#MondayMagenta #Bloomscrolling Merlot tulips

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Peak tulip in actual sunshine!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Peak tulip

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Another chilly, wet week, barely breaking double figures, the tulips don’t mind and are keeping their colours, but the seedlings seem to ne on strike

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies Best exotic marigold hotel

Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Scottish illustrator, jewellery/fabric designer, one of the artists known as the 'Glasgow Girls' #womensart

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A chilly week but things are happening in the garden

#AlphabetChallange #WeekLForLayers

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The tulips are starting to flower, all is right in the garden!

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It’s all about the bulbs for the next few weeks, the first tulips are colouring up, and the crown imperials are getting ready for easter.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJuxtaposition

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart

Trump´s strategies are those of an eleven year old playing Risk, forgetting that the other players also get reinforcements and troop movements, and indeed turns.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Frosty mornings and sunny days and a garden full of potential

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 promiscuous primroses popping up everywhere

Favianna Rodriguez, contemporary US poster designer and activist of Afro-Peruvian heritage, #womensart

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInteriors Interior inspection by moth hygiene unit

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 Back to grey after two proper sunny days, the fields are underwater but life is flooding back. The chiff chaffs are in full voice and I saw storks wheeling over the supermarket (a traditional sign of spring 😉)

#AlphabetChallenge #BonusHomonym

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHForHs Hollyhock

🌱 First sunny day since I don’t know when! Amazing how a little light changes your perspective on everything. #Bloomscrolling

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGForGames Apple bobbing

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 I enthusiastically went out at first light because no rain was forecast, only to discover the tiniest snowflakes were falling and a bitter wind blowing, being a lightweight I retreated. However, the first zinnias have sprouted on the window sill, there are signs…

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFForFramed

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It’s definitely not spring, but the signs are there, and I have the itch to start sowing seeds. It feels like the first sunny Saturday for a very long time!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEForEponymous Dahlias named after Anders Dahl a Swedish botanist

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDramatic

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCloseup Detail of a 15th century painting showing a rather excellent double goose carrying system

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBooks

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZForZero Zero degrees

Solstice blessings

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYForYearPast There will be flowers again

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Watercolour Thankfully the days are about to start getting longer but the garden is looking bleak, we’re both in shutdown. So when I can’t garden amongst the flowers I paint them

Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #WomensArt

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Tiny tiny flowers

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXForXmas

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Moody blues or deep purple? A reminder that it won’t be wet and grey forever

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Peonies to look forward to, as the days get shorter and greyer

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVForVowels Euphorbia

🌱 #SevenOnSunday #Bloomscrolling November snow!

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It snowed yesterday! So here is a reminder of some of the pale nit interesting roses from the summer

Textile artist Britta Marakatt-Labba's embroidery of Sami culture, Indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic #womensart

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnlovef

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved

enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool