And this morning the Shed is a dovecote, all grey with mist and feathers…

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procession of clouds the plain face of an old house blooming with shadows

A parasol mushroom. A pretty big one too. #nature #photography #NaturePhotography #BlueskyPhotography #fotografía #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #fungi

Photopoem shared 18th May 2026

spring rain she holds her umbrella upside down #haiku #senryu #spring #blooms

🌱 violet blooming in the path, I forget my question #haiku #senryu #spring

Litel Free Libraryes have proliferatid, bringinge delighte. But their more mysterious, more sinister cousins are nowe beginninge to appear. Goode people! No mattir how jaunty the signe, no mattir how supposedlye nonexistent the cost, nevir evir evir walke thrugh the door of a Litel Free Labyrinth.

Worth another posting. The knitting caught my attention first…then I read the words. Wonderful 🧶 #knit

Brightly coloured minerals are a lot of fun!! This botryoidal smithsonite looks like some sort of rounded candy. But don’t eat it!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Flower of the day. Columbine. Aquilegia "Blue Jay" (from the songbird series) #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #columbine #nature #EastCoastKin

The creatures waiting for homes are having a little tea party today.

Today is Omar Khayyam’s 978th birthday (May 18, 1048 - December 4, 1131) A brilliant scholar, respected for his work in mathematics and astronomy. His rubaiyat are small poems with a long shadow - a reminder that life is too brief to waste. ⏰📚💙 #Khayyam #poet #writer #poem #poetry #books #book

Good morning. Summer has arrived on this lovely Victoria Day long weekend. It’s going up to 29C or 84.2 Fahrenheit.

People: it's outrageous that my local council can't fix all the potholes. Also people: I'm driving around in a very heavy SUV, parking on pavements and I want to pay less tax, not more.

Meadow sage #macro 💜💜💜 Happy #MacroMonday

Good morning and happy Monday to you all 😊☀️🐝

Hello Monday🫶🌺💜🍃🌸

Never have I ever been more utterly supportive of anything than I am of this post. Feck RIGHT OFF with your “best life” bollocks.

Baby otters are adorable.🥰

I snuck up on some mushrooms under a fallen log. I think they were having a meeting or something.

oh gr8 more months of politicians humming & hawing over whether Brexit has been disastrous for the UK rather than treating the public like adults and saying it’s been a disaster inflicted by Farage

FunguSunday! A bunch of fairy inkcaps. A tiny, fairy village 😍🧚‍♀️🍄‍🟫 #mushroom

Artwork by contemporary printmaker and illustrator Diana Catchpole #WomensArt

New poem on my blog - 'ONE WORD' joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2026/05/one-... #BookSky #poetry

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Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

Your daily affirmation: I am smart. I am strong. It's ok if I explode into a clattering cloud of ravens instead of answering another work email.

Walk in the woods, Lee Moor Heard cuckoos calling at various points along the route, an increasingly rare sound in recent years #Dartmoor #Devon

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 268: If you’re planning to set your book in a real- world place, you owe it to your readers to know as much about it as possible. Ideally, go there. Spend time, preferably not as a tourist. Talk to locals. Eat local food. Some things can’t be researched online.

Paine falls but always with grace #haiku #senryu

"Solidarity Now! Protect our communities" Mural seen in Seattle

David Attenborough Fans The Greater Blue-Eared starling: a living jewel of the African savanna. www.facebook.com/reel/2075156...

Pansy #Macro 💜💙💛 #MacroMonday

Good morning/afternoon photo by Edward Selfe

Seen while hiking the Cliff Mine site in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula for #MushroomMonday!

Buttercups at dawn. Taken this morning in Glastonbury.

More of these, please #MorelMonday #MushroomMonday 🍄‍🟫

Just go ahead and go through the tunnel. You will be happy you did! How could you not be? It’s a BEAUTIFUL mossy ferny forest full of magic. Let’s goooooooo 😆 ☀️🌲 I hope you all have the day you wish for 🩵✌️ #trails #forest #nature #mossymonday

We should be investing in clean energy, not fossil fuels, and all these data centers should be equipped with solar.

If only there were some sort of beloved story about the perils of using a fundamentally corrupt technology created for evil ends, even if you yourself have pure motives. Ideally one which made it clear at the end that there can be no compromise with inherent evil, it must just be stamped out.

Manor. Around 1400, the Percy family exchanged their Wharram holdings with the Hylton family. It was the subsequent landlords who later initiated the sheep-farming evictions that played an important part in the village's demise.

establishing new peasant houses (tofts and crofts) that allowed the village to reach its peak population of roughly 200 residents. They actively managed the manorial focus of the village. demolishing the South Manor and shifting the community's administrative centre to the newly constructed North

🧵 For years the prominent Percy family were the primary medieval landlords of Wharram Percy, and their influence shaped its development, expansion, and subsequent division. Under their control in the 12th and 13th centuries, the village expanded and the layout was changed. They

1958. Today, the old trackbed forms part of the Yorkshire Wolds Way, where traces of the railway still survive. See Alts for for more details of images.

they served. Wharram station, a simple single-platform halt, stood beside the village chalk quarry. South of the village, engineers built the 1,767-yard Burdale Tunnel, completed after years of flooding and rockfalls. Passenger services ended in 1950, freight in

🧵Wharram Percy Part 2. The railway at Wharram Percy was part of the former Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, a Victorian branch line known locally as the “Malton Dodger.” Opened in 1853, it linked Malton and Driffield but struggled commercially, as many stations stood far from the villages

This must be the most portally portal that ever there was.