Anders Andersen-Lundby, Danish painter, 1841-1923. Winter Evening, 1886. Oil on canvas. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Painting and Fine Arts

Spring is coming - the crocuses (croci) are out in the prairie behind my home 😀

I was listening to music by John Dowland while in the company of someone knitting, unknotting and cursing the loss of needles. It struck me that the dour ideas of Dowland would go well with the stresses of knitting angst, so I wrote this galliard! #Dowland #Knitting @knittingcultlady.bsky.social

And perhaps my first proper poem of 2026. I wanted to explore the idea of the grass is greener and dissatisfaction with life - an idea put in my mind by one of my students. The full poem at larger font size in in the alt text. #grassisgreener

Two important things: 1) after tomorrow the sun will not set before 5pm again in the UK…until October 2) if you’re struggling just now *please* be kind to yourself

I wrote this poem this morning as a sudden inspiration. It came in a matter of 90 seconds of writing, or should I say tapping, as it was written on a mobile ‘phone. Full poem also provided as alt text. @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Here is a more serious poem – a metaphor for Life. Gosh, that sounds too heavy do you think? Nevertheless, I hope you like it. The full poem is also in the alt text. @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social

I have not posted a new poem for well over a month, and there is a backlog. So here is the first of clutch of poems, a confection of poems or perhaps a murmur of poems. Most can be found at paulglover.uk #womensfootball #football @womensfootball.bsky.social @womensfootiemag.bsky.social

Lionel Walden, American painter, 1861-1933. Les Docks de Cardiff, 1894. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ 📷 Musée d’Orsay, Paris | Painting and Fine Arts

...and after the arraying. My daughter is home and all is at peace, almost.

Family tradition is that the tree gets decorated late. Here are some before the arraying - each woth a memory.

Hilda Rix Nicholas pursued a successful & varied art career in London, France & Morocco before returning to paint in Australia. She lost her husband, mother & sister during WW1. Here, the intriguing Les Fleurs Dédaignées ■ The Summer House

Thanks to iunify on Instagram @physics.bsky.social @physicsmagazine.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @physicsleedsuni.bsky.social

Well, Rebecca, Wow!! Sometimes the muse trumps time. @drrjwarren.bsky.social

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

Chriatmas is coming. Even the windows of York's best ballet dance shop, Fancy Dance, are joining the spirit. @northernballet.bsky.social @nycballet.bsky.social #fancydance

Someone just asked me to tepost the original 'In the beginning' poem from 2 years ago...so here it is. @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social

And continuing the theme, here is another poem on beginnings an this time, MS Word! @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social

Here is a new twist on the "In the beginning" theme. Pls see paulglover.uk for details. @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social

Just a reminder for those who like poetry and art and some music to visit my sites at paulglover.uk and soundcloud.com/p-w-j-glover for recent updates and an archive of poems, paintings and songs. @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @number10cat.bsky.social

I painted a Red Kite, and felt the breeze in my feathers, and imagined myself as a Kite conversing with the breeze in pirouettes and playful dances. A poem was bound to come, and did. It came in the form of a Sonnet. @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdpainter67.bsky.social @birdpainter.bsky.social

I think Red Kites are wonderful things, and we have lots of them here in North Yorkshire. Bored of cats (if ever), I decided to paint one. I wrote a poem too and will post that soon. #redkites www.paulglover.uk @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @birdpainter67.bsky.social @birdpainter.bsky.social

And the last of the three cats, is Panda, short for Pandaemonium. She is the cat who got the cream, & the fish supper & her paws in the jam. Panda is the born climber who cannot climb and certainly cannot land. Panda is the one whose mews all mean “Was that really me?” @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

It has been a week of cat drawings. This one js called Sputnik. He is an imperious cat. @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

Watercolour painting of a cat called Peanut, along with the photo I did it from. #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolour #painting

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.