Mare’s Tails and Reeds

#TextureTuesday

A spike of purple flowers emerging from a rosette of spotted leaves

Early Purple Orchid.

Nightingale.

A new-born lamb had just found its feet when I entered the bluebell wood. When I returned, it had a sibling. A kite loitered at the edge of the field. #spring #afterbirth

One of the four ‘Dacre Bears’ located in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s Church at Dacre in Cumbria. Their origins are unknown, but it has been suggested that they are pre-Saxon and may have served as boundary markers for a pagan shrine. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Darce

Spent the afternoon there today. Wow! Thanks for the timely reminder.

The Bones of the Dead, or Three Turns Counterclockwise, by Mat McNerney 9 track album

a member of my PhD committee, Per Faxneld, has recently published his occult folk-horror novel Tre Varv Motsols.

To accompany the book, Finnish occult rock band Hexvessel have release a "soundtrack" album that is all the Scandinavian with vibes you need.

hexvessel.bandcamp.com/album/the-bo...

Maybe we should call it 'oceaning' instead of 'landing'?

A crescent earth peeking out from behind the cratered moon

A crescent earth small compared to the quarter moon visible but dark in the foreground

The dark moon eclipsing the sun exposing the bright corona with a few stars visible in the background

I am UNWELL!!!!!! These pictures are SO AMAZINGGGGGG

A few of my favorites of the images NASA released from yesterday's Artemis II lunar flyby. The crescent Earth? The solar eclipse?!? The details on the Moon?!?!? perfection

If Englanders are English, are Hooklanders Hooklish?

Mating Large Pine Weevils

Ant Beetle

Life among the pine stumps.

The Fortean and Folklore Origins of Hookland
28 April 2026 7.30 pm The Bell, E1
@hookland.bsky.social

Hookland – an open-source strange landscape whose motto is re-enchantment is resistance.

Details & Tickets:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Too many words for alt text, sorry.

Boarded-up seafront building, dirty, off-white and sunlit.

Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social appreciation post.

Medieval saxon tower - the full length , circular in nature set against a tower at Hough on the Hill, Lincolnshire.

My latest digest is about when I came across a remarkable Saxon survival - a circular stair turret and part tower - read on for the location and more pics 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

William S Burroughs & John Cale - Ah Pook Is Here YouTube video by ForARide

Ah Pook, the Destroyer, is here…

youtu.be/Gen7_djK7eg

View of the inside of a WW2 gun emplacement

Emplacement

Ponies grazing on the Welsh hillside.

In ‘The Sleeping Lord’ (1974), David Jones identifies the sleeping Arthur of Welsh tradition with the land itself:

‘Does the land wait the sleeping lord
or is the wasted land
that very lord who sleeps?’

#WorldPoetryDay

🎨David Jones, ‘Hill Pasture’ (1925)

A woodcut depicting Jack of Lent, a skinny figure riding upon a herring, symbolic of the deprivation of Lent

'but what do eggs and rabbits have to do with Jesus' is as historically oblivious a comment as 'what does a bloke riding around on a herring have to do with Jesus'

They both have to do with Lent and the observation of Lent

Silhouettes fishing from the end of Bognor Pier in spring sunshine.

Beyond the crowds.

Project to map Dorset's ancient sunken holloways A 3D survey is being carried out to delve deeper into the formation of the tunnel-like holloways.

There's plans for one, according to this article www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Happy Weird Pride Day to all who celebrate!

I'm really happy with how it's coming together so far. I hope we'll see a good few people posting bits of writing and videos and things today, too, besides the things I've directly organised myself (with help from many others)...

A lot of frogspawn in a pond, scrambling the reflected sky.

The frogs must have been busy last night.

Post a tree you photographed.

BTS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS

Something to do with BTS?

Alt text: close up of beech bark showing varied bands of colour (better late than never!)

It appears as if someone has started to track this person’s alts in a list you can subscribe to for blocking bsky.app/profile/did:...

I would recommend following @listifications.app. Found out that I've been added to fake MAGA lists (attempts to disrupt engagement for non-right-wing accounts) by these accounts (block 'em). @benisglory.bsky.social
@watchdog666.bsky.social
@emeratra.bsky.social

Beech/littoral zone.