Mood

Tree of the day is this Japanese maple tree (April and October)

An excuse to post the Shakespeare joke I found actually funny... GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? #shakespearesunday

This is such a nice song: a favourite from this year

Prague night tour

I had this little poem in my head all day By Kobayashi Issa (HT @bashosociety.bsky.social for sharing)

Mournes today

I love that this plant is someone's favorite. Native over there. Of course it's invasive over here. And personally it's way too "spikey" for my liking. 😂

This teasel plant self-seeded in my garden and is now my favouite. Its about 6ft, with lots of little pools of water where the leaves meet up the stems, making it v popular with insects too

Tree of the day

My tree of the day - yew

Mr Wisteria is, understandably, tree of the day

Wild garlic update

Great article on the gap between how we value human and natural heritage. Interesting that in Portugal and Italy, anyone is able to recommend a tree for protection www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I really enjoyed Mikey 17. Hope it does well as it was such an original and fun sci fi & political satire, with great cast and performances. My one issue is how very naïve folks in sci fi stories are about the fact that death-followed-by-cloning still equals death. See also: teleporters in Star Trek

My #thicktrunktuesday nomination — yew tree at St. Andrew's Church, Totteridge. Perhaps the oldest living thing in London.

My tree of the day is this holm oak in Armagh

My #thicktrunktuesday nomination: The Ankerwycke Yew. At least 1400 years old, but very possibly more than 2000.

I’ve never wanted to recommend a place to stay so much as the Manor House on Rathlin. Just the friendliest, cosiest place, with lovely staff and great food too. Really enjoyed walking the length of the island over the weekend

Sunrise this morning, between Rathlin island (left) and Ballycastle

View from Rathlin Island just a moment ago. You can see across to Scotland at the end

Just passing by and thought I’d take a little video. This is a 4000 year old tomb in the Sperrins, with a fairy thorn tree growing from it.

Really happy to see @irishrainforest.bsky.social, all the way up from Beara Peninsula to talk about the value of restoring and expanding Ireland’s temperate rainforests 🌳

My tree of the day. Scots Pine

My #thicktrunktuesday nomination is this extraordinary 400 year old oak tree I saw outside Warsaw in summer. I’ll post a video below too.

Tree of the day (Ash)

This was a really interesting episode of Countryfile about the Mourne Mountains. I especially liked the interview with @davidscottni.bsky.social who highlights that native ancient forest—as found at Mourne Park—accounts for just 0.04% land cover in NI. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Tree of the day. Summer and winter

I am deeply concerned to learn about this goblin-chatbot alliance.

I quite like the fact that talking about different trees is, according to the Bible, indicative of great wisdom.

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools” - King Lear #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Cats & Dogs

Six leaves of different spinescence from the same old holly tree. (Yes, I just wanted to use that word.)

My tree of the day is this oak tree, which long ago would have been pollarded and harvested for timber. Now enjoying a long retirement

At a favourite tree this morning 🌳

I like this one very much. Journeys are most of life; so we should enjoy the time spent on them

Taken in June. An old olive tree near the town of Luras in Italy. If I returned as an old man, it’d be like the blink of an eye in the lifespan of this one

A few more photos of this old beech. I think the summer look is my favourite

My tree of the day - a huge beech in the fog

My tree of the day — a pedunculate oak, still holding on to its leaves.

My tree of the day — a horse chestnut, ready for winter

My tree of the day submission — an old oak in Armagh

The picture in my profile’s banner is of the suitably named ‘King Oak’ in Co Offaly; one of my favourite trees. Beautiful all year round

A big old yew tree in Crom, Co Fermanagh. Apparently over 800 years old

Whilst my initial impression of Bluesky is very positive, I’m reminded of a quote in a Jurassic Park movie -

I’ve said it before, but I can never understand why the prospective murderer invariably proceeds to carry out their plot, even after the World’s Greatest Detective unexpectedly and coincidentally shows up on the scene. I’d 100% call it off, or at least postpone 🤭

I really liked this one. A stone pine 🌲

“Trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert the air into tree. And in the ash is the small remnant of the part which did not come from air, that came from the solid earth”

An impressive holm oak tree— 250 years old—in the town of São Brás de Alportel 🇵🇹

For consideration on #thicktrunktuesday, this impressive ombu (phytolacca dioica) in Lisbon. Ombu are native to South America and characterised by a huge base that stores water & provides resilience to drought.