How wonderful does this sound! @newislandbooks.bsky.social is launching The Hare's Corner by @janeclarke.bsky.social and Catherine Cleary, illustrated by Jane Carkill. Books Upstairs, Friday 26 September at 6.30pm www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

What a gorgeous message to receive! Thank-you Sharon 💫💛🐝 #bees #nature #outdoors #goodness #booksky

Simply beautiful 🌿💚 #macromonday 📷taken last week in Tavira, Portugal #photography #nature #beauty #flowers #plants

There she is. Dressed in green. In all her glory. The Queen 👑 #InsectThursday 🐝 📍Tim Regan's bees in Killarney #Kerry 📸me #nature #photography #bees #honey #apiary #Ireland #autumn

Looking forward to this 🌿✨ #nature #booksky #writers #biodiversity #dublin #speirgorm #wildlife #citylife #hiddengems

There's no better place for #storytelling than JohnB's hometown✨ #Listowel International Storytelling Festival: 18-21 Sept💫 Delighted to be part of it🐝 🎟️https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/book-now/ #Folklore #Speirgorm #Festivals #Kerry #Art #Ireland @theobrienpress.bsky.social @kerrycoco.ie

#Shiny Blackberries 😋 #Blueskyartshow 📍Killarney, Co Kerry #Ireland 🌿🌱🌿 #Autumn #photography #nature #Eastcoastkin #foraging #wildfruits

The girl can dance! 💃 The worker bees' waggle dance, telling the others where pollen & nectar can be found Can you spot her? #InsectThursday #joy 💫 📽 #Killarney #Kerry #bees #nature #communication #hive #dancing

How had I never seen crimson clover before? Just beautiful 🤎 #wildflowers #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #killarney #thekingdom #speirgorm #simplicity #beauty

This is Tim Regan. He runs Killarney Bee Walks & Honey Tastings A lovely way to spend the day 🐝🐝🐝 #Kerry #tours #tasting #honey #nature #wildflowers #beekeeping #spéirghorm #ireland #thekingdom

A bumble with a gorgeous yellow rump, carrying yellow pollen baskets on a yellow Bird's-foot trefoil #sundayyellow #stunday ✨️💛💫 📍Kilarney, Co. Kerry #nature #photography #beauty #Ireland #macro

The bees reaction to a smoker has ancient evolutionary origins #Bees associate smoke with their forest being on fire It prompts them to huddle up & eat honey in preparation for a potential flight & so they are less likely to sting 🐝 #forestfriday #scape #nature #photography 🌳Co. Wicklow

#bees #pollinators #ukwildlife #photography A few August 20th bees of previous years.

A bee working the heather in the Wicklow mountains last w/e 💜 In folklore it was said that bees sought out heather-laden areas, knowing that it made especially flavoursome honey ✨️🐝💫 #insectthursday #folklorethursday #nature #photography #hiking #spéirghorm #wildflowers #pollination #ireland

Nature taking its course... #InsectThursday 🕷🐝 #nature #photography #spider #bee #beedown #gardening #insects #spéirghorm

Cohost Yodit Kifle Smith and I are so grateful to the inspiring women who shared their stories in The Power of Stories💜podcast! We send many thanks to all listeners, too. You can find all episodes and 1500 other stories at SayItForward.org Listen to a story, read a story, or share YOUR story!

Lovely to be part of such a fab, folklore-filled window display @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social 📚💕 #dublin #mythologymonday #booksky #nature #IrishFolklore #customs #beliefs #myths #legends #gardening #spéirghorm #buylocal #bookchatweekly

Gorgeous gorse surrounded by purple heather 💛💜 #SundayYellow #Stunday 📸me 📍Seefin, Co. Wicklow #hiking #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #wicklowmountains #naturesky #heatherhoney #bees

'...there suck we, alchemical, nectar-slurred, pollen-furred, the world's mantra us, our blurry sound along the thousand scented miles to the hive...' ✍️Carol Ann Duffy's 'Hive' Happy #Worldhoneybeeday 💜🐝 📸me #nature #photography #blueskyartshow #bees #biodiversity #poetry #bookchatweekly

Her little sanctuary #caturday 💚

Bees & butterflies were believed to be intermediaries between this world and the otherworld They embodied the souls of the dead - becoming the celestial messengers of the gods #Folkyfriday 💫 📸me #nature #insects #photography #folklore #legend #celestial #lore

Bees-in-a-bag was a prosperity #charm used in Devon 🐝 It involved capturing bees in a bag & hanging it in the best room in the house (In #Ireland this would be the front room!) This was said to bring health, happiness and sweet good fortune 🪄 #BookologyThursday #Folklore #Magic #Speirghorm

Pretty in pink 🌸 For #InsectThursday The last of my gladiolus to bloom 📸me #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinators #gardening #bumblebees 🐝

I'm loving this In it, #MartinHayes shares that his Dad (also a fiddle-player) said that if a tune had tradition, it meant it had soul... That a tune is like a musically encoded feeling ✨💫✨ #TraditionalMusic #Ireland #Speirghorm #Trad #Booksky #Bookchatweekly #Writing #Memoir #Reading #Music

If I could order this as wallpaper, I would #SundayYellow 💫✨️ 📸North Dublin #flowersonsunday #nature #ireland #augustblooms #bloomscrolling #hiking #stunday #photography

Bumble in camouflage in sea of yellow #SundayYellow #Stunday 💛 📸North Dublin #photography #nature #bloomscrolling #speirghorm

