No one saw the squad of four #slip through the bay A shadow void their wake They just held station Waiting for the target to pass a headland into open sea Then they would close the gap and make the kill For now they watched the matriarch direct Small flicks of fluke and fin Orca in full flow #Vss365

#Drizzle cake The kind of cake that soaks you through Succulent and soft but with crystalline edges Citrus cutting through Sharp but not drawing blood #Vss365

The harbour had become more unsafe over recent years A lack of care and maintenance was allowing winter storms to put our boat in peril, so reluctantly we made the decision to #unmoor and move on They'd been happy years but we would have to risk the open sea now, and hope for clement weather #Vss365

And then someone saw the answer As it was built they could #bend and curve it, until they had put him on the inside Everyone else on the outside All were happy Even him As he had his wall #Vss365

Whenever I've really looked at you You have always been the same Other people #bend to you Knowing they'll be warmed by your love #Vss365

With what colour thread Will the day warp it's #loom As we climb out of bed Will our weft make it bloom? #vss365 #Quatrain March 6th 2025 #Tree #Photography

From stable comfort Times #veer towards confusion Tangerine sunset #Vss365 #Haiku

Skeletal branches Push aching fingers skyward Starling clouds #murmur #Vss365 #Haiku

Before the collision Lock Lane v Toll Bar January 18th 2025 #Photography

Fear the leather seated car Which sits in direct summer sun And so develops heat to #sear Great strips of flesh from anyone Wearing shorts #Vss365

A little light competition January 14th 2026 #Photography

The slightest misalignment A scarcely perceived sound Each serendipitous moment #Wonky 's where the beauty's found #Vss365 #Quatrain

A waning crescent moon in the developing morning sky January 14th 2026 #Photography #Photohour

For people out in the Bluesky who make a living from #Photography, what do you do when you find out your photos have been used without permission or even due credit?

I missed the best of it but it was still a good sky tonight January 13th 2026 #Sunset #Photography

The #Stoop fell race #Vss365

Even the moon can look lost and alone in the expanse of what is the morning sky. January 12th 2026 #Photography #Photohour

Two Starlings hold a grudge, while another chooses to look the other way October 6th 2025 #BirdOfTheDay theme #MoodyFace #Birds

It was always illuminating listening to him ramble on and the levels of hypocrisy were #unmissable when he threatened to intervene if foreign protests were subject to authoritarian violence, when his own henchmen cracked down on them at home. #Vss365

Ink and Watercolour Sunflowers

Always the tension Bat tapping at the right toe First #delivery #Vss365 #haiku

The chill came from his deadpan #delivery. He would rely on his conscience to rein in his power. I said that it showed such a great amount of hubris. He said thank you. #Vss365

Shaking drooping heads A special #delivery The month of Snowdrops #Vss365

A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Little rabbit eared plastic sacs #Adorn Hawthorn on this ancient lane The outcome of symbolic acts Anonymising blame #Vss365 #Quatrain

The morning revealed Ascending suns #symphony Solace from the east #Vss365 #Haiku December 24th 2025 #Photography

The wind ploughs furrows through the morning sky Attempting to bury a waning Moon January 7th 2026 #Photography #Stormhour

Greenland and NATO #spooked Vlademort is laughing his cock off. #Vss365

Adding to the clouds January 6th 2026 #Photography #Photohour

The cold seeped into the bones of the house. It's filaments reaching along skirting boards and under doors, finding the path of least resistance. There were always odd noises from the wind but that night was death still. The night was quiet. Safe and secure. Until something #spooked the dog. #Vss365

Swan on the Aire and Calder Canal at Great Heck January 6th 2026 #Birds #Photography #Photohour #Canals

Skeletal trees against the dawn sky January 6th 2026 #Photography #Photohour #Sunrise

The snow didn't come but the frost came harder January 6th 2026 #Photography #Photohour #Sunrise

There was snow in the clouds at #Sunrise this morning January 5th 2026 #Photography #Stormhour

He took note of their fake tan, matching shiny suits, overly long red ties and tighter than necessary trousers. What a bunch of #Oddballs they were..... #Vss365

The moon sinks #Clueless and carefree And as I watch I also think I wish that could be me #Vss365 #Quatrain The setting waning gibbous moon over Kirk Smeaton January 4th 2026 #Photography

Morning #Moon on the way down January 4th 2026 #Photography #Photohour

Kestrel using the last light after #sunset January 3rd 2026 #Birds #Photography

Wolf #Moon rising above Drax power station. January 3rd 2026 #Photography #Photohour

Four Silver Birch on Askern Pit tip January 3rd 2026 #Tree #Photography

The Moon and Jupiter January 3rd 2026 #Photography

Trump is doing what they call "A Putin".

Q. So why do I need running shoes shorts and vest to play this game? We named it Call my Bluff after the TV program not #Balderdash, that was generational I suppose. A. Oh no this isn't a word game. We start at the top of this hill and run down it, while they roll big rocks after us... #Vss365

When the prospect of a murmuration completely takes your attention from the football. Doncaster Rovers v Bolton Wanderers And then they went out of sight January 1st 2026 #Birds

First full moon of 2026 January 2nd 2025 #Photography #Photohour

The river had dwindled to small pools rimmed with salts and algal blooms which as they dried, flaked and blew off downwind. Water #abstraction stopped when the level dropped below the pump intakes, so crops had desiccated to paper. Lastly the people had wizened. All under that merciless sun. #Vss365

First #moon of the year Waxing Gibbous January 1st 2026 #Photography

#DailyPictureTheme One of my favourite photos from 2025 Toadlet on a mountain path August 27th 2025 #Nature #Photography

A Grand Central train heading to Bradford Forster Square December 31st 2025 #Photography

First foot gets Half a Crown she says with #delight Though in the mirror her dark headed boy is gone Now the man with worried hair The light is larger today But it's a cold wind blowing him along Thinking Reasoning Reconciling Still In her heart lives a dark haired boy she brought up to love #Vss365