👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 07.11.2025 #elevensestime

Church of St Mary, #Ware #Hertfordshire St Catherine, from the Te Deum Window #ChristopherWhall - 1908 “Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, but refreshingly different from the ordinary run of early 20th Century windows.” - #Pevsner guidebook @yalebooks.bsky.social #StainedGlassSunday

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Marigold - 📷 03.11.2025 #elevensestime

Denver, #Norfolk A King Charles III postbox - C III R #PostboxSaturday

Campanile or Bell Tower Duomo di Siena - 1264 The square #Romanesque tower has an octagonal steeple surrounded by four little Pyramid-shaped pinnacles. On each side there are 6 windows which increase in size from the single lancet at the bottom to a sextuple lancet at the top. #SteepleSaturday

“The Sower” #VincentvanGogh - 1888 “Poets & Lovers” exhibition, National Gallery, #London - 2024 Amazed by Van Gogh application of paint - the impression of rapid movement by the sower. The choice of colour, such as the mauve field. Long-term loan at Kunsthaus, Zürich #Art #Impressionism

Firecrest, one of three at Slapton Ley NNR yesterday. All were feeding actively, as was this Chiffchaff in the willows finding insects under the leaves. On the beach - one of a pair of Sanderling down by the water's edge, and in the fenced area a very late-leaving Wheatear.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 31.10.2025 #elevensestime

“The Trumpington Cross” Trumpington bed burial c 650 -710 AD The burial of a female teenager. 1 of only 5 crosses of this type found in Britain. Excavated in 2011. Now Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #Cambridge #FindsFriday #medieval #archaeology

Baptismal font - 1502 The Baptistery of the Duomo, Volterrra, Italy Octagonal font - Andrea Contucci, known as "il Sansovino". Detail - The baptism of Christ #FontsOnFriday

Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s. Which is your favourite? From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain. Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia 📷 by me #Archaeology

“All your ducks in a row” - 🦆 🦆 🦆 Etruscan “navicella-type” bronze fibula 8th-7th Century BCE Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, #Siena

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025 #elevensestime

Saint Barbara #TilmanRiemenschneider - c. 1510 Linden wood, originally painted. “The high quality of the sculpture suggests it was done by the master himself” - museum caption Mainfränkisches Museum, #Würzburg #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

🚶🏻‍♂️ River Great Ouse Relief Channel. #DownhamMarket #Norfolk I particularly love The Fens for the big skies & clouds. These teasels & hawthorn berries provided an interesting contrast with this afternoon’s sky. #FenEdge #TheFens #Cloudscape

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Fuchsia- 📷 01.11.2025 #elevensestime

It's been a while, Bluesky friends. Moving house is qute a business but here we are happily ensconced in Shropshire. There will be churches of the Marches to follow but lets start with hills. The walking is fab.

16th-century majolica tile flooring. Santuario Casa di Santa Caterina #Siena The tiles were produced at a variety of dates, 1504-1505, 1527, 1579-1582, 1598-1599, 1972. Recently restored & now exhibiting some of their original brilliance. #TilesOnTuesday #Renaissance

Lengthening autumnal shadows - Easthall Manor, #Denver #Norfolk #BluePlaque - Captain George William Manby Born 1765 Inventor of a portable fire extinguisher & apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks. Manby’s mortar fired a line from the shore to a wrecked ship so people could be winched ashore.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025 #elevensestime

“The Coronation of the Virgin” (detail) Duomo di #Siena #Italy Mosaic on a pediment of the “west front”. Designer - Luigi Mussini. 1878 Made by - Venetian masters. #MosaicMonday

Ingoldisthorpe, #Norfolk The water droplets 💦 , seemed to really glisten on (what I believe is) Chicory. #WildflowerHour

River Great Ouse #DownhamMarket #Norfolk #Sunset #Reflections #FenEdge #TheFens

🚶🏻‍♂️ River Great Ouse, #Norfolk A silhouetted tree with the setting sun & autumnal #reflections on the river. #FenEdge #TheFens 🧵 2/2

