I don’t know about you, but I will take any chance I get to celebrate something in this oubliette we are calling earth That brings me to… Nollaig na mBan, or women’s Christmas, an Irish tradition that recognizes women’s hard work. Take a moment to celebrate your loved ones and all they do ❤️

Do cows so looowws or mooooo

#rockintuesday with me and the main man from Northumberland coast a few years ago #eastcoastkin

youtu.be/14xo8s-0kU4 May be my new favourite #movie. Astonishingly wonderful documentary abt traditional N Macedonia farming life, community, love bw humans &animals, climate change &economic upheaval. &the #birds, the otherworldly clacking storks.Prepare to be moved, disturbed uplifted &laughing

🎶 Take me Home, Country Roads 🎶. —John Denver #Mountainmonday #BlueSkyMonday #colorado #rockies #sky #clouds #winter #snow #travel #ontheroad #nature #photography

“I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” -Anne Frank 🕊️ #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #sky #clouds #nature #snow #scape #winter

Yesterday’s chilly but gorgeous #kayaking Thanking the dry suit gods for the lack of hypothermia today ☺️ #blueskymonday #eastcoastkin

I looked for an hour for a quote tonight none were right either too dark or too light for today I want to encourage to quote of beauty and hope of freedom and sanity and these are the only words I can find

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." -Howard Zinn

Another view at Bath Spa today! #Stunday

‘Every falling leaf is a tiny kite with a string too small to see, held by the part of me in charge of making beauty out of grief Andrea Gibson #stunday #imageandverse #classicmono #eastcoastkin

#BNWMacro Peace lily #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #Macro #ClassicMono #PeaceLily

"Love is a flame that burns with sacred fire, And fills the being up with sweet desire; Yet, once the altar feels love’s fiery breath, The heart must be a crucible till death." - G.M. McClellan. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #stunday #macro #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #ImageAndVerse

Week 1 (Jan 1 – Jan 5): “New Beginnings” #artofselfportrait #classicmono

First snowdrop I’ve met his year #stunday #eastcoastkin

#stunday from our river years ago. He brought the stunning to every day ‘When the herds of the rain were grazing In the gap of the pure cold wind &the watery hazes of the hazel Brought her into my mind, I thought of the last honey by the water That no hive can find.’ A Clarke #imageandverse

Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. -Yoko Ono, Season of Glass #BlueSkyArtShow #NewYear #Januarty #Tree

Happy #caturday from my friend’s cat in her hidey hole. #eastcoastkin

#BlueSkyArtShow #NewYear #EastCoastKin

#newyear #Swimswim 1..1.26 London fields lido The utter contrast with how last year started, &how my body can work now after those injuries, is something I’m so truly grateful for (pretty grateful for slightly heated outdoor pools in the winter too, magical place!) #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

#BlueSkyArtShow #NewYear dawns in #Ireland #Sunrise #photography #EastCoastKin

‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday January 3, 2026 The theme is #NewYear Let's see those fireworks, the party food, the year end retrospectives, the resolutions. Use both tags to be included in the feed #art #artists #supportartists #makeart #photgraphy #drawing #painting #sketching

OK, last sunset pic... promise! This is what you get after the tide goes out. Rivulets carved into the sand that reflect the sunset sky.

A picture of my daughter on the beach at Capbreton around sunset, taken with my Laowa 12mm.

Hi ho Hi ho It’s off to work I go 🎶 Commute; the beauty edition Luscious Lea #scape happy Friday #riverscape day #eastcoastkin Hope the new year is golden for you

Happy new year to you all. Thank you for the company the beauty and the humour. This has been an exceptionally really year but this is the energy I’m bringing to 2026. Hope it’s a spectacular one

#rockintuesday #eastcoastkin

A favorite #BirdButt #BirdoftheDay #EastCoastKin #birds 🪶 #photography

Love this love poem

A sappy love poem ❤️ It’s the way you show up It’s the things you say It’s the questions you ask How you go out of your way It’s the good mornings And goodnights And the way we Never fight 1/2 #poetry #photography #eastcoastkin 📸 @newyorkerjj.bsky.social

Good Morning Everyone Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdButts, yes it's the time for 'RearOfTheYear'. The Alternative is #Pigeons I've gone with Walter Wren, Larry Long-tailed Tit, Kerri Kingfisher & Gary Goosander from various venues in 2025 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin @rspb.bsky.social

The black horse of Blackhorse Road on #blueskymonday

Here are the #ArtChallenge hosts that I know of.

A great blue heron portrait at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado. #StunDay #ClassicMono #Monochrome #BW #Blackandwhite #EastCoastKin #bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos #wetland #wetlands #greatblueheron #greatblueherons #heron #herons

Be nice to the #nhs peeps in your lives please guys. It’s bussssyyyy. And get all the vaccines you’re offered, please and thank you.

#Stunday #SundayYellow #SundaySharing #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #macro #macrophotography And it was all yellow 💛😊

one day you’ll put your hands in the earth&understand an afterlife isn’t promised, but the spray of scorpion grass keeps growing&the dogs will sing their whole bodies in praise of you & … you’ll let the world soften you with its touching Ruth Awad (poem in alt) #imageandverse #stunday #eastcoastkin

‘Future self’ imagine what you’ll be in 10 years Face to the light double exposure #selfportraitsunday @selfportraiture.bsky.social #eastcoastkin

#BlueSkyArtShow #Holiday

#10minutesfromhome Sunset in the (fake)mist at Heaton Park yesterday

‪Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday December 27, 2025 The theme is #Holiday With over a dozen holidays happening there should be no trouble finding images to share this week. Show us what you love and how you celebrate! Use both tags to be included in the feed #art #artists #supportartists #makeart

Archive shot Dec 2023, London #holiday #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin

#birdoftheday #mostrecent #eastcoastkin A pensive heron youngster

Saw it…. Liked it…. So I clicked it…..

'Heaven's Tears' (2013) -- Chelsea Gallery District, Manhattan, NYC 'The present moment is eternity in disguise; live it fully' --Various Happy Xmas / Boxing Day!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Every Friday we #Scape!!✨🥰 #ImageAndVerse ✨ #Photography #Portraiture #Monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

Sudden light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound,the lights around the shore Dante Gabriel Rossetti #scape #imageandverse #classicmono #eastcoastkin Couldn’t decide between colour and b&w,opinions welcome

@craig.nikolic.co.uk big thanks to you for the occupational glasses recommendation; got some, think they’ll be a game changer! Happy Christmas

Posting this from insta. If you’re North or East London based and #alone this #christmas pop by the wonderful Dusty Knuckle Dalston, for a warm welcome, cuppa and pastry #christmasday 10-1.