For those who know about #SnecklifterTuesday in the Other Place this is today’s Snecklifter through the Eye of a Stoop (stone gatepost) 😁

West Cumbrian Pastoral

Boxing Day bonfire 🔥

Miniature Shed Nativity with wooden animal spectators (and a sheep angel) 🌟🐑

Teddy bears’ picnic and a growing collection of mini Christmas trees🎄#ChristmasDecorations 🎄🎄🎄

Village Christmas tree 🎄

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

Mist and frost in Evenlode Valley

Apple tree in December, West Oxfordshire

A pretty pigeon outside the Bodleian Library in Oxford

Came back from Tunbridge Wells with a tiny crocheted octopus 🐙, made for me by friend’s daughter to match the blue & teal fair isle jumper I was wearing - he has settled next to one of @vimtotime.bsky.social ‘s friendos 🩵

RHS Wisley in the rain yesterday: nice and warm in the Glasshouse

Favourite sycamore tree during and after the snow last week

Derwentwater at Sunset

Snow in Lorton Vale from Kirk Fell

Village bonfire in farmer’s field 🔥

Rowan tree at Sunset Transplanted from the shore of Crummock Water to West Oxfordshire when it was a 6 inch high seedling 🌱

Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social - @soapywittank.bsky.social reminds it is your Official Birthday so here is a knitted pumpkin 🎃 I bought in the Chelsea Physic Garden shop I am on bus back to Oxford and lent it to a crying toddler, who calmed down magically 🧡

Evensong at Christ Church for festival of St Frideswide

Equinoctial Sunsets in West Oxon

Wet day on Low Fell

Rainbow in West Cumbria 🌈

Herdwicks at Keswick Show

Buzzards in the Blue Sky

Wildflower meadow in West Oxon

Oxford 💙

Got back from moving dead wood and vegetation from under an old pussy willow tree, washed hands, looked in bathroom mirror, and this grand creature was perched on strap of vest top - difficult to persuade it to transfer to a leaf 🤪 @vimtotime.bsky.social might know its name

The wind that shakes the barley

Dandelion clock

St Bega’s Church Bassenthwaite with Skiddaw, oak & ash trees, and geese

Ponies by Crummock Water

Herdwick ewes and lambs 🩶🤍🖤

Crummock Water 💙

Mass on the anniversary of the first Fatima apparition, 13th May: 270,000 people there

Rosary at Fatima, 12th May

Blue sky, blue sea, and cloudage on ✈️ to Lisbon @lakesstiles.bsky.social @tutty352.bsky.social

Taking sheep back to the fell

Great @arcdurham.bsky.social fieldtrip to Castlerigg stone circle today

Familiar background whispering from the back room of any antiquarian bookshop 📚

Forest scenes

Spring in Wychwood Forest, West Oxfordshire

Golden Spirals at Sunset 🌅

That’s how the light gets through Golden Spirals II by @sculptedinstone.bsky.social 🧵

Found a fossilised clam while weeding a flowerbed #limestone #Cotswolds

Village path and rising Moon

Rocco the little rescue cat, who’s been staying while his people are on holiday, watching a pigeon in the yard 🐈‍⬛🖤

Blackthorn and blue sky 💙

Contrasting waterfalls and bridges: Easedale, Lake District and Charlecote Park, Warwickshire this week @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Stoop and wall, Great Langdale

A Langdale roller for @northernfell.bsky.social