🚶🏻‍♂️ River Great Ouse, #Norfolk The speed of the incoming tide at Stowbridge - 13.5 kilometres / 31.75 miles from the sea beyond Kings Lynn (to left) #FenEdge #TheFens 🧵 1/2

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 28.10.2025 #elevensestime

An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable. The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2 🏺

Chiesa di San Francesco, Pistoia, Italy A stained glass window appropriately featuring St Francis. #StainedGlassSunday

The Walks, Kings Lynn, Norfolk Autumnal colours- #KingsLynn

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Dahlia - 📷 28.10.2025 #elevensestime

Bullhead shaped double lamp - Late 1st Century CE At San Rossore, the wrecks of 30 vessels were discovered in the late 1990s Cargos & everyday items were found including this Roman lamp, found in the flood levels of the shipyard Now in Museo delle Navi Antiche di Pisa, #Pisa #RomanSiteSaturday.

The Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden used to be the railway station. Most crowned heads passed through on their way to take the waters.

Great Bircham, Norfolk A #Victorian postbox set in a brick pillar on the village street. It still has a working flap, where the letters are posted. #PostboxSaturday

St Michael & All Angels Church, #Waterford, #Hertfordshire Designed by Henry Woodyer in 1871/2. A shingled belfry, with a splay-foot spire. The nave is of Kentish rag stone, with a timber porch. #SteepleSaturday

The National Railway Museum, York: an appreciation Always well worth a visit, the National Railway Museum’s extensive renovation makes it even more of a great day out By Ian Richardson @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

“The Cliffs near Land's End” Robert Morson Hughes (1873 - 1953) I love the dramatic scene. The stark, sculptural cliffs & the breaking waves of the sea. Owned by Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall Seen at @penleehousegallery.bsky.social #Art #NewlynSchool

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Marigold - 📷 25.10.2025 #elevensestime

Hispanic amphora, Haltern 70 Ist Century BCE - 2nd Century CE Discovered 1772 - Duomo, Pistoia. Now Museo di San Salvatore, Pistoia A simple reconstructed amphora, but linked to excellent computer simulation - “How to move goods to Pistoia?” #FindsFriday 🧵 1/2 For more about map see next post 👇

18th Century font, The Baptistery of the Duomo, Volterrra, Italy Octagonal font - Giovanni Vaccà. 1759 Statue of John the Baptist - Giovanni Antonio Cybei. 1771 #FontsOnFriday

Burnham Overy Staithe, North Norfolk #Reflections

“Harbour of Saint-Tropez in the sunlight”. Artist - Francis Picabia - 1908 I personally like how the dabs of colour in close-up, create the overall image when viewed from a distance. #Art

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Patio Rose - 📷 Today #elevensestime

"Water Lily" table lamp - 1903/4 Designer & maker - Louis Majorelle Glass - Daum glassworks Chased gilt bronze base, acid-etched & wheel-blown glass globe. Now @museeorsay.bsky.social , Paris. #IronworkThursday #ArtNouveau

#Sunset #Cloudscape View over The Wash from above Dersingham, Norfolk

#Rosewednesday #Roses #Roses Thelast Gertrude Jekyll bloom for the year

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Rose - 📷 28.10.2025 #elevensestime

An oak angled showcase - 1904/6 Antoni Gaudí Originally in the dining room of Casa Battló, Barcelona, Spain Now @museeorsay.bsky.social , Paris, France #Woodensday #WoodcarvingWednesday

“On the Bench in the Bois” (detail) Giovanni Boldini - 1872 Young Italian artists Boldini & De Nittis arrived in Paris soon after Franco Prussian War & violence of The Commune. Their art reflected a “desire for lightness”. “Belle Époque” exhibition. Palazzo Blu, #Pisa #Italy #Art #BelleEpoque

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - #DownhamMarket #Norfolk Nasturtium - 📷 27.10.2025 #elevensestime

“Visiting the Imprisoned” by Santi Buglioni. Museo dello Spedale del Ceppo, Pistoia One of the panels in a glazed terracotta freeze - “The Seven Acts of Mercy”. It was commissioned by Leonardo Buonafede (the 'hospitalier') who appears in each scene. 1526-8. (See ALT text) #TilesOnTuesday