Congratulations and accolades for passing that crazy test!

A David Inshaw image of a lone figure traversing parallel lines on a dark green velvety field: ahead, a house on the horizon, an impossible sky as dark as night but with cloud curds hovering, and to the left a rainbow. Title: She Did Not Turn. 'She Did Not Turn', David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1974. Sleep tight. #davidinshaw

Tonight's goodnight image is 'She Did Not Turn', David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1974.
Sleep tight.

Stile action for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

It’s very Angel of the North

A wild coastal cliff scene with a single red hut

Wild Skokholm days in the wind & sun ☀️🌊🥰

Good drone surveys today of key monuments, under close supervision of the warden 🙏

Lovely capture of the light, on the snow and the sky, stunning.

A hilltop farm on a beautiful blue winter evening, snow in the foreground, tree branches agaist a twilight sky. 'Hill Top Farm, winter', Maxfield Parrish, oil on masonite, 1949.

'Hill Top Farm, winter', Maxfield Parrish, oil on masonite, 1949.

A golden morning light floods a minimally decorated Regency room.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a beetle-stuffed dunnock - I'm starting with 'Sunlight in the South Room, Kellie', John Henry Lorimer, oil on canvas, 1913.

top half of a handkerchief tree. its blossom looks like white handkerchiefs hanging from the branches. on a sunny day this week.

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday to the magnificent handkerchief tree (davidia involucrata) in bloom in the cemetery at the moment.

Whoop! I might have found a site, it’s whether the build is possible within the scope of the existing barn or whether the planners could be persuaded to go for rebuild on same footprint.

grey skies over an estuary on a summer's day. no-one around but us. the water is silvery in the reflection of the clouds.

A favourite listen in praise of the mighty curlew - Lento's spirit bird - for #WorldCurlewDay.

Episode 79 - Essence of estuary (32 mins)

Remote Essex. Road noise free. Just the sound of wind and birds in a creek.

> radiolento.podbean.com/e/essence-of... <

How wonderful!

Curlew sitting on drystone wall, above, another curlew in flight, wings and primaries spread.

A curlew feeds in the cottongrass.

#WorldCurlewDay, a day when the curlew stands for all species caught in the climate and biodiversity crisis. I will take a walk on the moor after lunch and be grateful for their presence.

I checked their website before mentioning but I’m sure it used to have one on the main tearoom, and in Harrogate, it looks so peculiar without.

Pencil drawing of a Regency shop front with an elegant bow window between two doorways, the one on the right open and giving a view into the shop where two customers can be seen. The shop window is full of goods for sale. Above the doorways are fanlights. The sign over the window reads "Betty Cafe Tea Rooms".

10th birthday of this drawing of Betty's Cafe & Tea Rooms, Stonegate, York. Where I used to get my Fat Rascals & take visitors for tea & cake. Sadly closed 2022 & now a bar.

#Pencil #drawing
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#ArtShare

😱 They’ve dropped the crucial apostrophe, ugh.
Lovely drawing though, when I can look beyond the screaming omission!

Trees beside a loch, shrouded in early morning mist and glowing in the sun.

When you are convinced nothing is going to happen at sunrise and then the light finally hits the loch . .

#fsprintmonday
#sharemondays2026
#photography #landscapephotography #photographers

A very straight edged Archaeological trench in the sunshine

CHAP's field school this year runs from 30 Aug - 18Sep... Conveniently not clashing with lots of other great summer excavations whilst also avoiding those scorching July days 😁
Please spread the word - a repost is always welcome!
This year we are in North Herts at a very special LIA/Roman site

Watercolour sketch of an open gate to a ginnel through a timber framed building. To the left of the ginnel is a red-painted door, part of a public house. To the right is a window and doorway of a shop that sells handbags.

Pencil sketch of an open gate to a ginnel through a timber framed building. To the left of the ginnel is a door, part of a public house. To the right is a window and doorway of a shop that sells handbags.

The easy to miss snicket at 49 Goodramgate York. Nestled by the former doorway of the Snickleways pub & Lily Vine handbag shop at no. 49. The opening is the access to Powell's Yard, a courtyard behind 49-51 Goodramgate that has a Wealden hall house rarely found this far north in England.

#drawing

Photo of a narrowboat cruising along a canal lined with low hedges and fields with the occasional tree still yet to come into leaf, under a patchy cloud blue sky.

A rather grand morning on the Grand Union
#boatlife
#ukcanals #canal #narrowboat
#KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways

Close up of a Cuckoo Flower growing on grassland. There are more in the background, along with Lesser Celandines.

I missed Wildflower Hour yesterday but here's some Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis) from NT Florence Court at the weekend.

The fields & road sides around here are full of it at the moment,which is wonderful to see.

#WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #CabbageFamily #Brassicaceae #Botany #Nature

Dressage these days tends to mean competition and passing tests, but initially it was simply the term for the training of horse and rider. Seems like the same has happened to education!

A babbling stream in July. Tall trees bend over. A wooden footbridge in the distance.

Episode 203 - Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge (part 2)

50 minutes from beside babbling water on a beautiful July day. For that time, this tiny corner of the world, seemed like a whole world in itself.

> radiolento.podbean.com/e/203-dartmo... <

A pencil being used to add lettering to a drawing on the platform supporting a sculpture of goddess Minerva and some books, an owl and theatrical mask. The words explain that Minerva was the goddess of wisdom and drama, the sculptor was John Wolstenholme and the date given is 1801.

A pencil, eraser and blending stump rest on a piece of paper on drawing of a street corner building with a sculpture of the goddess of wisdom and drama, Minerva.

Some words...
... that explain the sculpture. John Wolstenholme was the brother of the shop owner, a publisher and bookseller that also sold prints. The building on which she stands has some fabric remaining from the 1400s, rebuilt in brick in the 1790s.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #ArtShare

A bright sunny day, with a blue sky and some very light white cloud. The scene is a view down a valley. There is a farm track in the centre of the frame, winding gently away into the distance through the bright green grass of sheep pasture. On the left there is a rugged and steep mountainside, a mixture of exposed rock and vegetation. In the distance in the centre, there is another steep sided mountain, which then joins a ridge that runs towards and then off the right hand side of the frame.

Morning, folks... It's the start of a new week again and I hope you all have a good one, wherever the journey takes you.

😎👍

Photo: Ogwen Valley, June 2021

#MondayMotivation #BlueSkyMonday #BlueMonday #MountainMonday #Scape #LandscapePhotography #ECK #EastCoastKin #Hiking #Snowdonia #Wales

Rainbows glow brightly in evening sunlight as a storm rolls through the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland

Stormy skies with added colour.

Feel lucky to have captured these scenes in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland

If you’re in Milton Keynes and had an electronic keyboard nicked. Supply the make and model and you can have it back. #miltonkeynes

A screen shot of the webpage showing information relating to this talk. There is a photo of brightly coloured mineral samples on a black background. The text reads ‘mineral and Earth pigments in art and architecture - public lecture, 21 July 2016, 18.00-19.00, virtual and Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG’.

I’ll be giving a public lecture on mineral pigments in art @geolsoc.bsky.social on the evening of 21st July. You can attend in person or watch online. Registration details in the link below
www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/miner...

Once upon a time there was a ruler who made a bad decision. All the courtiers and servants knew it was a bad decision, but they put into effect the bad decision, for the ruler had already made and proclaimed the decision. And when it turned out to be a very bad decision indeed, those courtiers and servants were sacked by the now “furious” ruler.

The decision of a Prime Minister

Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson

The Empty City blog

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...

I’ve no idea where I first read lickety-split but it’s a perfect term for Shetlands pelting by.