#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

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The weather is so wet and grey and the garden so sodden I have had to resort to watercolour memories for this week’s crop

That last line is FIRE 🔥

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision A touch of frost

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTelevision Cosmos

🌱 #MondayMagenta #Bloomscrolling Peonies from May

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTelevision The darling buds of May

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The last of the cosmos hanging on, but the rest of the garden has donned its autumn mantle

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadows Shadows and light in Laon Cathedral

Private Eye nailing it.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #womensart

🌱 #MondayMagenta #Bloomscrolling

'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. Find out more in the first Womensart book, Unravelling Women's Art on textile artist rebels and pioneers!

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It’s too wet and windy to brave the garden and many of the dahlias were broken in the storm, so here are some of this spring’s tulips, because I did manage to plant some earlier in the week.

Embroidered leaves by US artist Hillary Waters Fayle #WomensArt

🌱 #flowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Monkshood in the sunshine

Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQuiet

Julia Lucey, contemporary US printmaker who uses traditional etching and aquatint techniques to explore nature, wildness, wilderness #womensart

🌱 #Bloomscrolling That’s it… it’s officially the end of summer when the outdoor indoor plants carry out their annual migration to warmer climes!

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Bacardi and islander have finally opened, and were worth waiting for. It’s been an unusually dry autumn so far, and not overly cold so some of the zinnias just keep going

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Two tardy dahlias, only just getting their act together. But still very welcome

#AlphabetChalleng #WeekPForPink Tangalle sunset

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPink Pink perfection

🌱 #MagentaMonday #Bloomscrolling A surprise late bloom from a (normally) one time flowering rose

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Cool and damp, but still frost free, and the dahlias just keep on giving.

🌱 #FridayFlowers #Bloomscrolling Started the big plant! I see tulip planting as the big end of year tidy, it always takes me five times longer than it should, but I love it. It takes away the pre-winter doom.

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT." -Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It’s blowing a hoolie and stair rodding it down, so photos from earlier in the week when there was sunshine and flowers

🌱 Autumn sunshine returning the allure to the garden after days of grey. #Bloomscrolling