Norfolk, 2016 #otd

Norfolk, 2016 #otd

A snifter is a type of stemware, a short-stemmed glass whose vessel has a wide bottom and a relatively narrow top. It is mostly used to serve aged brown liquors such as bourbon, brandy and whisky.

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South Uist, 2020 #otd

1777: Wheat finely blown. Hay in large cock. Hay is made most delicately.

South Uist, 2020 #otd

Four moorland studies in the Outer Hebrides. Mist, sunlight, heather and peat. Watercolour on Two Rivers paper 290x190mm

Vallay Strand, 2020 #otd

1777: Rye, which blows early, in a bad state; no promise of a crop.

#OtD 14 Jul 1912 influential populist US folk musician Woody Guthrie was born. Guthrie chronicled the difficult conditions faced by working class Oklahomans during the Dust Bowl and spoke out against class inequality and fascism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8576...

Vallay Strand, 2020 #otd

South Uist, 2019 #otd

1777: The bloom of the vines now smells delicately. Continue to cut my meadow. White cucumbers grow. Hops begin to be infested with honey-dew. Hay makes well.

South Uist, 2019 #otd

Coisir | Choir South Uist, 2021 #otd

1777: The backward wheat is in beautiful bloom: the fields look quite white with blossoms. The forward wheat is out of bloom, & therefore from the late weather not likely to be so good.

Coisir | Choir South Uist, 2021 #otd

South Uist, 2019 #otd

1777: White throats sing. Ricked the St foin; it lay 12 days washed with continual showers, & yet is not quite spoiled. Began to cut my meadow-hay; a large crop.

This political cartoon by American artist Ron Cobb in 1975 is still relevant today 51 years later.

South Uist, 2019 #otd

Norfolk, 2018 #otd

1777: Wheat much in bloom. Young swifts not out yet. Field-crickets crie: Bees swarm by heaps. 31 swifts appear: so that if near half of them are not strangers, the young broods are out.

From 2019, when the news was telling us that staring seagulls out had been proven to stop them eating your chips

Benbecula, 2023 #otd

1777: A swarm of bees has hung-out in a torpid state for many days. Cuckow cries: white throat whistles. The rainy fit lasted just a month.

Benbecula, 2023 #otd

Finally it feels very apt the work has come to settle into its permanent home opposite the Ardnamurchan Distillery, where the title of the work ‘Spiorad aird nam Murchan’ or Ardnamurchan Spirit was born. @ardnamurchanwhisky.bsky.social Sláinte 🥃

A police investigation has been launched after the satellite tag from a missing Hen Harrier was found to have been deliberately cut from its harness on Ruabon Moor, one of the UK's most infamous bird of prey persecution hot-spots:

Morning on the Seine near Giverny, the Fog - 1897 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10525

Swift nest reportedly thrown in skip during house renovations in South Tyneside

South Uist, 2020 #otd

1777: The young swallows that come out are shivering, & ready to starve.

South Uist, 2020 #otd

over the walls across the water beyond high rocks through the lost town to the cliff top .. the sky .. .. the sea ..

South Uist, 2019 #otd

South Uist, 2019 #otd

1777: Dark & cold, rain, rain, rain, gleams of sun, vast clouds. Stopped down the vines. Bees cluster round the mouth of one hive, but cannot swarm. Bees must be starved soon, having no weather fit for gathering honey no sun, or dry days. A swarm of bees, which had waited many days for an...

Some wet cyanotypes made during the summer months

South Uist, 2023 #otd

South Uist, 2023 #otd

A 36-year-old Avocet has hit the BBC headlines by breaking the UK's longevity record for the species. The only wader that has been shown to live longer is the Oystercatcher at 40+. Curlew and Bar-tailed Godwit also 30+ More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w...

South Uist, 2019 #otd

Dartmoor #dartmoor #landscapephotography #photography #monochromemonday #art #naturephotography #blueskymonday #thephotohour #sharemondays2026 #eastcoastkin #classicmono

1777: My St. foin lies in a rotting state.

Victor Pasmore, The Gardens of Hammersmith No. 2, 1949 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1128862

South Uist, 2019 #otd

Machair South Uist, 2021 #otd