I'm at that point in my life in which the plant mister serves not only the plants, but also myself because I'll use it too and then I'll plant myself in front of the fan. It's either this and nightly cold showers before bed or not sleeping at all and getting headaches...

Lindisfarne Castle, painting by Kate Lycett.

Jeremy Miranda (American,b. 1980): Tide Pool, Acrylic on panel

Choir screen, Ely Cathedral, 19th century. #ScreenSaturday

Evening Light, Isle of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, painting by John Lowrie Morrison, Scottish artist.

"oh Portugal, such a lovely country!!" You should really try it when it's 33C indoors at night and you have no AC. Then we'd see if it is as lovely as marketing people say. 😞

At this point in the heatwave, half of my diet is water and the other half is somewhat made of other kinds of liquids (incl. soup) and the odd burger (when I'm in a cold environment). 🙃

#Poetry #Painting #Morality The good and the evil are happening concurrently. The choice to focus on the good is itself a way to defy the evil. -Jared K Anderson 🎨 Claude Monet

"Le Bocage Normand" (Normandy Landscape) 1987 André Brasilier (b. 1929) French Artist Oil on Canvas 116 x 89 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Morning… Take A Breath, photo by Sean O’Riordan, Irish photographer.

Today, Lloyds Banking Group officially announced that the historic 173-year-old Halifax brand will be retired. marking the end of an era that began in 1853 when the Halifax Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society was founded at the Old Cock Inn in Halifax (below)

#PalacesAndGardens #CoolRefuge #HumansOfBlueSky The interior nave of Iona Abbey, Isle of Iona, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (September 2025) A 13th century Benedictine abbey. And a place of pilgrimage. #iona #hebrides #scotland #heritage #churches #classicmono #photography #eastcoastkin

The worst part of heatwaves here, aside from not being able to cool off properly, is knowing that I'm absolutely delicious and don't want to become a feast for mosquitoes. (All I'm saying is: this repellent thingy better work! 😬)

Told myself it was "just a little stroll" today and ended up walking over 13k steps and about 8km in total, one of which was up a steep hill from Santa Apolónia to the Graça church. This is considered a "slow day" for me when I'm in Yorkshire. 😅

Hadn't taken my Panasonic tz-90 out for a proper photo walk in ages and it felt really good to do it today. Obviously not as good in image quality as the Fujifilm but that sweet sweet 30x zoom was amazing for plane spotting. Gotta try planes spotting at Gulbenkian when it's not scorching hot!

Gothic splendour - looking east down the nave of Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LichfieldCathedral #Staffordshire

Midsummer, east Yorkshire, 2004, painting by David Hockney.

Bonnie Balmoral, Edinburgh, painting by Karen Cairns, Scottish artist.

For #CameraDay, Dead Man Standing. An inquiry into the fantasy of Victorian standing post-mortems: dead people, supported by headrests. thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/d... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#StatueSunday Detail of one of the turn of the century marble nymphs in the secret garden of York House, Twickenham. It's hard to define why they are eerie; life sized they glow like moon-flowers trapped in an Italianate reverie, created by a forgotten sculptor. Out of place, out of time.

The Dark Hedges, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, photo by Belinda Shi, travel photographer. Location for 'Game of Thrones'.

Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, c.1765, painting by Richard Wilson, 1713/14-82, Welsh artist and leading landscape painter of his generation (Nottingham Castle).

The thing about watching Portugal play nowadays is that, unless Homelander is out, every game against a decent team feels like a struggle. This last game left me feeling like we all lost, despite the draw. Smh...

Looking up in the quire of Worcester Cathedral at the 13th Century vaulting, restored by George Gilbert Scott and repainted by Hardman in the 1860s. A central boss of Christ in Majesty surrounded by two ranks of angels, the inner ones with thuribles.

The Five Sisters windows in the north transept of York Minster. Transept begun 1230s completed by 1250. Windows restored & dedicated as a memorial to women that died in service in the First World War on 24th June 1925. More restoration work done before a re-dedication on 24th June 2025. #ArtShare

Needed a suitable tool to tighten the bolt of my (still unused longboard) and, about halfway through looking for that at the hardware store (and horrifying a man who was in that aisle), I realised that I'm much more comfortable there than I am at a clothes shop. 😅

The horror when Instagram suddenly suggests your mother's newly created account, which she got because my nieces don't understand yet why privacy matters. 😞 (Bless the restrict function. That's all I'm saying. 🙃)

Rainbow near Bassenthwaite, Lake District, photo by Carmen Norman.

Ted Dyer (British, born 1940)

Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860–1939) "Cat in the Summer Meadow", 1920. Oil on Canvas, 75.5 × 91 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday

Are those #hedgehogs ?!? Also please enjoy some cooling pictures of #glaciers from Davy's translation of Bourrit's A Journey to the glaciers, 1776

Dang van Can (Vietnamese, b. 1957) (Landscape/Figurative Painter) "In the Spring". Oil on Canvas, 60 × 80 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

When I started holidaying in the UK, people would ask me why I, a Portuguese person, would go up there for a holiday in such a wet and cold place (West Yorkshire). I told them it was for the cold and they were all confused. Now they get it. Cherish your cold. You can't shed your skin to cool off! 😞

Sergiu Ciochină (Moldova b. 2001, living Paris) Sunlit Passage oil on board

John Speed’s 1610 map of The West Ridinge of Yorkeshyre is a true masterpiece of early British mapmaking. Originally created for his famous atlas, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, this particular version was published in London in 1676 by Thomas Bassett and

72 Goodramgate, York was built in 1317, part of a row of tenements to provide rent for Holy Trinity church. The gateway dates from the 18th century, another tenement from the row being demolished to make room for it. #WindowsOnWednesday #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Derby Arms pub, Ordsall, Salford, 1976, photo by John Bulmer.

Abide With Me, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan.

As with many things, the temperature in my home office gets much worse before it gets better... It's something like 30C there now and it's dark. 🙃

Claude Monet (1840–1926) "The Undergrowth in the Forest of Saint Germain" (1882) Oil on canvas.

Dewsbury, Yorkshire, painting by Noël Spencer, 1900-86 (Kirklees Museums and Galleries).

Finally a reason to go to Harrogate that isn't to pull an Agatha Christie! 😆

© Andrew Grant Kurtis. 'Moonlight Serenade.' Oil on board, 2021. 51.5 × 41.5 cm.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Lavish die-cut and embossed pattern of angels, weeping trees, and urns, to frame a mourning card printed with "In Loving Memory of Ann Borringham, Who died at Baumber, on November 26th, 1894, Aged 66 Years." Personal collection.

It has definitely seen better days but Bramham Biggin is a Grade II* listed Tudor-period mansion located on the Bramham Park Estate in West Yorkshire. Originally built on the site of a medieval remote monastic cell for Nostell Priory, the house was expanded and remodelled by

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#StoneworkSunday Bishop Audley's Chantry Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral with it's glorious fan vaulted #SundayCeiling was built in 1524. Sadly the original brightly coloured decorations and small statues didn't survive the 1540s Reformation, but it's pretty brilliant as it is.

Woman With White Bonnet, 1920, painting by Mary Swanzy, Irish artist.

Renato Muccillo (Italian/Canadian, born 1965) "August Skies", 2015. Oil on Canvas, 24" × 36". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) Houses in the Greenery 1881