A top-down view of a brownish-grey surface with deep black cracks, big ones branching into smaller ones, into smaller ones, into smaller ones …
Nature loves fractals! Cracks in very fine-grained dried silt on a construction site.
In this very fun installment of PBS, @bartb.ie teaches us how to use CSS “variables”, which aren't actually variables (they're custom properties). Theyallow you to take advantage of Bootstrap to style web pages, but make the look and feel all your own.
pbs.bartificer.net/pbs182
#Programming #CSS
A close view of small purple flowers growing on a stone wall. The flowers are growing from long creeper-like stems with small three-pointe leaves. The flowers themselves are just a few mm across and have asymmetric petals — two pointing up like ears, and, and three spread out over the lower half. Two yellow humps rise up in the center, looking like big eyes! There is a hint of an urban setting visible behind in soft focus.
The Ivy-leaved Toadflax is starting to sprout out of the seams in the old stone walls all around #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A closeup of a flower head with three deep purple flowers and some buds standing proud of a background of variegated dark green & silver leaves. The flowers are beak-shaped and curving down a little. The leaves are drop-shaped with a ribbed edge and a very veiny texture.
Absolutely beautiful Spotted Deadnettles in a flower bed maintained by the wonderful volunteers in the #Maynooth Tidy Towns's committee at the bottom of Bond Bridge. #Bloomscrolling
A close view of two large loosely closed white flower buds covers in raindrops but lit by the sun. A large old Georgian house can be seen behind in soft focus, with a little blue sky and some clouds above.
White Tulips in front of Stoyte House in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth between the April showers! #Bloomscrolling
A portrait-oriented closeup of a cluster of round yellow flowers, each made up of hundreds of long thin strip-like petals with a canal and the front of a train behind in soft focus. The flowers are on the near bank of the canal, and the train on the far bank. The front of the train is the same shade of yellow as the flowers.
Yellow meets yellow — a yellow-fronted #IrishRail Commuter train leaving #Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal passes a cluster of yellow Dandelions. #Bloomscrolling
A close wide view of the white blooms at the top of a tall wild flower growing next to a rural road. The plant is about two foot tall, and the flowers are in clusters stop stalks with pyramidal arrangements of leaves, big and wide near the ground, and shrinking closer to the tip. Each leaf is broadly spade shaped, but has very jagged edges and very defined veins. The individual flowers are small, pure white, and have four widely spaced petals. Trees line the road, and a car can be seen approaching in soft focus behind.
Garlic Mustard in bloom along the Kilcock road out of #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A macro view of a small purple flower sprouting from a seam in a traditional stone wall. The flowers have four petals and are collected into a little cluster at the top of a small stalk rising up about an inch from a cluster of small arugula-like leaves.
The first tiny little Fairy Foxgloves I've spotted this year — in this case, growing along the old stone wall between the top of Main St. and Tesco in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A top-down view into a large bowl-shaped bright yellow flower. Green grass speckled with small blue flowers can be seen below in soft focus around the edges of the flower. Six black stamens surround a central yellow three-pointed stamen in the center of the flower, adding some interesting symmetry.
Pure yellow tulips in front of Loftus Hall in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A low and wide view of flowers growing under trees. The flowers are small little blue bell-shaped flowers hanging down from the tops of foot-high flowering stalks, the flowering stalks rise up from between rings of dark green grass-like leaves that arc up from their centers and then back down. These arcing leaves lead the eye from the foreground to the nearest flower stalks. The trees behind have no leaves yet, and some have distinctive silvery white bark.
Bluebells under the trees in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A square piece of l blue sky with thin wisps of white cloud with a small turboprop plane seen from directly below in the top-right quadrant flying down and to the left.
Little ATR 72-600 EI-GPO passing over Maynooth through a lovely blue sky as it approached Dublin as Aer Lingus Regional flight EA3931 from Newquay on Easter Monday evening.
A top-down view into a large bowl-shaped flower with textured day-glow-pink petals turning orange at the centre. A single stamen with a tree-pointed top stands in the center. The grass beneath can be seen around the edges, as can part of a second, smaller, still closed flower in the upper-left corner.
Stunning pink Tulips with low morning sun shining through their petals along the Kilcock road in #Maynooth. The residents along this street do such a nice job of adding a splash of colour to grass verge in front of the houses! #Bloomscrolling
Yea — thank goodness for iNaturalist, because I’d never have managed to look it up in a reference book!
… the more subtle choice was to evoke the feeling of being in a vert tall place by framing all the shots vertically. I didn't want to be too heavy-handed, so some are only a little vertical at 4:5, but others are as vertical as 2:3.
I hope my choices paid off 🤞
… the more obvious choice was to shoot low, close & wide. I like to shoot from my subject's level anyway, and by getting very close I can shoot wide without losing detail in the flowers themselves. By shooting wide the background is expanded rather than compressed, so it retains a sense of place …
… My aim was not to capture the flowers, but the flowers in their woodland setting. I made two deliberate choices to try make that happen — one that should be relatively obvious, and a more subtle one that's intended to work subconsciously …
I've finished editing and sharing a series of photos showcasing spring flowers in the woods in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. I really like how they came out, and I hope you notice they're a little different to typical flower macros.
