Also why do we tolerate Presidency by social media posts?

for me too, although the smartphone is just so damned convenient!

Brown, grey, and taupe colours adorn a moth's wings in an intricate pattern that ought to be a fabric. The moth rests on the photographer's fingertip against a red brick wall as background.

Morning after the first moth trap set. The Moth Adrenaline is back!

#MothsMatter
#IAmAddicted

Great shot! Congratulations!

Smallish butterfly with a dark underside hangs, upside-down, from a small branch. Her thorax is curled toward the branch; she is apparently laying eggs for another brood.

"There Will Be Commas"

Eastern Comma laying eggs in our woods today

#Butterflies
#ButterflyWeek
#Naturephotography

Emmer is such an intellectual

Vance warns that Trump should stick to incoherent answers

Vance says Carl Sagan should be more careful when talking about cosmos

What a surprise

You were very fortunate (stating the obvious here)

What a photo! Resulting image is surreal.

please make this all stop

This assessment is correct. Islam is more gracious in its recognition of other religions than most people realise.

If I weren't leaving the UK tomorrow I would attend!

We can do it, too!

count me in

What?!!

Explains everything

Close-up of a butterfly with eyespots so large he(*) appears quite alarming! (* I may have the sec wrong here so am using the generic "he." So sue me.) The main colour on the butterfly's wings is a deep rust, but large blue eyespots surrounded by cream and black dominate the pattern of each wing. The butterfly rests on sandy soil, from which he is no doubt sipping some important mineral.

No question as to which image to post for this #Stunday --!

One of my aims for this UK visit was seeing, and getting a photo of, a Peacock. Late Thursday afternoon, just as I was giving up on getting close to this guy (?), he needed a fix of minerals, and I promptly moved in!

#Naturephotography

You're one of the reasons I'm here, in every sense of that statement

Cat with distinctive black and taupe markings stops to consider the pros and cons of walking over a bed of onions planted beneath protective neeting

My friends in Norfolk suspected their cat had developed a habit of traipsing through their patch of newly-planted onions

I caught her in the act

#Caturday

What a BEAUTY

He's too busy praising Allah

Close-up of a large butterfly with broad expanses of orange and brown on its wings. It sits upon a cluster of green leaves.

I cheated yesterday and went to a butterfly house, but I felt in need of a lepidoptera fix ... and I got it!

Also, it warmed my heart to hear several children rattling off the Latin and common names of species as we trudged through the exhibit

#Stunday
#Butterflies

Butterfly with red, blue, and white markings perches, facing downward, on a tree trunk in a sunlit forest

For #ForestFriday here's a photo op that presented itself on a June day in 2024

The Red Admiral's striking blue eyespot on its underside was beautifully set off against the green glow of the forest

#Naturephotography
#Butterflies

Doesn't even look real!

Wow. Envious. I think I need to move back here!

That Purple Thorn is amazing! I don't believe we have anything comparable.

And the alternative healthcare plans, remember?!

Decorative stonework on a building in London, featuring a very sublime-looking face

My favourite mascaron in London, on The Minories

#Architecture
#CityOfLondon