Ballykelly,NI.Once had a little connemara pony, a precious friend,with me til she sadly died aged 24.Went to Ballykelly primary,then Limavady & had some wonderful teachers.Still have nature books given as prizes at the primary.Memories of days out of class on nature study or art trips.
Late afternoon on the Tavvy canal
Print featuring a grey sun or large moon over silver water beyond a wooded shore with tall tree trunks and golden grasses
Sarah Ross-Thompson, fine art printmaker based on the South West Coast of Scotland #WomensArt
In the Classical tradition, Thalia was known as one of the nine Muses. As a
patron of comedy and pastoral poetry, sculptures often depict her carrying a comic mask, shepherds' crook and with a wreath of #ivy around her head.
#nature #mythology #writing #poetry #seasons #art #folklore
It was a badger!
Ian Wood’s photo of a badger admiring a mural came out on top in the prestigious contest.
Find out more about the photo👇 (8/9)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Step outside 🍃
A bird flies beside two blue irises.
'Bird and Irises' - Utagawa Hiroshige, originally in ca. 1830s, this one was a re-carved edition made in ca. 1930s.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #birds
Kishiwada Beach in Chiba Prefecture.
#Japan #nature #travel #explore #visitjapan #japantravel #naturephotography
🌿☕Warm early spring 🌱☀️ in Cheltenham today
The Trump administration has ordered the US to have 1 official language, English. The UK doesn't use English as it's official language, we have many languages like Welsh, Cornish, Irish
Grian an earraich, is Scots Gaelic for Spring Sunshine ☀️ gorgeous😍💐🌿
The wild calls… but maybe after this nap. 😴🐺
Image© apexprotectionproject
#wolf #Animal #naptime #Wolves
On this day, 3rd March, 1878, the poet Edward Thomas was born.
If I ever have a daughter, this is the song that I would probably play countless times to her. (So good!)
youtu.be/Jofq1Fvrm9s?...
This video was taken looking through my kitchen window so is a little hazy. Lovely to see the woodpecker in my garden.
A bumblebee working on a purple Buddleia flower.
A bumble bee deep in the centre of a dark pink flower, surrounded by bright green leaves.
Hoping for better times for Bumblebees this year - two photos from last summer 🐝🐝
One week to go until the 2025 SGFA Society of Graphic Fine Art - The Drawing Society exhibition at Mall Galleries in London!
I am delighted to have 2 works included this year- ‘Mussel Shells’ and ‘Found Sea Glass 5’.
Exhibition runs March 10th-15th.
#sgfa #drawingsociety
& sky at evening all movement - some slurryspreading (too soon after rain) brings shoals of gulls describing half a globe, a small hemisphere of concentration - a red kite moves distantly in its own orbit, a section of sky you hope clears by dusk that you may see an alignment of planets
afternoon thinking about the weirdness of wetlands - not-land, not-water - not-fresh, not-all-salt - the conditional creeks, territory of the more-than-human, aiming binoculars out onto quicksilver & dark ochre, barnacles & deer secure only your gaze can trespass undetected
I am sure many, many glasses will be raised, thoughts will be with you and fond memories of Heather will dwell in many hearts. Than you for letting us know, Heather will be so much missed by so many people..
I don't know how to say this, but with great sadness and a very heavy heart it is Heather's Funeral tomorrow, Tuesday 4th March, Heather would want you all to raise a large glass of something strong to celebrate her life. x
A red-wing blackbird, backlit by the sun, perches atop a cattail and ruffles its red shoulders, opens it’s beak in morning song as wisps of it’s breath curl around it in the cool morning air.
The red-wing blackbirds are calling in spring, and won’t take “no” for an answer.
Richmond BC. Mar. 1/25
#birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
The Eiffel Tower is lit up in blue and yellow in support of Ukraine🇺🇦
🎨: Agnes Herczeg
❣🤩😍🤩❣
Whitelight, White Heat, Venus in Furs. What i like to think of as the 'Banana' album. Nice pic.
The great persecutors are recruited from among the martyrs not quite beheaded.
- Cioran
Oh to be in Dorset, now that March is here.
Looking across Chapmans Pool to St Aldhems Head and the coastguard cottages.
@freedomtodoubt.bsky.social
#Dorset #Landscapes #photography #Seascapes
I have never forgotten the experience of seeing it on a visit to the gallery. I was wandering around as you do. and suddenly it was there, this numinous light that permeated the room. I was lucky to be alone that day, the gallery being quiet. I didn't leave that room for quite a while.
I agree.Perhaps these are characteristics common to the movement. I expect you have realised by now that both the music & art I love,I love for the indefinable chord they touch deep in me. It is the story that I perceive this work tells, that binds me in its spell, its power, the ambiguity of it.
UncertainChord @uncertainchord.bsky.social
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you-one painting per day for 20 days,in no particular order.No explanations,no reviews,just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 6
John William Waterhouse: The Magic Circle
