For the first time ever, thrushes are visiting our garden and feeding on snails and slugs. Lots of shattered snail remnants all over the place. I've only ever seen thrushes in big parks before so this is quite exciting for our scruffy wee backyard #gardening #birds #wildlife

Teasel grows like crazy in our back garden, though it requires a lot of propping up with bamboo canes. I love how little pools of water form among the leaves when it rains. #teasel #plants #gardening

Pigeons outside the attic window, looking lustrous in the sunshine #pigeons #birds #wildlife

Foxglove after the rain #flowers #gardening

Got a baby rowan tree last year, that is producing abundant flowers this year. Bees if multiple species are loving it - saddlebags filled to bursting with pollen! 🐝🐝🐝 #gardening #bees #spring

First peony of 2026 #flowers #gardening

Micro moth on a hart's tongue fern, likely Psychoides filicivora. #moths #bugs #gardening #plants

Magnolia flowers have opened up 🌸 #gardening #plants

Aerial view of the back garden, trying to make it as green and varied as possible, with a good number of native species and scruffy corners where "weeds" are left to do their thing. #gardening #plants

This magnolia never flowered while kept in a pot, but it has started doing so since I put it in the ground in a raised bed. Looks like a bumper crop of blooms this year 🌸🌸🌸🌸 #gardening #plants #flowers

It's dandelion o'clock 🌼 #gardening #plants

First magnolia stellata flower of the year #flowers #gardening #plants

Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻

Baby fatsia japonica leaf looking like a little alien hand 👽🖖🏻 #gardening #plants #aliens

Front garden cherry blossom. #gardening #tree #sakura

Renovation works continuing in Buoy Park. Heavy machinery has excavated around all the trees, leaving them standing on the islands of their own root systems. #tree #Belfast

Tattoo parlour sign on a rainy Belfast night.

The menagerie: Pru and Oonagh...

Cats in advertisements always catch the eye #cats #tattoos #Belfast

Meryl's so sleepy she has lost her legs

Flowering echeveria #flowers #houseplants

Electrical junction box baby #Belfast

City centre green space 🫣

Magnificent Mabel

Strikingly marked, and sized, spider huddled in corner of our front door. Think it's a female missing sector orb weaver? It's mild out atm but due to get cold again so relocated it to our garage to give it a chance of surviving. #spider

Huge flat-topped mushroom growing in a dormant planter at the bottom of the garden, alongside a decaying oak leaf.

Vivid red holly berries on a little tree at the bottom of the garden

Bus shelter art in Belfast city centre

Piggy in a blueberry

Snow tracks ☃️

The robin that rules our garden grabbing a mealworm on a chilly morning.

Mabel snoozing her way into 2026 😴

Vinca aka periwinkle flower, not minding the wintry weather #gardening #GardenSky

logging on

Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’

This painting by William Ratcliffe depicts a quintessential scene of a Swedish cottage in winter. Inspired by his great friend, and Camden Town Group founder, Harold Gilman’s visit to Sweden in 1912, Ratcliffe began his own exploration of Scandinavia the following year.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Did u know? Warm winter weather caused by global warming has resulted in huge amounts of rain in the UK. Small souls like ants, worms & beetles will drown in waterlogged soil. To help excess rain drain away quicker avoid compacting the soil by walking on borders, or even your lawn right now. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🪱

'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd (Manchester Art Gallery)

'Inky drawing of a reindeer' by Scottish artist, Kerry Phippen #WomensArt

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

'Footpath through a park.' (1920) Santiago Rusiñol almost completely concentrated on painting Spain's gardens and landscapes. Wherever he went, he recorded the domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, and arboretums he discovered.

dinosaur golf, jekyll island mini golf, jekyll island, georgia, 1985

Joy of small things. #art #illustration

Autumn shades #leaves #autumn #fall #trees

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

Their hostages. Our detainees.

Nice work Jim Watson, nice work.