1/2 SLR ride winter shots from earlier in the week when we had a lighter dusting of snow: - Lone Gorse bush blooming in front of farm fields at dusk. - Felled log in the managed woods. - Frozen crop field. - Frozen woodland pond. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 237

Misty on this afternoon's bike ride, looking over the fields. Then an hour of intense snow this evening, just after both elderly parents went out to different meetings... Worried me, but drove back safe. WeeklyWinterBits more than DailyNaturePics 236..?

Full #moon rise huge tonight! Whipped out my SLR and then post-processed two exposures into this one. Ground's frozen, but little snow. Got my 4yo OnePlus 8T back, free £215 screen repair. Takes way nicer photos, but used to bigger screen, hmm. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 235

I threw together a year in review life recap for old Facebook friends & family: zerogravitashealth.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-2... Many of you will have already seen me post much of this over the last year or my improvements, struggles and DailyNaturePics.

1/2 Christmas special #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 234! - Some of the most festively decorated front gardens in the area. - Florists' chrysanthemums, I've been saving for a special occasion, since October. Cream coloured to complement previous lilac and yellow.

Most interesting sci-tech YT vid in a while: Hank interviews Virginia Postrel on the history of textiles (and cordage). - Reframes civilisational developement: textiles necessitated agriculture more than food. - Viking boat build limited by sails. - Many idioms/words. 1/2

Testing the lacklustre camera in my new/stand-in phone (cheaper optics, ugly post-processing with limited options). Only usable screen of 5 bought & tried. - #SkySaturday, bike today - Skimmia, again but wet - Long leafed back garden plant #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 233

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday or FrobackFriday (Aug & 3x May): - Marigolds, in a cul-de-sac - Foxglove, drier shot than: x.https//x.com/Z3R0G... - Hedgerow Crane's-bill, front of house - Wood Avens (Geum urbanum) in lilly leaves #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 232

#WildLifeWednesday - 2025 Christmas clear-out!: - Hedgehog wandered right up to me (Sept) - Blackbird on manouvers (May, SLR) - Swallow-tailed(?) moth (Aug) and... - Crane fly (Aug), both stuck inside, mood. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 231

1/2 #TreeTuesday! Just barely!: - This big old oak by the main road, eerily deserted for a moment on a Sunday bike ride, in November. - The crinkly leaf carpet, below. - Looking out from inside the tree tunnel (left of first pic). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 230

Abelia grandifolia (Vesalea grandifolia) blooms were still looking good quite recently: - Down the hill, late November. Same plant, early September: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Across the main road. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 229

1/2 Always cool seeing big general science YouTube channels cover our chronic illnesses. Perhaps sad that them just calling the scale of the problem right is a thrill... But Anton Petrov actually informed me on NETs -> microclots, from a #TeamClots study, earlier this year.

Winter blooming evergreen shrubs I thought heather. PlantNet disagrees, apparently there's a subtle difference..: - Cornish heath (Erica vagans), end of Nov short walk. - Heath (Erica carnea), from this Wednesday's SLR jaunt. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 228

1/2 - Wednesday's SLR ride turned into a clear #SkySaturday moon shoot, floating atop this tree. - After wisely declining this sunny but overgrown and muddy footpath out into countryside. - Tree-fingers reaching up, "No Cycling" down here though. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 227

#FruitFriday - from the last few days: - Epigynous berries ('false fruit') of our Fuchsia plant. - Yellow crab apples reminiscent of seasonal baubles. - Stag's-horn Sumac tree's weird 'drupe'. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 226

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday - "May to December", as they say (and an old British sitcom)... Well technically late April to Nov here. Almost my full DNP run... Same street, blossoms to bare. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 225

#RoseWednesday? Thought I'd posted my last this year, found more today!: - Wichura's rose(?), road I've never been. - Another pair, in red, on the way home. - Tea rose, tub under pollarded willow. - Place settings Mum brought home. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 224

