M. John Harrison klaxon: new novel, The End of Everything, coming from Serpent’s Tail in June.

Shame if this got shared more widely on social media 😉 www.facebook.com/share/19p6GS... #Trump #epstein #friendshipmonth #Washington #banksy

Equinoctial Activities: 1. Steam ploughing 2. Quince picking (& furry helper) 3. Firewood stacking #equinox #autumn #fruit #steam

Brown hare backlit by early morning sun anxiously watching signatures on the petition heading for 30,000. I'm sure you've signed the petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season, but any more family and friends to sign? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

Wondering whether this portal is in #Hookland and, if so, where? @hookland.bsky.social

😱Suspended from ropes, lowered through the ceiling boss at Beverley Minster – a once-in-a-lifetime perspective. I’ve tried to capture it in words & film. Full story + video here: 🔗 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...

Yesterday I was lowered thro the tower boss at Beverley Minster, I saw the building as few ever will – the vast geometry of unfolding beneath me. Humbled to photograph this view, and grateful to DMPSurveying & Rope Rescue UK for their skill and care.

Cat companions have always been part of my life, but perhaps now is the time for a feathered friend to add another level of unpredictable, hence rewarding, connection with other species.

I am *definitely* not buying one of these (if they are a real thing). What Mrs Binks 🐈‍⬛️ and the Monkey 🐒 might conjure from The Beyond doesn't bear thinking about🫣

"The Reverend Doctor MAURICE VAUGHAN Late Cannon of Winsor Dec= eas'd : Built and Endowed this Alms House in ye Year 1721 : For three Decayed Old Men : and three old Women. DAVID Ellis hoc fecit 1731" Dolhendre Almshouse #meirionydd #cymru #wales

Another portal for you, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social I might have to resist the urge to have a dip in this magical pool, for fear of being drawn through into Annwyn.

Sadly, I had to return home from #Meirionydd after a splendid week immersed in music, mountains, lakes, rivers, woods, the sea and lovely communities with shared interests 🥲 At a break in my journey at the Erwood Station "services", I was consoled by this calm and composed polar bear dog 🐻‍❄🐶

After a rousing, emotional finale to the Machynlleth Festival, a last swim in calm and pearlescent Cardigan Bay, our old salty mother embraced by its long arms. And farewell (for a while) to Cader Idris and Craig Aderyn, resting yet ever watchful above the Dysynni valley. #cymru #wales #meirionydd

My annual pilgrimage to Cwm Ratgoed. Warm, solitary, with swifts. #cymru #wales #meirionydd

Happy cows in Happy Valley / Cwm Maethlon, also huge view over #Dyfi estuary☀️ And a distant, hazy view of Ynys Enlli / Bardsey, with a closer view through the vision of Roger Wagner, currently showing at MoMA, #Machynlleth. #cymru #wales #Meirionydd

Happy cows in Happy Valley / Cwm Maethlon, also huge view over #Dyfi estuary☀️ And a distant, hazy view of Ynys Enlli / Bardsey, with a closer view through the vision of Roger Wagner, currently showing at MoMA, #Machynlleth. #cymru #wales #Meirionydd

Buy lots! Give to your friends. Give to strangers - make new friends! You know it makes sense .. just do it 😄 #author #tomcox #Jimthecat

The real test of AI is surely when, if ever, it will become capable of understanding a joke:

Saturday vibes in the studio

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

Cloudscape in the spirit of Samuel Palmer ☁️🌳☁️ #samuelpalmer #clouds #cloudscape

Thanks so much, Tom @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, for the copies of Ring the Hill! I will distribute them to worthy and appropriate recipients 😁

News from the Floating Rock 🌎

You can only pick one. Which one?

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here's my Gate into the Sky, a poor complement to the thread by Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Eryri (Snowdonia) from Aran Fawddwy tonight

Break! #cymru #machloop #sky #cloud #landscape #lake #photography #photographersofbluesky

"I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil’d or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below—above the vaulted sky." @brianshieldsart.bsky.social #johnclare #poetry #otd

Paul Nash died this day in 1946. The dispassionate moon still rises over the Wittenham Clumps, fat and heavy with light, and the path leads home under the hill. #paulnash #otd

Golden misty sunrise. Photograph taken from Glastonbury Tor this morning.

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-moons-last-phase-1944

Last year, I was lucky to get a shot of Arenig Fawr with very similar lighting to J D Innes' painting. The clouds and shadows almost cooperated, too! Perhaps I will make it to Llyn y Garn during this year's pilgrimage to Meirionydd. #arenig #cymru #eryri #jamesdicksoninnes @quintinlake.bsky.social

The Great Cloud. Cwm Ratgoed, Aug '23.

When you wear a fur coat 24/7, it's best to find some cooling shade in this weather 😎 Mr Monkey has chosen a spot under the cotoneaster. #caturday

Happy Adlestrop Day! 🚂☀️🌳🎶🐦‍⬛🥲 "And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire." #adlestrop #edwardthomas

"The sun is God", said JMW Turner allegedly☀️ An appropriate solstice image, I think, and one I revisited yesterday at the Tate @tate.bsky.social. This unfinished painting gave me goosebumps in my early teens and the memory of that thrill still moistens my eyes 🥲 "What thou lovest well .." #jmwturner

Happy summer solstice to all!🌞 May yours be bright and warm (but not too warm🫠). Here's one from Paul Nash: Landscape of the Sumer Solstice.

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Wow!! 😃 Having my retinas tickled by these beauties each morning would've revved up my imaginative machinery for the day's toil in '90s badvertising! I did, however, have Paolozzi's TCR 🚇 offerings instead. Am not sure which works better .. you decide 😉 #paolozzi #klint #London #transportforlondon

Happy Bloomsday! ☀️💐☀️ "Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past." James Joyce, Ulysses, Ch. 9, Scylla & Charybdis

The wind helps the trees sing

Over the moon to see this is Oxford the other day- Samuel Palmer's The White Cloud (phone pic) "Based on a drawing of c.1831–1832, this landscape was painted a year or two later."

I have found Mr Monkey. He is in a cool bower under the japonica #caturday

Happy birthday, Paul Nash, visionary of landscapes in war and peace.

Bluebellessimi! West Wood, Marlborough. #spring #bluebells #wiltshire

The Baptist chapel, Capel-y-ffin, Black Mountains. Modern day and as painted by Eric Ravilious. #ravilious #blackmountains #cymru #wales

Peak wisteria .. the scent in the newly warm sun is intense ☺️

Beautiful spring day, blackbirds louder than ever, the blossom a-buzz and Mr Monkey relaxing in his shady bower.