The pale veil of daybreak

Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth again, it's just that the weird treatment-resistant gastroparesis I have fought for the last twelve years of my life has almost definitely been IBD all along and nothing feels real anymore.

Radiolaria are microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree. blog post: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9861

Just your normal classic bumblebee with the normal number of wings and totally a vegetarian, don't worry about it (bumblebee mimic robberfly, of course 🖤)

Reflections ...

Found an old photo of one of my favourite mushroom sightings - a magpie inkcap :) Haven’t seen any this year (or since); this was taken in a nearby woodland on this day in 2017. #mushrooms

Finished painting of Thuidium cymbifolium (Hawaiian name: mākole mākō pi`i) #sciart #botanicalart #watercolor

These are my not-classic monarch butterfly photographs from past years ... plus a photo from late September 2025 #Inverts

Self-portraits by American artist Lauren E Peters, 2020s, whose paintings explore costume and performance.

They should invent a food that doesn't make my stomach hurt

Tiny aster happenstance rock garden ...

I was sure this gravel stuck in scrambled egg thing was Rhizocarpon geographica, but the lichenologist instructor said you’d never be sure about Rhizocarpons unless you do DNA test. Fascinating, anyway. Ikenotaira, Tomi, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends チズゴケの仲間。同定はとても難しいそうだ。長野県東御市池の平 #地衣類

Merlin, Arthur Ross Pinetum, Central Park. My first time seeing one stationary and up close. #birds

Today's conundrum. Yes, that is where I've wiped my brush on the wall instead of bending down and picking up the cloth.

Looking like a ghostly alien, a moon jellyfish floats in blue lighting at the Oregon Coast aquarium. #BlueSkyMonday #photography

The Wren is a tiny bird, almost round in shape with very short wings and a tail which is often stuck up vertically. folksy.com/items/8570478 #Wren #Birds #BirdArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #PenAndInk #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

Today work in progress.

Glasgow café, Amulet

Trialed another apparatus tonight. This one may be my new favorite.

I am delighted to share that my botanical artwork “Heirloom Hibiscus” has been selected for the Association of Botanical Artists’ Autumn Online Exhibition 'Inspiration'. See my piece here hgpenningtonart.com/... Explore the full exhibition www.assocbotanicalar...

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

For almost 10 years, artist Klari Reis created a petri dish painting every day #sciart www.adailydish.com?m=1

The final piece for cline house gallery. Pitcher plant from my trip to newfoundland this summer. #botanicalart #bloomsky

Deep Lake, East End oil on canvas 22” x 28” 2025

This Swallow is swooping in looking for some motivation.....have you seen it?! #BirdArt #MondayMotivation #WildlifeArt #embroidery #BlueskyMonday

Just outside the New Mexico Museum of Art today. Coffee and Baumann today! #newmexico #santafe #art #artmuseum

Kit Paulson, Lungs, glass, 2020. The alveoli are shaped like flowers

Some pics from a wilderness hike on Friday. #Newfoundland Canada. #lichens #hiking #trail

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Paintings by American artist Meghann Stephenson, 2020s.

I’m off to Nepal - hiking & reconnecting with nature.
 Leaving you with a few of my favorite mountains! (Minus Mt. Fuji) 🫣 Catch you all again in Nov. 
✌🏽❤️ #photography #scape #eastcoastkin #nature #coloraday #BWFri #art #stunday #landscape #mountains #classicmono #blackandwhite #b&w #monochrome

The beauty of twilight, night touched by day, light fading into dark, a world barely visible, glowing, a world we never imagined..... #photography #landscapephotography #landscape #travel #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #outdoors #sunset #sunrise #adventure

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Bringing back the Brown Pelicans, seen earlier this year on the Washington coast for #BirdOfTheDay #SeaBirds The second photo shows an adult with the white head and a juvenile with the darker head. 📷🪶🌊

Wind, rain, blowing a gale, at the seaside.

Mexico City-based artist Omar Mendoza taps into the persistence of ancestral knowledge for his newest series of paintings in 'Serpiente Solar 〰 Noche Obsidiana,' on view now in Chicago. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/omar...

Giant Funnels, Aspropaxillus giganteus, in Earlham Cemetery, Norwich today. Best left in situ: "Not a highly regarded mushroom", "can cause gastric upsets in some people" and have flesh that is "fairly tough and usually full of maggots." www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-gui... #Fungi #FungiFriends

Had an amazing day at #Fungitown in #HayonWye today, sat upstairs painting this gorgeous pink-flushed Rosy bonnet #mushroom, Mycena rosea. So many fascinating people to talk to , and so much sharing of #fungal inspiration and ideas. A privilege to be there Come and say hi ,from 10 - 4pm tomorrow.

October can be a glorious time to visit #Iceland, as I think this photo from 2023 demonstrates :)

Check out the third of my Horses of Apocalypse pin designs: FAMINE! ✨⚖️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a... #ArtShop #Pintober #spookyMonth

The Hippocampus is a mythical creature with the front of a horse and the back half of a fish. They've been portrayed by cultures from the Ancient Greeks to the Picts and beyond My take here is partly based on a black-figure amphora from the 6th century BCE that currently is displayed in the Louvre

Time for an oldie - a photo taken the 1st time I ever visited the south-east of #Iceland (4th visit to the country). It was a very miserable day, & I barely saw any of the wonders due to low cloud, but occasionally it lifted & was very atmospheric. Had better views on the return journey! March 2012.

California sister butterfly. Wings open & wings closed. 🌿 #invertebrates

In moments like these, we are asked to treat others as expendable, ready sacrifices that will supposedly protect against additional harm. That has never, historically, been the case—they will continue to devour, over and over, until there is either no one left or they are stopped. 1/

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

Never gets old - Pin #lichen Chaenotheca trichialis with some pruina on the stalk and around the base of the head. Rectangular green algae (Stichococcus) and globose pigmented spores. Collected today on oak bark on a playground near Hannover.

Finished this one today. It will go to Cline House gallery after it dries and is varnished. #botanicalart #bloomsky #invertibrate #painting #watersolubleencaustic

We're nearing the end of my year behind the lens (one more big trip), which means I'll soon start narrowing down my favorite shots of 2025. This was one of my '24 faves (taken in BC), in part because I was dealing with failing gear at the time. It felt like a miracle even getting this to turn out.