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.

Your pets when you fold the laundry.

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds. “The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.” Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

"Trees will only grow in fertile soil, not up in mountains." This self-seeded pine, lodged in a crevice high up in a sheer rock escarpment in the Caha Mountains, begs to differ. It says that trees will grow just about *anywhere* sheep can't get at them.

"Now Comes The Night” (2025) Mark Grantham

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Echoes Of The Path Yeah Wang

Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it

'In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood -' Theodore Roethke Painting: Path through the woods, Maurice Denis

The grotesque inequality of wealth in the United States is at the root of countless problems. If you are an oligarch, you know this. They win the class war by fighting the culture war. Don’t take the bait.

Hello #BlueSkyArtShow 💙 I'll share a few pieces for today's theme #Relax The first is a new seascape painting with a big dreamy sky. Tisha Mark ©2025, Finding a Kindred Spirit, oil on cradled Gessobord, 30"x30" Original is available: tishamark.com/product/find... #art #painting #TraditionalArt