1/2 #TreeTuesday - a silly sentimental one for our Salix (Puzzle Willow?) tree which got pollarded last Friday (should be OK, heh)... It's been my shade & shelter, out back, for years. Rarely drooping surprises as I bloomscroll posted on laptop (after dusk). DailyNaturePics 223

Miserable Monday outside! But inside we have: - Hyacinth bulbs mum planted, busting out almost perceptibly! - Supermarket flowers (Chrysanthemums?). - Pachyphytum/Graptopetalum succulent babies, hanging in since: x.com/Z3R0Gravitas... #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 222

1/2 #SkySunday (previously known as 'SkySaturday', shh!): - To-be-developed housing estate land doing an impression of the Everglades. - The sky fell down to earth, last week; low thick mist with stars above. - AI edited image, details below... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 221

1/2 Scruffy Saturday - the Strawflowers/Paper daisies (Xerochrysum bracteatum), up the road, have been slowly growing taller, scruffier & more wet weather beleaguered. So let's rewind to their past glory! First, November, then... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 220

1/2 #FruitFriday - The main splashes of natural colour outside are now inedible berries. SLR shots: - Hawthorn (Crataegus), railway ride. - Lichen encrusted branch, decorative or ugly..? - Sorbus/Rowan branch, in October sun... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 219

#ThrowbackThursday - We deserve some cheer! So let's pop back to a mid-October SLR revisit of Dahlia ally front garden. Starting with Verbesina encelioides (American dogweed?) not posted before. Previously: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 218

1/2 #HedgerowWednesday - Gonna drop these here instead of Shallow Focus Sunday. SLR rides a month back: - European beech, front of my old school. - Longer view. - Cypress/Juniper evergreen, tussled, webbed & glistening from rain. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 217

1/2 #TreeTuesday, or an early #WoodWednesday? SLR Railway ride 3: - Gloriously gnarled old Black poplar(?) looks like a perfect nesting hole! - Younger trunk, but you can feel that rough texture! Sorry, no ID. - This one's seen some violence. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 216

1/2 #MacroMonday - SLR shots, abandoned railway ride 2: - Even a dishevelled Blackberry stem can strike a dramatic pose with this light! - Red & green. - White Dead-nettle + guest... - Ivy, back home, this how ladybirds hibernate? #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 215

1/2 On my longest (by mistake) SLR bike ride, a fortnight ago before it was so cold, I traversed a fun track paralleling an abandoned railway... ... Found a pretty #sunset and some (distant) sheeps! Macro shots tomorrow. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 214

Scruffy Saturday - suburban SLR exploration B-roll from last month: - Weigela (florida?), one decent bloom on a tall bush. - Cheeseweed (Malvaceae). - Horseweed (or maybe Fleabane again). - Rose (Austrian copper?). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 213

1/2 Pampas-grass, or PlantNet says "Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn"! Their feathery inflorescent plumes look refined in all seasons. I hunted neighbourhood examples in September - the impressive clump in (SLR) shot 2... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 212

#ThrowbackThursday: - St John's-wort bush at the front is *still* popping out single hopeful blooms! - This bee from early June, looong gone. - Great Hairy Willow-herb, hiding beneath. - Rear bush, July: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 211

#HedgerowWednesday - what do these fine textures remind you of..?: - Sunlit Juniperus (maybe) makes me think: green cloth for cue sports. - Thuja and/or Juniperus(?), look almost sanded vs trimmed. - Ilex(?), so spherical, might float away! #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 210

#TreeTuesday - mid-October sunny SLR ride evergreens!: - Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), seems unlikely in our clime. - Monkey puzzle, neater than ours. - Satisfying join of 3 ornamental conifers. - Pine (Pinus) offering a needled hand..? #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 209

Problems are starting to pile: 🙄 - OnePlus 8T just got The Green Line problem while cooking, so have to rush a replacement handset. Fraught due to my screen intolerances. Supplanting ... - Figuring out return of sleep bounce reactions, with no obvious trigger. Waylaying... 1/2

