Another 🦋 for @rina2012.bsky.social's #ButterflyWeek. I believe this is an owl butterfly, it was huge! I saw it up close on a visit to the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam last April with my sister. I also love the Dutch word for butterflies, "vlinders" - it feels very apt! #Butterfly #Tropical

I just found out about @rina2012.bsky.social's #ButterflyWeek, so here is one from me! 🦋 Small copper butterfly, seen in the Thornielee Forest, Scottish Borders, August 2021. #Butterfly #ShotOnCanon #Noticing #ProtectNature #Stunday

A lovely (beech?) tree at the edge of the Gala Policies, a local woodland here in Galashiels. 🌳 It is part of the Southern Upland Way, which is a route spanning from the west coast of Scotland right across to the east coast. #Edge #BlueskyArtShow #Scotland #ScottishBorders

"Please mind the gap." #Edge #BlueskyArtShow #MindTheGap

The #edge of this street sign in Kirkcaldy had all crumbled away. #BlueSkyArtShow

Snapshot from the #edge of a city (Edinburgh), looking towards Arthur's Seat. #BlueskyArtShow

Martin Gregus Jr. captured a pod of narwhals on film: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Slightly belated post for World Art Day. 💜 I drew this for someone who used to teach me when I lived in Berlin. 🇩🇪 Something that feels like a long time ago now, but I fondly remember. 🌺 A *lot* less screen time in those days - no bad thing! I defo did a lot more drawing back then. #AnalogueArt

We stand in solidarity with everyone facing racism, homophobia, anti-migrant rhetoric, and fear-driven politics. And we stand alongside our trans+ siblings, today and always. If you’re a cis woman who believes in standing together in support of trans+ people, sign our letter: notinourname.org.uk

It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. #bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature #art #landscapephotography #naturephotography #sunrise

I couldn’t resist getting a whole digital booklet full of watercolour kitties from @anaisfae.art’s Ko-fi shop, and it did not disappoint. Really beautiful art and brought me such joy. 💜🐈‍⬛

This is the money dragon. RT to be blessed by the money dragon and receive fortunes beyond your ken

Keeping with the purple theme, bluebells are one of my favourite signs of spring. 💜 #BlueskyArtShow #new

A lovely anemone 💜 #BlueskyArtShow #new #ShotOnCanon

I’m fundraising for Cancer Research UK - and will be taking part in the Race for Life in June. 🩷 If you’d like to sponsor me, here’s my updated link: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cats-ra...

Pretty tulips for #TulipTuesday, from a visit to the rather lovely Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam with my sis last April. 🌷 #Bloomscrolling #BotanicalGarden

It's #WildFlowerHour! Submitting these cowslips for the #CowslipChallenge - haven't spotted many yet to date (this year) here in the Scottish Borders, but they were popping up all over the lawn at my parents' house around this time last year. 💛 #Cowslip #Wildflowers #Springtime

Another one for #openings - looking up at the skylight of one of the old tenement flats I used to call home, in Leith, Edinburgh. (I lived in several, in different parts of the city over the years!) #BlueskyArtShow

Probably one of the most ornate doorways I have ever seen. Intricately carved stone archway internal to St. Giles' Cathedral in the centre of Edinburgh. #openings #BlueskyArtShow

View from a train crossing the Forth Bridge, looking at the Forth Road Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing behind it. 🌉 #Openings #BlueskyArtShow #ViewsOfScotland

A Secret Garden. 💚 #BlueSkyArtShow #Openings

Flowers for you all on a Friday. 🌼 I love how delicate the petals were on these daffodils. #BloomScrolling #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFriday #Daffodils

'Tis #TulipTuesday! 🌷 Photo from a visit to Keukenhof in the Netherlands many moons ago. #Bloomscrolling #Keukenhof

"O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune." 🌹 - excerpt from A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns #MonochromeMonday #Bloomscrolling #ScotsPoetry

This is one of my favourite photos I've taken of this view of the Eildon Hills from a section of the Southern Upland Way that rises above the Border town of Galashiels. The light was just stunning! #Background #BlueskyArtShow #Scotland

How's this for a #background? View from the plateau of the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders (far south of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) from my hike last weekend. It's a great where you can see for miles around - even across to the land border w/ England, which is about an hour's drive away. #BlueskyArtShow #Scotland