The #jagged leaf edge 💚 #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #shadows #photography #nature #speirghorm #mygarden

Ancient customs to prevent bees from swarming! Ringing the bees in #Ireland, brushing a cow's afterbirth on a hive 3 times in #Germany, spraying a hive with warm water/wine in #UK & in #Palestine rotating a loaf of bread on a table 3 times ensured the bees stayed put #FolkyFriday #Folklore #Food

Lavender - catnip for bees #InsectThursday 💜 📸my garden, earlier this summer #nature #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #macro #pollinators

For one of the delicious things about folklore is the promise that it makes to us that just beyond the gate to the meadow, just beyond the first trees of the wood, lives wonder. For folklore is never less than an enrichment of inner lives. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore

I find that the Irish language often describes a word's meaning more accurately, for me personally "Folklore" in Irish is "Béaloideas" "Béal" is mouth & "oideas" is teaching or education = teaching via the oral tradition💫💛 #storytelling #language #Irish #spéirghorm #culture #folklore #gaeilge

Bluey purple & bumbles #Gardenshour 💜

This is Anthony Freeman, a beekeeper in Dublin 8 Single handedly, he has created this beautiful, serene urban sanctuary in what was a derelict sight Pure joy chatting with him at #TheLibertiesFestival #Speirghorm #Community #Environment #Bee8 #Folklore #GreenSpaces @thelibertiescp.bsky.social

Cosy 💙 A bumble working a Delphinium for #InsectThursday Folklore says the colour blue makes bees more industrious! #nature #photography #gardening #flowers #julyblooms #bloomscrolling #spéirghorm #bees #pollinators #folklore

In ancient times #honey was daubed on the bride's lips & placed on the door of newly-weds' home for good luck #Honeymoon comes from the ancient ritual of drinking mead for a moon cycle after marriage And honey has literally become a synonym for a beloved 💕🍯 #LegendaryWednesday #Folklore #Weddings

Eimear Chaomhánach, a beekeeper’s daughter and a student of folklore, will be in conversation with Anthony Freeman this Saturday, 26th July at The Liberties Festival, discussing her book ‘The Keeper of the Bees - Bees and Beekeeping in Irish Folklore.’ Tickets are now available!

On her way in... The yellow petal of the Gladiolus 🏵🐝🏵 #SundayYellow #Stunday 📸me #photography #nature #gardenblooms #july #bloomscrolling #gardening #bees #pollinators

Lady Augusta Gregory was a keen #folklorist She collected an anecdote saying "Aristotle of the books was very wise, but the bees got the best of him in the end!"🐝 She later wrote a play 'Aristotle's Bellows' based on Irish folklore & mythology #FolkyFriday #Writers #Spéirghorm #Art #JBYeats

A sky to get lost in #Scape Friday ☁️Dollymount Strand, #Dublin 📷me #photography #nature #skyscape #clouds #spéirghorm

With a little rain, fuchsia serves up shelter, water & nectar ✨️ #InsectThursday 🐝🐝🐝 #nature #photography #gardening #pollinators #bees #bloomscrolling

Ireland's Brehon Laws were an ancient code of lawful behaviour & crops, land & animals featured Bees had a subset: Bechbretha (Bee Laws) One such law said that if bees fed from flowers on neighbours land, this neighbour was due a share of the honey yield🍯🌿 #LegendaryWednesday #agriculture #law

Happy to be part of The Liberties Festival in the 💙 of #DublinCity Speaking with #Bee8's Anthony Freeman amongst his bees, gorgeous garden & sculptures: 26Jul, 6:30, FreeBEE 🐝 thelibertiesfestival.com @libertiesdublin.bsky.social @theobrienpress.bsky.social #Speirgorm #Festivals #Booksky #Nature

I haven’t shared Doucet’e early #1900s bee dress in a while and it is perfect bee weather so here it is. The white background highlights the unusual embroidery darting about the surface of the gown, each striped insect alighting on different parts of the dress #madparis #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

🌼 ✨️🔆✨️ 🌼 #SundayYellow #Stunday #nature #photography #bloomscrolling #flowerpower #pollinators #gardening 🌱 📸me

Virgil's Fourth Georgic was devoted to beekeeping In #verse he describes roles in the hive: 'others pack the honeyed excellence Close, with pure nectar plumping every cell; And some by lot are warders of the gate, And scan the clouds in turn...' 🐝 #BookwormSat #Bookchatweekly #AncientRome #bees

Sand sandwich #summerdaze #blueskyartshow #summervibes #italy #photography #seascape 📸me

A popular Irish custom, carried out to this day, is leaving a Child of Prague statue outdoors under a bush the night before a wedding to ensure good weather If the statue's head breaks off it heightens the odds of sunny weather! 💫🔆 #FolkyFriday #weatherlore #folklore #speirgorm #tradition #Ireland

Bee related weather-lore for #FolkyFriday 🔆🐝 "When bees to distance wing their flight Days are warm and skies are bright But when their flight ends near their home Stormy weather is sure to come" ✍️Richard Inwards, 1893 #proverbs #folklore #nature #bees #photography #bloomscrolling #gardening 📷me

Picnic crash 💥 #insectthursday #pollinators #nature #flowers #clover #photography #bloomscrolling 📸me

Folklore offers wonderful narratives as to the origin of bees on earth 💫 Egyptian mythology describes bees being created from the tears of Sun God Ra Ra's right eye signified the #sun, his left the #moon & when he wept, his tears transformed into bees 🌔🌓🌖 #LegendaryWednesday #astrology #folklore