Black Poplar in Brantôme-en-Périgord, France. Estimated to be at least 150 years old.

One of my favourite trees is a local Black Poplar 💚🌳
Here's a photo from yesterday. Just about to start coming into leaf 🌿

#ThickTrunkTuesday

It really feels like we're increasingly accelerating towards a cliff edge.
Deeply disturbing times for those of us who need to eat and drink water to live 🙃

Happy #thicktrunktuesday
🌲🌳💚

(In the park at Brantôme, yesterday)

Do this one next ✌️🙏

As an aside, when saw this post, I read it as Monster Race.
#extinction

Nice villanelle, Don 🖤.
Dylan Thomas would doff his cap.

Incredibly intelligent birds 💚

As with most corvidae, their brain to weight ratio is significantly higher than, for example, a current US president.
😂

They're also one of the greatest planters of oak trees 🌳

One of the finest explanations of how we are able to even exist, Pirjo !

It's a well referred to book on my shelf. All nemophilists should embrace this ! 💚🌳🌲🖤

The last time I saw a swelling of this size was a big balled Taiwan thing. 13th August 25.

Totally agree, Leana 🦇😊
Just spent a lovely hour or so wandering around here viewing or ecolocating my Bat Pack!
Pipistrelle, Common Noctule and Barbastelle ! 🦇💚🦇💚🦇

There are those who, faced with a mosquito problem, turn to chems as an answer. Here, they're rarely a problem thanks to bats 🦇

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Literally devastating news

And almost certainly even worse because the models don't include the effects of huge volumes of Greenland meltwater pouring into the North Atlantic at a rate of 30 million tonnes AN HOUR

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sorry to hear this my friend. 🖤
Nature's the only thing that makes any sense to me nowadays. It's far too close to midnight...

#ticktock
#IntoTheWild

I've been spending too much time in the woods lately. Seems to me it's been time well spent.

I'm living so far outside the box now, I can't remember where I left the fecking thing. 🖤

You know you’re an introvert when…

- You want to go home before you even leave
- You’re chatty online but quiet IRL
- Small talk feels awkward & exhausting
- A cozy night in beats any night out
- You regret plans made during a rare extrovert moment
- A surprise knock at the door = panic mode

I'd not idea what this Allbirds shite was all about. Now I know, I wish I still didn't.

These collapse aphorisms sometimes write themselves.

Evenings Ian.

#collapse
#SneakyFuckwits

Beyrouth fut un temps le carrefour de civilisations, de cultures et de religions où la tolérance et le respect étaient de mises pour une paix entre les humains.Aujourd'hui et, malheureusement encore hier ce Liban là s'est brisé sous la houlette meurtrière d'affrontements entre religions , territoires et soif de pouvoir colonisateur.Un jour puise être la fin de la connerie humaine pour que ces habitants retrouvent enfin la joie de vivre en paix.Le Cèdre du Liban est pour moi ce symbole existentiel d'humains et de non humains vivant en harmonie avec et dans la Nature.

Aujourd'hui, mon neveux est venu chercher le dernier Cèdre du Liban que j'ai cultivé et bichonné depuis quelques années pour le planter chez lui.
Puise être là un symbole pour une paix retrouvée avec au fil du temps voir apparaître ses plateaux emblématiques que seul le Cèdre du Liban peut avoir.

Magnifique Michel !
💚🌲☮️✌️🇱🇧

Yep, this exactly Sherry.
I can't be arsed to post much any more. Us polyester clad murder apes have fvcked this planet beyond saving 🖤
#collapse
#6thMassExtinctionEvent

Tree roots, like strength, can endure through the seasons,year after year.Intertwined with the roots of other trees, they are not alone in their quiet presence.Think of the tree's roots when "being strong" is too much for you, because perhaps strength, like tree roots,is something meant to be shared

Happy chocolate turtle day Ian!
Shits getting real.

As a dweller in this region, living in a 187 year old place that has little in the way of foundations, built on an almost entirely clay substrate, the void gaps that open and close are truly impressive.

#shiftingsands
#collapse

An Asphodel plant just opening into flower on a road verge

Several Asphodel plants opening into flower on a roadside verge

After the cow slips, now begins the time of Asphodel. Several plants just opening into flower on a roadside verge

In Greek mythology, Asphodel flowers were associated with the underworld, death, and mourning.

I personally love to see this underrated verge side beauty.
After the magnificent primrose and cowslip display, bring them on 🖤

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥
French Senator
Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

As an introvert, this planning to meet peeps is, in itself, horrific.

#INFJ 🖤

The 2026 Southwest U.S. heat wave was one of the six most astonishing weather events of the century » Yale Climate Connections From the Pacific Northwest to Antarctica, it's extraordinary warmth that's punching through climate norms with the most force.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 3, 2026 ~ Strangers on a strange planet.

"Since climate change is also fundamentally disrupting atmospheric circulation patterns, we now have mega-unprecedented extreme events occurring with regularity."

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...

Evenings Ian

Two exceptional works also!
🖤🖤

Good call Ian 👌
Been a while for me and Orbital.
The Box was the last.
I live so far outside of the box now I don't know where it is anymore.

I don't have children personally, but the pace at which we're actually going backwards is seriously scary. At this point I don't think we have decades left 😢

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history 🖤

Any day now seems to have taken far too many decades.
We've left it a bit late now, haven't we? 🤔

Any day now we'll realise how we totally messed up this liveable biosphere of which, as just another species, we're a part of. 🖤