Let me explain why …
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A low and close view of a low-growing wild plant along the edge of a muddy forest trail. The plant is very low-growing and at first glance looks like it only has wide green waxy dark green notched leaves, but on closer inspection some stems stand a little tall if the leaves and are topped with tiny green flowers with four yellow-tipped stamens in the center of each.
These tiny little yellowy-green Opposite-leaved Golden-Saxifrage flowers are easy to miss, but I love the unusual texture they give our woodlands. I snapped these along one of the woodland trails in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
P.S., was glad I wore my trusty Merrell hiking shoes! 🙂
A low, close, and wide view of a small low-growing wild flower at the edge of an earthen woodland path. The flowers themselves are about and inch across and bright yellow, with a big central circle of stamens, and a ring of countless thin petals. The flowers stick up over a dense bed of dark glossy green spade-shaped leaves. The flowers dominate the right-foreground, with the path running past and disappearing into the distance to their left. The trunks of countless still bare trees can be seen in the background in soft focus.
These lovely yellow Lesser Celandines are carpeting the clear areas under the trees along the trails in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth ATM. The more showy blue & white carpets of Bluebells & wild garlic that will follow get all the attention, but I love these little yellow suns 🙂 #Bloomscolling
A ground-level close view of small purple wild flowers growing on a forest floor. The flowers are growing above dark green spade-shaped leaves, and each has two petals pointing up, like bunny ears, and row of three spread across their lower half like a broad face. There are very fine hairs in the center, where the colour changes to white with purple veins. Tree trunks are visible behind in soft focus.
Wild violets on the forest floor along a woodland trail in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. These tiny little gems are easy to overlook, but they are so pretty with their intricate little details! #Bloomscrolling
A close portrait-oriented view of the top part of a foot-tall flowering stalk with small dark blue bell-shaped flowers hanging from it. At the top is a cluster of still closed buds growing in a forest clearing. Behind, in soft focus is a sea of lush a dark green grass-like leaves speckled with more blue flowers, and a background of still bare trees at the end of the clearing.
Bluebells starting to bloom along one of the woodlands trials in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling
A low and wide shot close to a clump of wild flowers growing through last year’s brown fallen leaves on the floor of a deciduous forest with bare-branches trees. The base of a tree trunk frames the left of the frame and a dirt path can be seen curving through the right of the scene in the mid-distance.
Inspired by this month's category I stretched out my walk today to spend some time on the woodland trial in #CartonHouse near #Maynooth. Lots of stuff for me to sort through and edit over the next few days, but these little primroses along the path were instant keepers! #Bloomscrolling
A 3:2 landscape-oriented portrait of the upper neck and head of a long-necked grey, white, and black bird with a long pointed light yellow beak. The bird is perfectly side-on with a clearly visible eye. The lower neck is grey, most of the face is white, but there is a line of black from the beach across the eye leading to a sprig of black feathers sticking out from the back of the head and coming to a point as they droop down. Behind the bird in soft focus is dark still water with three green lily pads in the lower left corner and the reflections or bare tree branches in the top two corners.
A portrait of a Grey Heron on the #RoyalCanal near #Maynooth.
The top of a white big-top circus tent with four central poles adding four peaks to the top of the canvas. There are big red circles swooping across the canvas, some around the peaks, others in big arcs across entire diagonals. A big golden sign hanging between the two front tent poles reads “GERBOLA” in a big geometric font. There’s a blue sky with just one fluffy cloud above, and the scene is bathed in golden evening light, but the Irish flag in the right-most pole is being battered by a strengthening wind.
Just in time for #StormDave, the circus comes to town! (It survives fine 🙂) #Maynooth
Let's Talk Apple 151, the show for March 2026 with @bartb.ie is out: lets-talk.ie/lta151
The main stories are Apple's 26.4 OS updates, the new AirPods Max 2, the new Apple Business service, and of course Apple's 50th birthday! 🎂 🎉
A low, close and wide view of a small wild flower growing in lush green grass with a line of very tall trees framing the left of the scene in soft focus, and the outline of a church spire visible on the distant horizon in even softer focus in the top center of the image. The wild flower has a cluster of dark green glossy mottled leaves spread over the ground, from the center of which a stalk rises a few inches, atop which a little cluster of yellow flowers bloom.
Some cowslips hiding between the grass at the bottom of the playing fields in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. You can see hints of both the tall avenues running along the edges of the playing fields, and the college chapel in the background. #Bloomscrolling
. @contextmachine.bsky.social I dedicated an entire segment to Kagi when I guest-hosted the NosillaCast for @podfeet.bsky.social this time last year: www.podfeet.com/blog/2025/04...
. @contextmachine.bsky.social — great to hear you guys talk about Kagi, I've been a paid user for years, and it rocks! The ability to choose my own data cards, and, to teach Kagi what sites I NEVER want to see in my results, and which I love, are game-changers! It's MY search engine!
A low relatively close and wide flies of a cluster of flowers growing in parkland. The flowers closet to the viewer in sharp Focus are trumpet shaped with a large bright white ring of petals around a golden orange trumpet. The flowers behind are not open yet, but big yellow buds are visible.
The Daffodils are getting ready to hand the baton to the Tulips behind! #Bloomscrolling