Trongate 103, a vibrant arts & culture hub in Glasgow, is under threat & multiple cultural organisations resident there are currently facing eviction. It's cultural vandalism of the highest order. Please sign + share the petition to help save it: www.change.org/p/save-trong... #Glasgow #Culture

I hiked up the Eildon Hills on Sat. Hard work, but I was rewarded with beautiful views. On the plateau of Eildon Hill North, you can see for miles - inc. over the border to Northumberland! (It’s only about an hour from Gala to Carter Bar.) Even saw some red grouse, which was cool. #Scotland #Hills

I’m not religious (not even entirely sure how I’d begin to categorise my beliefs!), but I can appreciate a beautifully-carved gravestone. 🤍 This one looked lovely in the golden-hour sunlight at Eastlands Cemetery in Galashiels. #BlueskyArtShow #Stone #ShotOnCanon

Carved headstone at Kelso Abbey in the Scottish Borders. #BlueskyArtShow #Stone

A statue of William Wallace hewn from red sandstone, which stands 31 feet high (over 9 metres!) in Bemersyde, near Dryburgh in the Scottish Borders. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 He keeps a watchful eye over the River Tweed and the surrounding landscape, looking towards the Eildon Hills. #Scotland #BlueskyArtShow #Stone

Noticing little details at Abbotsford, the home of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott. #BlueskyArtShow #Stone

A view of one of Edinburgh’s old cobbled streets, looking towards the castle. #BlueskyArtShow #Stone

🌷Spring Equinox is here! 🌷 (for the N Hemisphere, at least) I took this on a glorious spring day at Keukenhof 🇳🇱. Such beautiful blooms, my mum & I loved wandering the gardens. I had no idea there were sooo many different varieties of tulip & the hyacinths were heavenly! 🥰 #Bloomscrolling #Keukenhof

Reference vs #Art

Well, today it’s officially 365 days since I last had a drink. The irony is that I feel pretty rough, thanks to *horrendous* menstrual cramps… but hey, at least it’s not self-inflicted morning-after-the-night-before misery, I suppose! 😅

Scott’s View, looking towards the Eildon Hills, so named because it was a favourite vantage point of Sir Walter Scott, whose home Abbotsford is a short distance away. #Stunday #Scotland #ScottishBorders

My sketchbook strata. 🩵 I’ve been using sketchbooks as part of my creative practice for around 30+ years now. They feel even more personal than a diary in a way, as there are things in them I would find difficult to express in words. #BlueskyArtShow #Horizontal #sketchbooks

Looking up at one of the decorative skylights at Edinburgh Waverley train station in the Scottish capital. 🚂 #BlueskyArtShow #Horizontal

I’m doing the Race for Life in aid of Cancer Research this year. I signed up as my sister has had the life-altering experience of a cancer diagnosis, treatments, all-clear, recurrence, surgery, the works. If you’d like to sponsor me, my page is here: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/cats-ra...

View of the river #flowing towards Talla Reservoir in the south of Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Just one of several that supplies water to the city of Edinburgh, around 40 miles to the north. #BlueskyArtShow #ShotOnCanon #ScottishScenery

The River Tweed #flowing over rocks at Melrose in the Scottish Borders. #BlueskyArtShow

Love this stopframe animation by Ameya’s Realm. Magical! 🐈 youtu.be/j4peeTNUEmU

Some floral sunshine, just because. 🌞 📷 Photo taken April 2021, in Edinburgh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #TulipTuesday #Bloomscrolling #Edinburgh

Flower Moon. 🌸 #BlueskyArtShow #Round #Bloomscrolling

Extreme close-up of an anemone 💜 #BlueskyArtShow #Round #Bloomscrolling

#BlueskyArtShow #Round

Spread love, not hate. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍 #TagTuesday #StreetArt #StencilGraffiti

I made this cyanotype print with #two pieces of lace. Fun technique to experiment with! 💙 Historically interesting too - a botanist named Anna Atkins was a pioneer of this early form of photography & published the first book with (her) photographic illustrations in 1843. #BlueskyArtShow #Cyanotype

I had a lot of fun playing with this chunky vintage wooden type at a letterpress workshop hosted by Robert Smail’s Printing Works, a Victorian-era industrial heritage museum run by @n-t-s.bsky.social in Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders. #WoodType #Letterpress #Typography #BlueskyArtShow #Wood