American Dogwoods are fruiting and Northern Flickers are one of many species filling up taking advantage #birds #birding #bird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #woodpeckers

Finished the #cross-stitch based on @illustoryart.bsky.social 's coloring page

#ofmd #ofmdfanart #craft #handmade

There's only about half an hour of the weekend left ... It's only natural to feel sunken like a punkin.

Imaginative artwork by @mikez.bsky.social 🙏🏻

#art #steampunk #pumpkin
#Halloween #SpookySeason

One last #WeekOforOpulent The early 19th cent Pillar Hall at Belsay was intended to impress, fashioned in the Greek Revival style. The doric pillars supporting the portico are copied from an Athenian temple. The architect looked to Rome for the layout, based on the ancient villa #AlphabetChallenge

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research!
Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q
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Greta Thunberg proved it with her determination.

She started a global movement
✊🏼🇵🇸

She turned fear into strength, anger into action.
She reminded us that you don't have to be powerful to change things - you need to have the courage to start.

Jewels

If I leave last
Unknown hands will open drawers Empty pockets, tins and jars
Of tiny sand-packed shells
Wee pebbles worn smooth in the swell, and glass of soft-ground Gulf Stream green
And I will be on the West Beach with the oystercatchers
Singing
On the edge of the Atlantic

#PegsPoyums

Soon be time for winter gulling. Too soon? How many white winged gulls in this shot at Dennis Point, Pubnico NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-...

Tag the women pharmacists you know!! #womenpharmacistday

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

Last chance to register for Steph Halmhofer’s talk this coming Tuesday! Essential for anyone interested in the relationship between pseudo-archaeology, conspiracy, and extreme political ideology. Link below to register, we hope to see you there!

🧵 I love vibrant colours & the excitement they provide, as well as learning about the mythology & art of ancient Gaelic times. Such as at Glendalough [my pic]. These things have a massive impact on my own art.

You’ll see that influence in this thread of one-off ink drawings if you scroll down! [1]

Nearly 50 years later on Nov. 14, 1606, Samuel de Champlain and the inhabitants of New France held a thanksgiving feast with the Mi'kmaq. It was here the Mi'kmaq introduced the French to cranberries. The French called them petites pommes rouges (little red apples).

🧵4/10

A few pictures for Red Squirrel Awareness Week @uksquirrelaccord.bsky.social @northwildlife.bsky.social

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

#Howl-A-Ween #SpookySeason #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Cold #blood ed

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Apples, Asters, Berries, and Mushrooms - it's definitely feeling autumnal in the garden this week 🍂

#SevenOnSunday #Gardening

Campion in bloom (just) and also showing seedheads at the edge of damp, shaded woodland this evening Warden #Northumberland #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

More roadside botanising in north west #Northumberland this afternoon. Chicory along the verges of the B6531 #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Mallow thriving by the roadside late this afternoon
Warden #Northumberland #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#SundaySheep and sunset. Live report from the west #Northumberland countryside 🗞️

#SheeponSunday
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#nature
#sunset

"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
~ Virginia Woolf

'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

Hello, clear-sighted creators! 💡

The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 12 October 2025 is #Lumen ✨

If you'd like to take over and host the relay the week after me, please don't hesitate to reach out!

#Micropoetry #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

#WildWalkPrompt

Red rests upon green,
Berries foreshadow winter,
Seasons mingling.

#Haiku #nature #poetry #blueskypoet #poem #tree #berries