as we emerge. Here, we reclaim sacred time and this, our winter holy tide. beedurban.substack.com/p/to-spin-a-...

For our continuing #Christmastide: The Haw Lantern & the Hinge of the Year ”I saw a bright blaze sprung up in the fields beyond the river and I knew at once that they were keeping up the old custom of Burning the Bush on New Year’s Day in the morning” beedurban.substack.com/p/the-haw-la...

An exciting fungi finding to say that, tonight from 9pm, is our #SmallBeautiesHour, preceded by #RemindCelestineAboutSmallBeautiesHourHour for @celestineandthehare.com. Join us in this final sharing of #SmallBeauties of 2024 to end the old year well & start the new year bright #BecauseOfClem.

Day 40 of #CommonersAdvent and the 1st day of Christmas is Two poems for a Winter Child. This part of the journey is over for now but I won’t be disappearing just yet, as I have plans for the Twelvetide. But, for now, a very Merry Christmas to us all! beedurban.substack.com/p/two-poems-...

Day 39 of #CommonersAdvent is The Canticle of the Bees: the Spells & Songs of Christmas Eve. ...the Psalmody of the Bees, Burning the Ashen Faggot, and Welsh Plygain singing. What could be more beautiful!? beedurban.substack.com/p/the-cantic... #Advent2024

Days 34 & 35 of #CommonersAdvent are 'From Lack to Light', for a-Thomassing on St Thomas’ Day & the light of the Morning Star. beedurban.substack.com/p/from-lack-... #Advent2024

Day 34 of #CommonersAdvent is a Praise Song for the Dark on the Longest Night. …maybe on this longest night in the midnight of the year, it is ok to say that I have given up on hope, because in the darkness I have seen such beauty and wonders. beedurban.substack.com/p/a-praise-s...

Day 33 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘Embertide for a Shrew’ How does a tiny being survive the long dark? ...the frost & snow is scattered with the pattern of her pawprints & the trail of her tail; a constellation of faith that life endures. beedurban.substack.com/p/embertide-... #Advent2024

Day 32 of #CommonersAdvent is ‘The Winter Art of Tamsin Abbott’. I adore the glass engravings of Tamsin Abbott, who writes; “My work is influenced by this ancient land and how we are connected to it. The hills, the woods, the plants...” beedurban.substack.com/p/the-winter... #Advent2024

Day 31 of #CommonersAdvent is all about the old growth fen-magic of cranberries, plus two festive makings! Cranberries are edge-dwellers of the bogs & fens, & are woven into the Christmas story in the most surprising of ways... beedurban.substack.com/p/old-growth... #Advent2024

The 3rd candle has been lit for #CommonersAdvent & the light is quietly increasing, although it may feel to many of us that the darkness has deepened. And so, I take a long breath as I write that this week's candle is dedicated to joy... beedurban.substack.com/p/rejoice-fo... #Advent2024

A beautiful and uplifting service of lessons and carols at the Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem. Tragically the ‘Christ Under the Rubble’ nativity icon is still in place and Gaza was uppermost in all our minds. Singing carols for the Prince of Peace was an active defiance in the face of war.

Day 28 of Commoners’ Advent is for the guelder rose and the beauty of winter. Guelder rose is a sacred plant in Ukraine and symbolises connection, protection and blessings granted by the ancestors. beedurban.substack.com/p/a-rose-in-... #CelticAdvent #Advent2024

L'arbre de vie, Séraphine de Senlis, 1928.