Cosy cat at Ca'n Picafort #majorca #photography

Annie Rie, contemporary stained glass artist inspired by the UK countryside #womensart

'If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word' Happy birthday Margaret Atwood! Novelist, essayist, poet, activist, inventor, occasional puppeteer and full time genius - few writers have shaped our imaginations quite like her: waterstones.com/author/marga... 🥳

Cape Spring, South Africa, September 2007, #photography #flora

Try explaining to someone outside the UK that this road, shared with walkers, cyclists and horse riders, legally has a 60mph speed limit. Madness, really.

Zgornja Radovna, Slovenia, a glorious evening in the Julian Alps, July 2025 #photography

A ray of sunshine. A Speckled Wood in our porch, waiting to greet me when I got home today. An early appearance in Shropshire, surely. #ukbutterflies #photography

Another of my tree drawings from the past, for today's #thicktrunktuesday. A Beech (Fagus sylvatica) at the top of a steep valley-side slope in the foothill zone of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, Scotland. Pen drawing; 21 x 30 cm.

Island life. St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. April 2019. #photography

Another of my tree drawings from past years, for #thicktrunktuesday. This is a pen drawing of The Darnaway Oak, in Moray, northern Scotland. This tree has a trunk circumference exceeding 9 metres and is thought to be at least 700 years old. Drawing size: 21 x 30 cm.

Tarifa, Algarve, Portugal, 2017. Blue sky for a grey day. #photography

Sun artwork ☀️ Helios is heading to Old Royal Naval College, London. Visit for some winter Sun & explore Sunspots, spicules and the origins of solar flares…https://ornc.org/whats-on/helios/ #heliosartwork

Bird Nests,Ghana, 16.01.2012. #photography

So the Delia group of butterflies of Australia are a real gem! Here is the first seen on our trip - the Yellow-banded Jezebel...🦋🦋 #AusInverts #WildOz #Insects #Butterflies #BugSky #ArtAdventCalendar

Proboscis crossing. March 2014 #photography

Tesco, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. April 2019 #photography

This is not the highly-magnified antennae of some exotic insect, nor is it a fancy toilet brush ~ it’s the magnificent skeleton of a sting ray

Scrooge Rage: A grave situation in Shrewsbury open.substack.com/pub/shaunpau...

Bexhill (De La War) Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, June 2006 #photography

Blue sky for Bluesky. Algarve, Portugal, Spring 2017. #photography

You can sense the slickness of the wet street in this 1929 woodblock print ‘Flower Street after Night Rain’ (Yoshida Hiroshi), then warm up in the cosiness of ‘Noodle Restaurant on A Rainy Night’ (Tomikichiro Tokuriki)

Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech, April 2014. #photography

Dylan Thomas's writing shed,Laugharne, 2021. #photography

Margaret Bourke-White, intrepid photojournalist for Life magazine, seen here setting up her camera on a metal eagle sculpture on the 61st story of Chrysler Building, NY (1934) ~ photographed by Oscar Graubner from a less precarious perch!

Christmas shop, York, 2023. I don't think it's too soon 😀 #photography

Open, Jerome Arizona, 2013. #photography

Evening, Topsham Devon, 2014. #photography

Dawn, Elim dunes, Namib desert, 2017. #photography

Happy ending, Kinvarra July 2024

Tokyo 2019 #photography