Wood Millet, Milium effusum, in the village woods #wildflowerhour

SIGNED BOOK NEWS. Comedy legend Alexei Sayle has a new memoir coming out in September. How I've Tried To Change The World (by walking down the middle of the street shouting). Alexei's signing copies for us, so if you want one, you can order it HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

And more impressionistic #bluebells using the intentional camera movement (ICM) method. #creativephotography #canonr5markii

Hamlet in #Nunavut celebrates being chosen as site of first Inuit-led university in #Canada Inuit Nunangat University is expected to open in small community of Arviat in 2030 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canal-side plants Garlic mustard Straight backed Soldiers on parade The hint of garlic The fire of mustard Marshaling your taste buds And pleasing the eye. Thank you Generous troops Of hedgerow And towpath. #naturepoetry #ukcanals #plants #spring

'Whatever lost ghosts flare, Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor Rave on the leash of the starving mind Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.' 📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard 🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain #BookWormSat #poetry #haunted

Longing lifted its weight from me. • Sara Teasdale •

Woodland floor #Cornwall

#BookWormSat ..... very fitting for today's theme ⚰️

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew on US alcohol ban: "The fact that you have Trump's acolytes throwing their tantrums as they do, it tells you that it's working. So why would we stop something that's clearly working and driving some people that don't share our values a little wild."

Saturday morning views at sunrise.

Bonny beetles for #Invertefest! Woodland dor beetle (Anoplotrupes stercorosus) Rose chafer (Cetonia aurata) Lesser stag beetle (Dorcus parallelipipedus) Seven-spot ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata) #BugSky #beetles #entomology #bugs #Coleoptera

Sophie Durbin, a UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student, has published an article in a special edition of Different Visions, which puts forward a novel approach to Orkney's Norse and Neolithic archaeology through the lens of post-modern performance.

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean. youtu.be/-Bb-VTyXNDQ?...

“Unless you were preternaturally busy and preoccupied, you simply couldn't live on and on in a haunted house without being occasionally reminded of its ghosts.” 👻Walter de la Mare, Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales #BookWormSat

Reform UK promised tax cuts; Worcestershire got a 9% hike. But elsewhere, Reform UK councils kept their increases modest - so that’s alright then. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/SAS64Tqu6ZI

Cogujada montesina Cotovía escura Thekla's lark Thekla's leeuwerik ( Galerida theklae ) Castuera . Badajoz Sierra de la Serena #birds 🪶 #aves #vogels #nature #naturaleza #natuur #birdphotography #BirdOfTheDay #CamoOrContrast #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Extremadura

“For we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are a shadow.” ✍️Walter de la Mare, Out of the Deep: And Other Supernatural Tales #BookWormSat 🎞️Faded Memories by B C Yeats (image from instrumental 2015)

First up from the lunchbox today a gorgeous harissa sweet potato soup with peanut butter. theveganlunchbox.co.uk/vegan-soup-m... I make this one in my soup maker but I have included notes for making it in a pot. It makes 2-3 portions and it's yummy! #plantbased #vegan #vegetarian #dairyfree

King Penguins of South Georgia all start like this. Sailors used to call them “oakum boys”. Brown, fluffy, useless in the water. Then everything changes. Happy Penguin Day!! 🐧 #PenguinDay #Antarctica2030 #southernocean #antarctica #penguins 🎥 The Lewis Pugh Foundation Eaktas06

‘Athens cannot operate as a giant hotel’: mayor vows to rescue capital from overtourism

Shipwrecks, antiques, and Volvo cars are just some of the things at the bottom of the Halifax Harbour. Join researchers as they work to uncover the mysteries and stories that date back centuries. #Halifax #NovaScotia youtu.be/RSTEDzH2tuc?...

“Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it -- ...... miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!” ✍️Edgar Alan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher #BookWormSat

Wishing you a wonderful evening 🫶 Flower #Scape #Alphabetchallenge #WeekPforPurple #ColorADay #BlueTue #Spring #photography #flowers #ArtYear #Art #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #thelittlethings #ECK #EastCoastKin

"Live life and be — to use all the colors in the crayon box." — RuPaul

Die Nachtglöcken läuten 💫

I can't think of a caption. 🤷‍♂️ #forestfriday #forest #nature #photography

My son snapped this pic in SE Michigan. 🦅

A spray of lily-of-the-valley on the woodland floor. Don’t forget to look down! #ForestFriday #ECK #wildflowers

“To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.” ― Roger Deakin, Wildwood: A Journey through Trees #ForestFriday #scape #nature #trees #rocks and #moss #photography #EastCoastKin

#FungiFriday on the rippled, whorled bark of an ancient tree 📸 between Natland Beck and Spindle Woods, Kendal #Cumbria today #ForestFriday #iseemoss #EastCoastKin #nature

I'm judgin', I'm judgin' .... my verdict is ..... I sooooooo want!

The mountains stack themselves like daunting thoughts Their edges soften with distance, their weight is hidden in the hush #Scape #BWFri #ECK #photography #photographersofbluesky #Sedona #Arizona

Red Kite low over Roydon Common in Norfolk today for #BirdsSeenIn2026

Husband's cooking tonight .... might attempt this next week ..... sounds delish!

Portrait of a Woman (Presumed Portrait of the Marquise de Lafayette), c. 1793-94, by #AdelaïdeLabilleGuiard (French, 1749–1803), who died #otd, Apr 24. Held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, nmwa.org/art/collecti... #artherstory #womenartists

Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views CBC/Radio-Canada investigation reveals Netherlands accounts hired voice actors to front 'faceless' channels www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Want to learn about the many Indigenous cultures that make up this land? Jared has a starter pack

Loved this story & the collaboration

The morning starts with frost and sparkles. ✨

Raymond Meeks #photography

‘After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks.’ ~ Walter de la Mare. This #BookWormSat will celebrate the birthdate of Walter de la Mare with the haunted, the uncanny and the hidden worlds of literature. Do join us.

Striated pardalote. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia. #BirdsSeenIn2026

True .. where conservation cattle congregate around the water troughs, even here on the chalk, vegetation becomes rank & of limited species. Thankfully though only in relatively small restricted areas .. in the rest of chalk grassland certain species compete & allow specialist insects to flourish.

Today, Shirasagi-no-Mai 白鷺の舞, White Heron Dance. In thread, pics from today and video from 2023. 1/3 🧵

"In the spring rain The pond and the river Have become one" Buson Yosa (image: arakawa river in rain, Hasui Kawase)

"wisteria plumes sweep the earth, and soon the rains will fall" Shiki Masaoka (images: Yumeji Takehisa / Kiitsu Suzuki)

as above so below

My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...