Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻

Photo of a baby leaf growing on a fatsia japonica plant. The leaf resembles a hand but with six fingers, like it could belong to an alien creature.

Baby fatsia japonica leaf looking like a little alien hand 👽🖖🏻

#gardening #plants #aliens

Photo of a tree with pink blossom on its branches.

Photo of a tree with pink blossom on its branches.

Photo of a tree with pink blossom on its branches.

Front garden cherry blossom.

#gardening #tree #sakura

Photo of a tree standing inside a mesh cordon while construction work goes on around it.

Renovation works continuing in Buoy Park. Heavy machinery has excavated around all the trees, leaving them standing on the islands of their own root systems.

#tree #Belfast

Photo of an illuminated tattoo parlour sign featuring a skull.

Tattoo parlour sign on a rainy Belfast night.

Photo of a brown guinea pig and a white and beige guinea pig in their enclosure with a hay cookie between them.

...and Mabel and Meryl

#pets

Photo of a green and yellow budgie and a blue and white budgie perched on top of a bird cage.

The menagerie:

Pru and Oonagh...

Photo of a sticker on a traffic light advertising a business called Black Cat Tattoo Studio.

Cats in advertisements always catch the eye

#cats #tattoos #Belfast

Photo of a beige and white guinea pig sleeping in a wooden tunnel

Meryl's so sleepy she has lost her legs

Photo of yellow flowers on an echeveria plant.

Flowering echeveria

#flowers #houseplants

Photo of a baby head sticker on an electrical junction box under the number 13012.

Electrical junction box baby

#Belfast

Photo of a city centre park in Belfast that has been dug up and looks very messy and muddy.

City centre green space 🫣

Photo of a brown guinea pig relaxing by a wooden tunnel in an enclosure.

Magnificent Mabel

Photo of a large bodied brown spider clinging to a wall

Photo of a large bodied brown spider at the bottom of a clear plastic cup

Strikingly marked, and sized, spider huddled in corner of our front door. Think it's a female missing sector orb weaver? It's mild out atm but due to get cold again so relocated it to our garage to give it a chance of surviving.

#spider

Photo of a large white flat topped mushroom growing in a garden planter.

Huge flat-topped mushroom growing in a dormant planter at the bottom of the garden, alongside a decaying oak leaf.

Photo of a cluster of bright red berries on a small holly tree in a back garden

Vivid red holly berries on a little tree at the bottom of the garden

Photo of the roof of a city centre bus stop, displaying images of Belfast landmarks.

Bus shelter art in Belfast city centre

Photo of a white and brown guinea pig in a cosy igloo styled to resemble a blueberry.

Photo of a white and brown guinea pig in a cosy igloo styled to resemble a blueberry.

Piggy in a blueberry

Photo of bird footprints in some shallow snow.

Snow tracks ☃️

The robin that rules our garden grabbing a mealworm on a chilly morning.

Photo of a brown guinea pig snoozing in a wooden tunnel.

Mabel snoozing her way into 2026 😴

Photo of a periwinkle flower alongside some leaves.

Vinca aka periwinkle flower, not minding the wintry weather

#gardening #GardenSky

An altered image from the show Star Trek: The Next Generation. An alien says to Riker and Tasha Yar "Ah. The nature of politics." A small child alien is with him. Both of the aliens' faces have been redacted with black rectangles.

logging on

Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’

This painting by William Ratcliffe depicts a quintessential scene of a Swedish cottage in winter. Inspired by his great friend, and Camden Town Group founder, Harold Gilman’s visit to Sweden in 1912, Ratcliffe began his own exploration of Scandinavia the following year.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Did u know? Warm winter weather caused by global warming has resulted in huge amounts of rain in the UK. Small souls like ants, worms & beetles will drown in waterlogged soil. To help excess rain drain away quicker avoid compacting the soil by walking on borders, or even your lawn right now. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🪱

'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd

(Manchester Art Gallery)

Artwork in greys, white and black of the front view of a reindeer with head turned to the right, the creature has thick fur and large antles, the background is dark grey

'Inky drawing of a reindeer' by Scottish artist, Kerry Phippen #WomensArt