Some phone pics of flowers along my SLR ride a couple weeks ago: - One more Dahlia Monday! - We've no idea what this (opposite the cows), maybe a Garden Tree Mallow? - Common Ivy forming very neat berries (apparently). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 208

Shallow Focus Sunday: - Japanese Mahonia, mid October on an early SLR ride. - Crop in on the dainty little blooms. - Another of half a dozen of these tall bushes I've found around the neighbourhood (sorry, not shallow focus). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 207

#SkySaturday - we're deep into greys and blacks, at least by the time I get up and about!: - Puddle meets sky, waterlogged new estate path. - Moon vs autumn leaves composite, two focal lengths crudely Photoshopped into one sharp image. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 206

Fruit Friday - our household's starting the Christmas death-march, so here's an early festive plant!: - Ilex aquifolium, AKA Holly, mid-October SLR ride. - Japanese Skimmia, back garden pot, September. - Another, out and about not much later. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 205

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday, bonus pics from the corner house September shoot (linked below), for November cheer: - Cyclamen (hederifolium Aiton), in the sun out front. - Different Dahlias, out back. - Nice colours but poor focus. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 204

#HedgerowWednesday - these beasts can be many things: - Intimidating serpentine barrier to mysteries. - Straight sharp roadside skirting-board. - A lumbering life-form in its own right. - Occasional weekend chore. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 203

2 fun highlights from full YT vid: - Davis: BH4's like Methyl-B9, shared synthesis issues for some. Students did mass spec' on yogurts for BH4. - Systrom: muscle mitos fewer in #MEcfs, measuring mtDNA or citrate synthase. No compensatory increase like genetic mito disease (Naviaux).

1/3 #TreeTuesday: - Oak leaves in riotous decay, before the cows the other weekend. - Younger Oaks (I think), in the... - Managed woods, calling in on the way home. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 202

Miserable Monday 🌧 - Gazanias (Treasure Flower), I've been saving this wet pair for a real rainy day (like today)! - Calendula (Pot Marigold), nearby & also damp 3 weeks ago. - More cheery, adjacent gazania opened since: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 201

Shallow Focus Sunday - SLR shots from last weekend: - Veronica (speedwell) variant (Hebe?), new to me, opposite the cows. - Hot lips and... - Fuchsia variant, still hanging on in the weakening light, at the top of our garden. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 200!

Scruffy Saturday - from our neighbourhood on various SLR bike rides: - Dahlias, even look cool disintegrating. - Snapdragon, somehow comfy growing in a high wall! - Michaelmas daisies, big patch, small heads. - Ours in back garden. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 199

#FarmFriday - Excited to finally catch some cows, last weekend, on a flat slow 7km SLR ride reaching the edge of an adjacent village. - Calendula officinalis, in a front garden opposite. (Glad I don't live with that manure smell.) #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 197

#ThrowbackThursday - sedum (stonecrop): - I found some of a variety that had fully opened up, on bike across the main road in September. - Our back garden & corner house's plants just got deeper red. Vs: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 197

#HedgerowWednesday - we are definitely a nation fond of extreme plant shaping. Two of the neatest examples I've spotted (phone pics): - Evergreens cut so sharp & angled they look fake. - Huge bulbus mass of fine-leaved holly. - Bonus cat! (July) #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 196

1/2 #TreeTuesday, or leaf & branch Tuesday? Not so catchy... SLR shots: - Liquidambar (Sweet-gum). - Oak with bonsai-like spiral branch, over pasture field. - Oak leaves of a different variety, wind-swept into the corner of a play-field, elsewhere #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 195

Autumn sun SLR ride 2, a long road I've seldom self propelled along since high school cross-country runs: - Ridge & furrow field, medieval strip farming see [ALT]. - Double tree-lined prettiness. - Sun-haloed weeds, hedge. - Some fool on 2 wheels. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 194

1/2 Shallow Focus Sunday: - Bushgrass/Feathertop (Calamagrostis epigejos), epitomising what I'm after with these weekly SLR shots. Unique long row besides a driveway. - Geraniums by our back door still very red, after the rain, last week. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 193