This girl is so fast! #birds #photography #northerncardinals #birdsofbluesky

During the heatwave, we have been walking in the morning and evening only. The wheat is particularly 'court sur pattes' ('short on its legs') as my husband says. In the 'canicule' (hottest bit), our walks were even more limited - very early morning and in moonlight. #Bourgogne #Heatwave #Canicule

A great one for #mammalmonday !

What an amazing sight! A good one for #birdoftheday, I think!

Aren't they cute bumblebee pollinators !? 🤗 #PollinatorWeek #Insect #macro #macrophotography #MacroMonday #InsectThursday #nature #mobilephotography

The patterning on this rare species is so beautiful - love those orange spots with white in their centres! #InsectThursday #Butterfly #Papillon

#InsectThursday Have been visiting this lavender - never seen so many bees and butterflies together. There seem to be a lot of insects around in general, in Burgundy this year - though that's just my informal observation. #butterflies #bees #Bourgogne 1/4

In the middle of all the ugliness, plants keep doing their thing: quietly proving that beauty is still possible.

The patterning of the slime mould is very interesting!

I've two questions about this monoprint and leaf... We believe it to be a geranium, but can anyone identify what kind? I plan for this leaf to be printed into cards and am thinking about its title. Something relating to the qualities of the plant... Do you prefer 'joy', 'soothe' or 'wish'?

Je suis en train de lire ce livre de Patricia Highsmith. C'est une collection de nouvelles accessibles qui invitent à réfléchir. Il y a un peu d'humour noire, réalisme et des fois, des histoires avec des animaux fantastiques 🐌🐢 Translation en anglais en dessous. #bookchatweekly 1/2

Love this style and the atmosphere created.

Drawn to cool blues in this heatwave... I created a monoprint with the leaf skeleton of a field maple some months ago. Now available in postcard form on premium paper. Title 'Endurance'. Available individually or as part of a set of three different leaf prints. amandatamsin.fr/products/lea...

I wonder what species this one is... Nice pink marking on its back. #insect #grasshopper

From a walk a few days ago (today we're in a heatwave, so didn't go far). De notre balade il y a quelque jours. Aujourd'hui nous sommes en canicule, donc on n'est pas allé bien loin. #Bourgogne #naturesky

#macrophotography #nature #flowers beauty of macro photography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedBeaks, any bird with Red on its beak. #wildlifephotography #naturephotography Von der Decken Hornbill, #MarylandZoo @dortress.bsky.social

Rather than our usual Saturday market, we exhibited at the 'Foire et Jeux Inter-Village' in Coulanges. A hot day, but the stalls were nicely positioned in the shade 🌳🌳🌳 I think this butterfly, which stopped by twice, liked my husband's calm energy. #Frenchvillage #Bourgogne #mixedmediaart

Such fascinating little animals!

I've just added a few of my handcrafted, one-of-a-kind macrame bracelets to the website, including this one with up-cycled bead. amandatamsin.fr/products/mac... #handmade #macrame

#ImageAndVerse The mind can go in a thousand directions but on this beautiful path I walk in peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh #poetry #mysticpoetry #peace #thichnhathanh photo: Tao of Gardening

Love this evocative artwork. #naturesky

I think we can learn from Dingo 🧡

Discovering a new street or two in #Auxerre La maison avec volets bleus m'a fait penser des rues où j'étais en Amérique du Sud, surtout en Chile. En découvrant des rue nouvelles en Auxerre. The house with blue shutters reminds me of some streets I've been to in South America, particularly Chile.

La codicia.

Fossils are #Portals to another time This stone was once a Dawn Redwood Tree that lived about 34 million years ago #WeekXForXyloid #AlphabetChallenge #SensoryArt #MuseumMonday #AMNH #ECK #Photography at the American Museum of Natural History (info abt the process of petrified wood in Alt text)

Perles Mérovingiennes, pâte de verre, Musée Abbaye St Germain, Auxerre. Trouvé dans le Yonne. J'aime particulièrement les perles translucentes. Merovingian beads (glass paste), Abbey St Germain Museum, Auxerre. Found in the Yonne. I particularly like the translucent ones. #MuseumMonday #beads

Love the way this one is emerging from the water 💚🍃 #MammalMonday

Did a little painting in the garden today. Just one layer on these hares... Definitely slow art. Sharing for #MammalMonday #workinprogress #mixedmedia

#MondayMarble a real treat. A clay marble, just retaining the trace of its painted pattern #Beachcombing #BeachMarbles

Which way is up? Pond lilies and their reflections. Occam Pond, Hanover NH, June 2026 #ECK #Photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Nature #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #PaintByWords #ColorADay #YellowThu #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWater

What a gorgeous, rich colour and a lovely effect with the droplets. #roses

Streets I regularly walk down, but each time something is different. A different hour, the June light... Des rues où je me promène régulièrement, mais chaque fois il y a quelque chose qui est différente. Une heure particulière, la lumière de juin... #WindowsonWednesday #baladedujour #Bourgogne

DAY 362 SPECIES 362 - Pyrgo elongata MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura & Writech pen Pyrgo elongata is a marine foraminifera with a smooth calcium carbonate shell. Its widely distributed across the worlds oceans #sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky

Enjoying getting back into my macrame practice, alongside painting/drawing. Just finished this adjustable pendant with a stone which I believe is green agate (plus an up-cycled red coral chip). Do you alternative between different creative practices, and find this helpful? #macrame #artbyhumans

I do like bilingual posts, and this is an interesting and inspiring account too. J'aime bien les postes bilingues, et cet compte est intéressant et une source d'inspiration aussi.

Once in Piraeus, Marthe Oulié, Hermine de Saussure, Ella Maillart and Mariel Jean-Brunhes took the ferry to Crete to work at Malia from 14 September to 18 October 1925. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Greece #Crete #Travel #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

I found the leaf skeleton used in this monoprint along a woodland pathway - it looked like a folded white handkerchief. I opened it out to see the lovely field maple shape. My original artwork and postcard prints are available here: www.amandatamsin.fr #naturesky #mixedmediaart #postcards

A turkey vulture greeting me on a post in the parking lot yesterday. For Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #BorrowedPlaces. Michigan USA. #Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #Vultures #BirdsSeenIn2026 #BirdsOfPrey

Keir Starmer is spearheading one of the most shocking attacks on civil liberties in modern times – even though Independent analysis shows these changes would make NO meaningful difference to the court backlog @peterstefanovic.bsky.social thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2026/05/17/v...

A lovely reminder.

The sunrise is beautiful, the rose that bloomed this morning along the wall is a miracle. Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. To meditate well, we have to smile a lot. #ThichNhatHanh

Haunts and visitations...

As I'm fond of saying... When bluebells fade the foxgloves play

We walked through the Réserve Naturelle Bois du Parc today. A magical place... As we follow the path the habitat changes from from an area of warm, dry woodland with stunted trees and clearings to a cool, humid green valley with ferns. #baladedujour #bourgognefranchecomté 1/3

It's not uncommon for American Black Bears to visit our yard at night, sniffing around the birdfeeders and such. But this one visited the backyard at high noon last week. Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada May 2026 📷 #mammals #bear #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor180600

There is something so cheerful about a finch!

Pentagonite floater crystal, it would fit on your fingernai! Wagholi Quarry, Pune, India. 🧪 #sciart #earthscience #mineralspecimens #crystals #macrophotography #mineralcollection #geology #amazingnature

Lots to think about from this story. #PhantomsFriday

Every now and then, I make some unique macrame bracelets. Shall I add them to my online shop? #macrame #artbyhumans