Another beautiful morning on the hills. #sunrise #Dublin #Hellfire

A Peacock Pansy (Junonia almana) butterfly shows off its beautiful overwing pattern in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. Photo by Raju Karia #butterfly #peacockpansy #nature #wildlife #india

In the week before Walpurgis Night, the owl came one last time to the lost town of Stolberg on the foot of the Harz mountains to remember.

Our 51st #arkstringtide story is a little tale for #owlishmonday.

Read it below.

🎨 Craig Kosak

Queen of the Hum. An owl with big green-pupilled eyes looking out at the viewer, an electricity pylon behind the owl. Oak leaves and oak flowers surround the owl on their left and right. Linocut, white, black and green, Maria Strutz

3.05 am

Owl eyes
Bat wings
Moon dance
Night things
- Siana Bangura
#OwlishMonday

A sunshiny woodland walk bursting with singing birds ....

small white flowers with yellow stamens/stigmas .

Stitchwort. April 2026

#stitchwort #flowers #wildflowers #WildFlowerHour #Stunday #nature #photography #sonyalpha

Canada named most positive leader on world stage According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.

Canada named most positive leader on world stage

“Canada is seen as the No. 1 world influencer for the 10th year in a row.”

A Buckeye butterfly (wings spread) resting on gravelly ground, showing orange bands and multiple eye-like spots on each wing.

Hope it's not too late for Rina's #ButterflyWeek. #Buckeye

Went birding, came home with butterfly photos. 😀🤣

Hawthorn in Burgess Park. #WildflowerHour

#Wildflowerhour #CabbageFamily Garlic Mustard, Alliaria petiolata on a main road verge near Monmouth.

Changing Forget-me-not, Myosotis discolor, on Wareham Common today #wildflowerhour

Pasque Flowers, Pulsatilla vulgaris, on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket, contrasting with the Oil-seed Rape field behind. #WildflowerHour

This is one of the trends that legit gives me hope for the future of humanity

Life as a Mycock: What it's like to have an unfortunate surname For years, Andy Mycock didn't know others found his surname funny. Now, he's the one making the jokes.

Source: BBC
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This post also made us think about colourful animals in our collections.

Both of these were made at Wood Bros Glass Company in Barnsley.

Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

A page from Geoffrey Of Monmouth's 'History Of The Kings Of Britain' showing Merlin (portrayed as a giant figure) placing one of the lintels onto two upright stones at Stonehenge, watched by two other men.

"Aurelius ordered Merlin to erect round the burial-place the stones which he had brought from Ireland. Merlin obeyed the King's orders and put the stones up in a circle round the sepulchre."
- Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12thC account of the erection of Stonehenge.
#BookWormSat #StandingStoneSunday

This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.

Grüner Farn in einem Kiefernwald

Moin 🍀☕☕🍀

#GoodMorningPhoto #photography

Listen now: Dr. Paul Robichaud explores how ancient monuments have been reimagined across the centuries in folklore, literature, art and popular culture with New Books Network

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Where I am today in the virtual landscape of @forteanlondon.bsky.social's "Strange Central: Mysteries, Monsters, Ghosts and UFOs". My fascination is getting more fascinated with each talk 👻🛸👹😍

WORLD HERITAGE DAY - Born-digital illustration created by Marcus Abbott in 2013. © Historic England Archive

2/2 "...into dramatic moments of sensory perception. Knowing that the solstice falls on a certain day is one thing. Collectively witnessing it in the depths of winter would have been quite another ...”

WORLD HERITAGE DAY - General view of Stonehenge at sunrise - © English Heritage, credit James O. Davies

“The idea of Stonehenge as a realm of the dead, visited by the midwinter Sun, makes sense in light of .. passage tombs such as Newgrange. In both cases, the Neolithic builders used the stones to convert their knowledge..” 1/2

✍️ Jo Marchant, The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars #BookWormSat

Photo: Moss-covered trees grow and lean into each other on a forest hillside. Source: unnamed, pd, www.cosmos.so

#ForestFriday
The trees have started Friday;
they're dancing in the forest.

Standing cat with arched back facing right created with vertical strips of wood with peeling paint, all against a light blue background

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

I've been very neglectful recently of @themindfulnb.bsky.social so this weekend, I will play catch-up. Needing my weekly dose of Vanessa and Zeph x

In my dreams, the shadow of the Small Dog lingers ..... x

Not surprised .... how crass!

Screenshot of Audrey Hepburn having breakfast in NYC.

“We ate lunch at the cafeteria in the park. Afterwards, avoiding the zoo (Holly said she couldn't bear to see anything in a cage), we giggled, ran, sang along the paths toward the old wooden boathouse, now gone.” ~ Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), Truman Capote.
#BookWormSat #CentralPark