Today, eh! Got bored. Made rye #bread and spiced apple and parsnip #soup. Swept a chimney and #painted a cat. I cannot share many of these things with you, but I can show you the cat. @awatercolouraday.bsky.social @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

"Having begun to love you, I love you forever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself." ~ Thomas Hardy, 𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw

Peaceful, serene vibes in Lilafüred, in the Bükk Mountains in northern Hungary. This photo is from early November; the breathtaking first days of autumn, as the seasons so strikingly turn in perpetuity. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by Zoltán Bárány©️

I wrote this poem this morning because I felt that many kind circles were being wrongly labelled as vicious circles. 🙃

Now we know the meaning of NATO - "No Americano! That's Outrageous!"

Gustav Klimt, Apple Tree I, c. 1912. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Painting and Fine Arts | Private Collection

So true - some books have had their Appendix removed and their index fingered.

Hawthorn is one of my favorite plants. My painting is from a photo I took earlier in the year (for the flowers) and a branch of berries from a tree on the Nunnington Ridge near where I live. @awatercolouraday.bsky.social @flowerpainting.bsky.social #watercolour #watercolor #flowerpainting

Paul Kauzmann, German (1874-1951), Morgensonne (Morning Sun), 1915, oil on canvas, 97 x 67 cm, private collection

The View From The Window St Margarets: watercolour

Jane Goodall RIP. She has been a Titan that helped teach the World to respect the planet and all of its inhabitants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We must member her by action. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @unileedsglobal.bsky.social

Autumn has come to Ryedale.

Marvelous and elegant, but what does it say? "Khemni 4 Dave."?

And this is the continuing self-interest that means no decent environmentalist should ever vote Conservative.

This avenue of trees on the edge of York leads to one of the very best embroidery and craft shops in the UK. www.vikingloom.co.uk #embroidery

... and ... silver birch woodland near home. #watercolour #watercolor @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

Autumn has come in the garden. Today, it was quick sketches of fruit tree leaves ... and ... #watercolour #watercolor @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

Sara, belle d’indolence - Henry James Holiday

Walkway to golden hour #35mm 🎞️

Today's watercolour, a Redstart, painted (started) in West Bank Park in the outskirts of York and finished at home. Watercolour pencil sketch loosened with water-brush and black fine-liner. #watercolours #watercolors #birdwatching

#watercolor #abstract #art

Been working on some cloud studies in watercolor. #watercolor, #traditionalart

Wonderful walk in the Yorkshire Moors today. Autumn clouds and all the reds and myriad browns of the coming season, but with the warmth of the senescent sun.

...and here are the fruit mixes for the jams/jellies - 100% foraged! The sugar will be from the supermarket, though.

There is nothing like a foraging day in North Yorkshire - Huttons Ambo, with sloes, haws, elderberries, apples and various other berries.

Last night's Comedy About Spies was hilarious, but tonight's Back to the Future: The Musical was mind-blowing. Incredible!

Last night's Comedy About Spies was hilarious, but tonight's Back to the Future: The Musical was mind-blowing. Incredible!

In London with my daughter - just had an out of body experience on The Tube. Now going to the theatre - A Comedy about Spies!

The drinking jug https://www.wikiart.org/en/joaqu-n-sorolla/the-drinking-jug-1904

The last 24 hours painting (and sleeping) have been quite productive :)

There is something special about lying in the long grass with paints in the summer. I now know that van Gogh's most important tool was his hat! #watercolours #flowers @watercoloursociety.bsky.social [St Petersburg watercolours, Oil paints with quick drying linseed oil and fineliners]

While eating tonnes of tomatoes a day (efforts to reduce the glut), I thought I might as well paint them too! (St Petersburg watercolours, sepia and while pencils and clear nail varnish).

Ripe plums, fuchsias dropping red tears on parched earth and too many tomatoes to eat even for a tomato fiend like me! Bank holiday weekend!

The summer is now getting old, the Rosebay Willowherb is shedding its downy beard, and the pears are almost ready for picking. That is what I chose to paint today. The orininal from our garden tree, the painting on buff, and digitally darkening the background @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

Did not realise Tom Gault knew about what Leeds University is like.

#FindsFriday In the #Saxon grave of a wealthy woman in London's Covent Garden were found silver rings, glass beads and this fine brooch, probably in a bag around her neck. The copper brooch is decorated w gold plates + gold wire and set with polished garnets. Mid 7th C. London Museum collections. 🏺

Breakfast and walk to the station to go to work this morning. Nothing like fruit from the garden!

... and despite how nice yesterday was for me - I went to bed having just written this poem, for some of those not as fortunate and against the perpetrators.

...and then home to a strawberry cream tart freshly made by my multitalented daughter. Of 6, I get one to myself! Heaven!!

Up on the Moor this afternoon just south of Castleton. All bees Heather an bilberries - and sheep 😀

Just relaxing on my deckchair in the garden between the Mallow and the Hibiscus #summerflowers

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

This is what happens when a selfie-stick goes wrong!

Here is a parody of Robert Frost, for which I apologise unapologetically, to go with previous parodies (paulglover.uk ). This one is dedicated to physicists in general and quantum physicists in particular @unileedsglobal.bsky.social @newscientist.com @science.org @egu-ere.bsky.social

John Singer Sargent demonstrates his bravura technique in this charcoal sketch of art historian Claire Stuart Wortley, drawn in a single sitting at his studio in Tite Street, Chelsea 1923

Inspired by Hayley, I have decided to post another of my churches. Set so peacefully, this is St Gregory's Minster in Kirkdale (a microminster?) dating from Tostig (1055-1065 AD), it has an Anglo-Saxon sundial. There are nice walks nearby & Ryedale Festival events in summer. @hayleyfern.bsky.social

Lovely church painting Hayley 🥰 I depict the odd church too. Here is one of them - Capel y ffin in the Black Mountains. Others at paulglover.uk Thank you!