In the Schoolhouse bothy on the Cape Wrath Trail. #Alphabetchallenge #WeekWForWindows

Rauõasandur, which simply means Red Sand, in NW Iceland #TidesOutTuesday

For #TidesOutTuesday , beach at Culbin Forest, between Nairn and Findhorn on the Moray coast.

Robin of the Day: Snow Mountain Robin 📷 Jonas Landolt

A herd of deer might signify far more than just a few hoofed ruminant ungulates. At the very least according to Irish traditions. Our 3rd #yulefolklore tale takes us to the banks of the Boyne in County Meath where we meet them near an old, old place. Follow the deer in the link below. 🎨 C. Hyde

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2 No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like artist Rowland Hilder

Amazing.

Into December. Looking forward to bringing in some holly. #GardensHour

Thank you all for sharing your December garden plans with #GardensHour Next week, we’ll look back over your highlights of 2025 - scroll back through your photos and remind yourself of the joys of the past year. See you then! 👋

Lamium is looking great at the moment, really bright, as we tip toe into mulching season. @gardenshour.bsky.social #GardensHour

A surprise flower from my rex begonia. I've had a run of unexpected houseplant inflorescences just recently in fact, plants that had never flowered before, so I must be doing something right. 🌱🪴 #GardensHour #MacroMonday #PinkMon #EastCoastKin #PlantSky

#gardenshour Weird amber light a few days ago about 8.30am when we had a day or two of 60mph+ winds here in Sutherland...

"With its bony staff tapping out a grim tally, it seeks not to celebrate but to reckon sins. Some say it wears a cloak patched with the garments of its victims, its face hidden beneath a hood. Others whisper it has no face at all." www.tumblr.com/whatthecrowt...

Yesterday in the C'gorms 😀 Though I spend the whole year eagerly anticipating days like this, even when they actually happen I'm still taken aback at how beautiful & uplifting they are 😆 In the depths of winter, when brightness is in short supply, snowfields under a blue sky are a shot in the arm 😎

Some snowy hills of Sutherland sticking up above the cloud on a walk up above our house last winter. #mountainmonday #BlueSkyMonday

“Night's black Mantle covers all alike.” (Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas) 🎨 Benjamin Rabier #owlishmonday

#MythologyMonday From Lleu Law Gyffes dropping from Arianrhod`s womb as she steps over an enchanted branch, to Pryderi being stolen by some unseen creature and growing preternaturally quickly, the Mabinogion is filled with strange stories of the births its heroes. 1/2

Bertvent is a countdown of my favourite books of the year. Every day until Christmas Eve, the first customer to spend £20 on books will get the chance to unwrap that day’s title and keep it for themselves at no extra cost.

Recycling our lovely little #birds #adventcalendar which some loved ones gave us. This is its third outing!😂 We can almost predict the birds now! December 1st is a cute little wren🥰 #advent #BlueSkyMonday

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1 ‘The village’ Artist: SR Badmin

In Llanbedr Church, near Crickhowell, S Wales. Taken in 2012 when we were walking The Beacons Way. Beautiful window (on a VERY rainy day—we were togged up in all our waterproofs)! #StainedGlassSunday #bannaubrecheiniog

Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

Went out to Anamori-inari today. Just a few stops on the Keikyu Line from our place. Light was beautiful. Had some slow time, shooting with the Hasselblad 503CW and CFV50c back. A setup with eccentricities, for sure. So it makes me shoot very differently. Night night Luv&peace 🙏❤️

Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter

Follow this person…you won’t regret it. 👇

Book Cover of the Day:

The "Shipping forecast" stairs at Dunbar for #SaturdayStairs Photo from when we spent a week near there early September. #ukweather #shippingforecast #scotland

Will definitely be checking this book out after watching Robbie's review on Marginal Reads! Even though written in the 60s, looks so relevant to today. "Welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic 1967 dystopia …" youtu.be/nTTATPfOZqc?... #bookwormsat #booksky #books

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.” #BookWormSat 🖊️ Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird #BookChatWeekly 🎨 Penguin Classic

"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself." -A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle #BookWormSat

Recently found The Fontana Book of Ghost Stories series! So I am now gradually making my way through these!😁👻💀👹 #bookwormsaturday #books #booksky #ghoststories #weirdfiction

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS Inspired by the tidal waterways in the lowcountry of South Carolina. All prints on sale. Use code SAVE20 for 20% off everything. TIDAL WETLANDS, 16x16”, Acrylic on Panel #artist #artwork #painting

Lollipops - not the sharpest photo I’ve ever taken but I really like this. Long tailed tits (Aegithalos caudatus) on an empty feeder at Severn Valley Park @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @sosshropshirebirds.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Black bulgar (Bulgaria inquinans) 🌱🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushrooms #fungus #moss #Autumn #nature

A recent local walk of ours above the Falls of Shin on one of the better days weather-wise for #forestfriday #autumn #scotland #highlands

Still plenty of these to eat in the garden... #purplefriday #garden #vegetables

Don’t forget, if you want to sign up for our Secret Santa you’ve only got until Sunday evening to do it! - Michael

Want some nice portrait photos in Tokyo? Ask my 135mm f/2 to drag me out the house. 😜

Found another real estate gem, in London this time. It's gorgeous, like a time capsule. The front door alone is magical, you'd imagine bumping into Victorian street urchins some foggy evening. The building is over 300 years old, lets go inside.

Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November

To infinity and beyond

#sunrise #highlands #scotland

Book Cover of the Day:

Looking out of the window this morning, a cloud inversion over Loch Shin makes it look as though there is a greater body of water there!

Nothing much this month except I went and wrote a book :-). It’s with the editor right now and there’s more information here. Possible cover with working title attached here. #gardenshour gardeningwell.ie/book @gardenshour.bsky.social

Meyer lemons are coming along nicely. Turning a beautiful shade of yellow, right on schedule. 🙂 #GardensHour #garden #nature

November is coming to an end but the surprises continue. My first olive! Looks like my roses will make it to #December even if the Cannas don’t. #Gardenshour #Gardening #Gardens 🌱