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Mary B

@beesincampanula.bsky.social

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws… Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · Nov 17

If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan

A path in a birch wood strewn with autumn leaves

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 42m

#BirdOfTheDay is such a treat my feed is becoming filled with birds! Here is a flower to say, "Thank you", for sharing and appreciating my work. I am keen on the notion of 'turn taking' to ensure I share a variety of posts. Have a good evening x

#flowerphotography #sneezeweedhelenium #photography

The flower Sneezeweed is bright orange/yellow in colour and set against green foliage. This image in in black and white.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1h

'Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne.'
Alice Bailly became attuned to many vital European art movements of the early 20thC. Although this work is cubist in technique, she did not identify with any particular movement; her painting style is an amalgam of many approaches.

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Levon Dymond @levondymond.bsky.social · 1h

Morning Oaks. October 2025

#oaktree #ThickTrunkTuesday #landscape #trees #nature #Scape #monochrome #blackandwhite #ClassicMono #omsystem #OMsystem #photography

Tree trunk in the morning mist. black and white photo.

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Juju Bee! @fireflyfox5.bsky.social · 2h

ghost dogs {roaming in the mist, under the crescent moon, bonded for eternity}

#31DaysofHalloween #eadtcoastkin

A photo collage of several tree, moon, and landscape photos I took with a medieval etching of two dogs layered in to appear like they are ghosts. The colors are muted. Photos and image editing by me

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A Bennett @atbenne.bsky.social · 1d

#photography #wildlife #birds #nature #wild #travel
Turkestan Shrike, Suffolk, UK
This bird,also known as a Red-tailed Shrike is only the 13th record for the UK. It should be in East Africa by now!
Nikon Z8 + Nikon 600mm f4 VR telephoto lens

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3h

No wraith way, no corpse lane is ever less than ghost-crowded. Yet just as roads to market or the races are thronged on certain days, as we approach Allhallowtide they become congested by spirits. From distant villages to the boneyard gates and lychgate termini a rush of spectres walk. – #CLNolan

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 2h

The elegance, beauty and grace of a black swan.

#BirdOfTheDay #UKWildlife #Birds #LongNecks #Ornithology #MuteSwan #Photography

A black swan glows in the light if the sun. Facing towards the camera with head slightly turned towards the left. Water droplets leave her mouth.

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Zoë’s Studio @zoesstudio.bsky.social · 7h

Day 14 of #inktober - the prompt is trunk.
I’ve done a mini study of tree bark textures.

#inktober2025 #inktober2025trunk #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing #art #treebark #dailysketch #dailydrawing

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 3h

OK, thank you. I take that as a yes. They'll be a small pub event in April next year. Details nearer the time.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4h

Would Hooklanders in London exile like to hear me talk in an East End pub about the origins of the county and its folklore next year?

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 1d

#MythologyMonday
Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most beautiful and storied peaks. Legend says that a night upon its slopes may grant the gift of 'Awen', or divine poetic inspiration. But it comes also with a risk: some who sleep there will wake not as poets, but as madmen!

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 12h

'Inside 17B', Finsbury Park (2021) by Liam Devereux
liamdevereux.co.uk/shop

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 1d

I've got so much stuff to put on the Haunted Generation website. Let's start with an appreciation of beautifully strange 1975 HTV series 'Sky', written for @shindigmagazine.bsky.social to accompany the soundtrack release on @btlabel.bsky.social...
hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/10/13/s...

Screen Time: Sky

Heading to Somerset for your summer holidays? Take inspiration from SKY, a 1975 children’s TV serial riddled with Shindig!-friendly folk horror oddness. As the show’s spooky soundtrack gets a first…

hauntedgeneration.co.uk

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 13h

Gabriël Metsu, a contemporary of Vermeer, depicts a fashionably-dressed man writing a letter with a quill pen, his face and hands highlighted by light streaming in from the open window. A richly decorated Persian rug covers the table (1666, Nat Gallery Ireland)

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Maya Gelfman, "Black Birds" installation, created with yarn #WomensArt

Installation with eighteen flying black birds created with yarn, suspended in the air while attached to a ball of black yarn on the floor, all against a white background

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 22h

Good evening! This week's theme is London from a Window.
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'Window in London Street', Fitzroy Street (1901) by Sir William Orpen

(National Gallery of Ireland)

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 1d

Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22h

Goodnight from the production line at the W&W Biscuit factory at Hook, where all the gossip is about Elsie Bow being outed as a witch in the News of the World. Goodnight from Ged Walms. nursing a headful of terrors after walking through Mantel Woods. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · 1d

Two skeletons balance hourglasses on their heads. Above them, two cherubs sound a great bell. A headstone with symbols of mortality, 1714, at delightful Hinderclay, Suffolk.

Hinderclay: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/hinderclay.htm

#31DaysofGraves 13: Skeleton

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 1d

looking over a bike ride on google maps. The slight eeriness of people gathered in a circle. This is the edge of a cricket pitch, and the low sun is in the south, so I think it's autumn mid day - this year!

Maybe it's it's not people, but I'm reminded of the scientists in Thing from Another World

A screenshot from Google Maps's satellite image. In the corner of a cricket pitch are at least 21 pixels of white, with 21 elongated, human shaped shadows stretching across the grass. It's a stone circle of shadows. There are parked cars nearby. Unseen in this image, but there's a pub just to the right.

BRB - gonna make a fortune writing a fantasy trilogy starting with 'A Stone Circle of Shadows'

A still from the scene in Howard Hawks' 'The Thing from Another World' where the foolish American scientists measure out the buried and frozen alien spacecraft by gathering in a circle.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Ashcourt Necropolis' chipped angels seem to have become bored with the prospect of eternal grief. Their pleading to heaven no longer for the dead, but a release from the English weather. No benedictions, just a slow discharge of resentment for waiting on judgement. – #CLNolan

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 1d

Trees shed in slow striptease. Hedges offer berry buffet. Shadows stretch towards the coming of cold of twilight. Even the quietest lanes parade their phantoms. This is autumn whispering its last summer memories. This is autumn edging towards the season of the dead. – #CLNolan

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 1d

Now autumn is here #wildflowerhour is such a lovely way to spend a Sunday evening! Don’t those beautiful photos lift the spirits! There’s still lots of brave blooms out there but will they still be flowering next Sunday ………….. Happy flower hunting!

VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 2d

October…“When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing.”

Hogweed, hollyhock, campion, creeping thistle, autumn hawk-bit, yarrow, green alkanet, feverfew found today. #WildflowerHour

A collage of eight wildflowers: delicate white umbels of hogweed; bright pink hollyhock blooms; white campion with star-like petals; purple spiky creeping thistle; small yellow autumn hawk-bit; clustered white yarrow heads; vivid blue green alkanet flowers; and daisy-like feverfew with yellow centres.

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