This seems like such a timely book - I look forward to hearing more about it!

Pretty wildflowers growing from tall green stems. The sun is illuminating delicate crêpe-paper-like white petals.

Earth Day: the perfect time to stop and appreciate what we've got. 🌍 I'm so grateful for our beautiful home planet, we really need to stop taking it for granted. All lives are interconnected. We have a responsibility to look after our Earth. 💚

#EarthDay #Gratitude #Bloomscrolling #ProtectNature

There's only one perfect photo for this year's Earth Day, and it's this one that the Artemis II crew took. Happy Earth Day.

Even in shandy form, I still wouldn't touch Tennent's with a barge pole 😆

That's a lovely gesture 💛

No way is that a coincidence! 🪷

A patch of pretty daisy-like flowers in bloom, with pinkish-purple petals and green leaves. (I believe they might be Cape Marguerites.)

A little #Bloomscrolling is good for the soul. 🌸

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A large owl butterfly is resting on a slice of fresh orange and feeding on the fruit. Its colours are muted shades of brown, with a distinctive yellow and black "eye" or spot pattern on its lower wings. Leafy green foliage can be seen in the background.

Another 🦋 for @rina2012.bsky.social's #ButterflyWeek.

I believe this is an owl butterfly, it was huge! I saw it up close on a visit to the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam last April with my sister. I also love the Dutch word for butterflies, "vlinders" - it feels very apt!

#Butterfly #Tropical

A small copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) rests on a batch of yellow daisy-like flowers with forest greenery behind. The butterfly is a vibrant orange colour with deep brown markings.

I just found out about @rina2012.bsky.social's #ButterflyWeek, so here is one from me! 🦋

Small copper butterfly, seen in the Thornielee Forest, Scottish Borders, August 2021.

#Butterfly #ShotOnCanon #Noticing #ProtectNature #Stunday

Thanks Robin! 💚

Signed!

A beautiful tree at the edge of the Gala Policies woodland. Its green leaves are illuminated by the sunlight and dappling the moss-covered network of tree roots.

A lovely (beech?) tree at the edge of the Gala Policies, a local woodland here in Galashiels. 🌳 It is part of the Southern Upland Way, which is a route spanning from the west coast of Scotland right across to the east coast.

#Edge #BlueskyArtShow #Scotland #ScottishBorders

That is very nifty indeed! 📚

A close-cropped photo of a train platform edge with various markings and textures. The overall effect looks like bands of assorted horizontal stripes with a vignette effect/blurred edges. A thick yellow line has been painted on the ground, followed by a dot pattern of raised yellow bumps for the visually impaired, and the stencilled words "mind the gap" in yellow paint and a white-ish paving along the very edge of the platform.

"Please mind the gap."

#Edge #BlueskyArtShow #MindTheGap

High stone garden wall with some holly growing above it. There is a street sign that used to read "Victoria Gardens" but it's old and badly damaged with parts of the lettering having crumbled away.

The #edge of this street sign in Kirkcaldy had all crumbled away.

#BlueSkyArtShow

Ahaha, so true! Walking around that city has certainly kept me fit(ter) over the years!

View from above a set of train tracks at Edinburgh Park train station, looking towards the city. In the distance is the distinctive outline of Arthur's Seat and a blue sky with big puffy clouds.

Snapshot from the #edge of a city (Edinburgh), looking towards Arthur's Seat.

#BlueskyArtShow

The imposing ruins of Kelso Abbey in the south of Scotland, with a view of the cemetery within its grounds, where there are many lovely old headstones to explore.

Such a difference to how it looks today - or what's left of it! The Kelso Abbey ruins are still pretty impressive all the same.

Martin Gregus Jr. captured a pod of narwhals on film: #AGoodPlace

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One for you @shanchat.bsky.social 🐶🐾

Sketchbook page (neutral/creamy coloured bamboo paper) showing a coloured pencil drawing of a pink rose in bloom, surrounded by green leaves.

Slightly belated post for World Art Day. 💜

I drew this for someone who used to teach me when I lived in Berlin. 🇩🇪 Something that feels like a long time ago now, but I fondly remember. 🌺 A *lot* less screen time in those days - no bad thing! I defo did a lot more drawing back then.

#AnalogueArt

On a one-way trip, preferably!

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Kookaburra - Wikipedia

Pretty sure that’s a Kookaburra 😊

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They really are indestructible!

Ooof, hard relate! I often think kindness and being open to actually feeling your feelings (stuffing them down never ends well!) are wildly underrated qualities. I accept that when it comes with anxiety, it can be something of a double-edged sword, however!

I have a lefty Squier precision bass that I saved up for with money from my first ever job, circa 2000, and though I don't play it often now, it still has the same strings on it! 😂

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