I ran out of myself

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”

A Mobile - The Sun and Honesty seedpods

These! Real life green men and women. Artists Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen have been on a journey to find them. Their project, “Eyes as Big as Plates,” transforms elders around the world into living sculptures, adorned with the very landscape they inhabit moss, seaweed, branches, and soil.

Inkling Days, I'm talking about different kinds of Inkling days on the lovely podcast Stopping by Hedgerows. It'll only take 6 minutes of your time. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/00iU... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Shadowtackle

I think it's today, the inkling day

I'm very fond of looking at stained glass windows in churches. Often my favourite parts are the unregarded details tucked away in the corners. Plants, animals and birds - the naturey bits - are often to be found there. This is a montage I've made of some of those

Alder leaf - stained glass window (eaten away by alder leaf beetle)

it was like Pompeii for the Ivy people some were trying to escape, others embracing, a kissing couple, this one was caught in the act of climbing over a wall.

She still believed in butterflies

Things That Don't Exist - Peacock They used to think there was a bird with a hundred-eye shimmer for a tail. Rainbow fractured in the facets of a fly's compound eye. And get this - Some still claim to see them.

summerward petals

Brimstone butterfly It's great to see butterflies doing well this year. And insects in general. After an atrocious year last year - it's good to see them bounce back, in this much better weather. It was like the old days - almost.

The thickness of a bat's wing

The canal maiden's long flowing hair

- Because I Could Only Walk Twelve Steps - threw myself forward to where I'd soon be, traveled in the slipstream, like a skein of geese, in person-form the dog I would be walking If I had a dog, sniffed out new routes found novel ways to get lost ....

My, what a long ovipositor you've got . it also has a very excellent latin name - Gasteruption jaculator it has a very, very long ovipositor for laying eggs in the nests of solitary bees and wasps

another journey to the centre of the dandelion macro photograph of a dewy dandelion seedhead

Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. paraphrase of Terry Prachett

peak poppy

Swan Lake a montage of mute swans

it's a baby blue tit slide!

Wall chart of tree leaves the hi res file is free download with the code may2025 also tree buds and bark microcosmic.shop

I was an odd child, life sticking out in all the wrong places the boy I was didn't speak much, not to people anyway the man I am found the words he left in birds, returned them to the boy

-- the pond -- by the pond in always falling daylight misted moon-smitten blue I waited ------------------ My poem - graphic novel style

to be my own siren

phases of the dandelion

Avocet ripples and reflections - stripes are in!

birds are poets telling earth what sky is thinking

another journey to the centre of the dandelion - macro photograph

Six great tit eggs in the garden, hatched yesterday. It's a miracle naked, blind hatchling to being to mini Great tit - a creature that seems to have the 'lights on' - it has that spark...it has - life ...turning caterpillar into bird consciousness magically appearing, seemingly out of nothing

A robin comes to check on my work. As the book that I'm writing has a lot about birds, it's good that I've got one to fact check me :) This is a robin that feeds from my hand , and some time pops in to see what I'm up to. 🙂

More dandelight

dandelight - a dewy dandelion

dark side of the dandelion

My blue shadow

Blue heaven

If heaven exists I think it will be a bluebell wood, it will always be late April, and the sun will always be just coming up. There will be a joyous dawn chorus and the sound of nearby running water.

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"

A horse chestnut bud bursting Not just bursting, but leaping into leaf, jumping for green joy. There's an extravaganza happening right now out there - the best show it town - and country. It's called spring!

Displaying Great Crested Grebes I saw this yesterday - one of the most beautiful 'first signs of spring'. I made a montage of their 'moves'.

True story.... So my partner shouted down from upstairs "Do you ever get a shooting pain across your body, like someone’s got a voodoo doll of you and they're stabbing it?" Obviously I was a bit concerned and replied "No I don't" She shouted back "how about now?"

Sycamore - bud to budburst

this morning I watched the torch get lit - the torch that started the morning

This is the end page of The Spiral of Honesty book - the names of the 64 contributors. The book will be available to buy in a few days - any profit to charity.

a couple of black-tailed godwits having a difference of opinions

Wych Elm is coming into flower now. They're marvelous things - like tiny bouquets of flowers

Few things are more beautiful, to my mind, than a black-tailed godwit coming into summer plumage.

this may well be the closest thing I've seen to a scene from a dream, while being awake flamingos and cherry blossom Martin Mere