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Rachel Darker
@racheldarker.bsky.social
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Inhabitant of Planet Earth, drifting leisurely just off northwestern coast of continental Europe. 🇬🇧

Wistful nature dweller embracing witchy undertones.

#art #photography #haiku #rats #fire #fairies #folklore #infonuggets

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Field mouse on mushroom.

#digitalwatercolour #procreate #art #sketchaday #digitalpainting #animalart #artist #digitalart #bluskyartists #illustration
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grays.art
Gulf Fritillary butterfly
(Dione vanillae)

verse for #ImageAndVerse in response below

#StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #bugsky #native #butterflies #Lepidoptera #insects #bugs #pollinators #macro #photography #macroPhotography
Medium-sized butterfly with a bright orange body and wings that are open, the top of the wings have black markings and three white spots ringed in black along the leading edge.
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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thezenoftrueart.bsky.social
Edward Julius Detmold, "Tulips," Plate 18 from News of Spring and Other Nature Studies by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1917. #flowers #tulips #botanicalart #botanical #illustration #drawing #art #blueskyart #artwork #artmuseum #museum #gallery
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
'Mt. Fuji and Red Torii' - Kawase Hasui, ca. 1930s.
#ToriiTuesday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt
A landscape scene on a rainy day. A red torii and stone lantern stand beside trees with Mount Fuji in the background.
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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wolftwinthomas.bsky.social
moonlit crosswalk —
a raccoon waits
to see my choice
#haiku #poetry
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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johnbcaddell.bsky.social
and you know I'm going to post #waterlilies for #WaterlilyWednesday. these were at the SF Conservatory
🌱

#JBCFlowers #flowers #garden #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #DailyFlower
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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skittlesmom.bsky.social
Leaves on Lake with rain drops.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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mightyathena.bsky.social
i sit quietly -
rain falls on this wooden heart
and softens my edges

breathing deep, I share
the Earth's renewed rejoicing
- a song in a song

paradoxical
hot and cold, light and dark
I centre within

#haiku
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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caterwaulerin.bsky.social
I have fired myself
from the job of living up to other's expectations,
from emotional labour as identity~
baited in with circle hooks on long line
snatch block rocking against aluminum skiff boom
fishing gear set the table
salmon sharks in the water,
safe from our intrusions
having a different meal.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
racheldarker.bsky.social
Pheasant’s Catwalk #haiku / #haiga collaboration with @mightyathena.bsky.social !

So much fun!

#AnimalArtTuesday #Illustration #Haiku #Haiga

#dailyart #art #digitalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

#EastCoastKin #alttext #symbology #folklore #writingcommunity
Image contains Manuka flower and Silver Fern (native to NZ) and one strutting pheasant on the catwalk! In Māori folklore and symbology, the mānuka tree (Leptospermum scoparium) is considered a taonga (treasure) and is a powerful symbol of resilience, healing, and the deep connection between the people and the land (whenua). In Māori cosmology, the tree is associated with Tāne Mahuta, the atua (god) of forests and birds, reinforcing its spiritual significance and mana (prestige). The Silver Fern is a widely recognised symbol of New Zealand, representing national identity, strength, and endurance.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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pauljwillson.bsky.social
Passing scenes in Sutherland
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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po3try.bsky.social
~

for our season 1 finale we’ve gone

😻 13 - experi : mental ❤️‍🔥

#poetry #podcast

#prompt - write something different!

spotify / apple / tiny.cc/po3try

~

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@artbyseranya.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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davidleakenney.bsky.social
This Robin was showing off for my camera!

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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declan78.bsky.social
#FossilFriday here is a Triceratops skeleton on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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catseyelens.bsky.social
It was a Spring surprise coming across this family of swans on the banks of a pond.

#BirdOfTheDay #swans #standing #BirdsOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
For Birds of the Day, a colour photograph of a family of swans, with the floating female pen reflected in the pond and a large male cob standing guard over half a dozen newly hatched cygnets on the shore.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
racheldarker.bsky.social
Field mouse on mushroom.

#digitalwatercolour #procreate #art #sketchaday #digitalpainting #animalart #artist #digitalart #bluskyartists #illustration
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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chesterzoosci.bsky.social
Today's mood: inquisitive

(Pic: Javan green magpie. Status: Critically Endangered. Chester Zoo is part of an international breeding program and supports in-field action to save the species)

🌏🪶
A photo of a Javan green magpie stretching in a strange pose. It is a green, red and black feathered bird.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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blackandwhite95.bsky.social
Rita (8229) and Miro slowly returning to nature at Bluff’s ship graveyard. Sony a7iii, fe24/70(f4), Kase grad filter and Cpl filter.
#photography #boats #shipgraveyard #kasefilters #newzealand #sonycamera #bluffharbour #reflections #christchurchphotographer
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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walktoworkglasgow.bsky.social
Leaf trapped in ice.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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bellewild.bsky.social
Salt Lake City tonight. Breathtaking!
#aurora
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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johnme23.bsky.social
It's #RockInTuesday, with just a sliver of #BlueSky left over from Monday. At Goblin Valley State Park, #Utah.

#rockformation #toadstools #hoodoos #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #erosion #geology
A dome-shaped boulder of reddish sandstone sits atop a short, narrower stem of layered sedimentary rock. To the right and nearer the camera, another capstone with attendant underpinnings stretches off beyond the edge of the frame. The sky has wispy white cloud cover with a slash of deep blue cutting across at an angle.
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
racheldarker.bsky.social
Digital Watercolour Mouse.

#AnimalArtTuesday #DigitalWatercolour #DigitalArt #SketchADay
Mouse and brambles watercolour, mouse tentatively clutches at brambles, chancing a taste.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
A young Crowned Woodnymph #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature
Close-up portrait of an iridescent hummingbird perched on a branch, showing shimmering green, blue, and purple throat and breast against a soft green background.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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angelsaphirayun.bsky.social
Schönen Abend!🍂🌸🍁

#Herbstliebe
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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uhume.bsky.social
the powers that be are an illusion. the true power is in the birdsong and shifting clouds and in the challenges of light and dark. it is a constant turning of desires and of return. the night inverted shows threads woven there, which when pulled leave a space, in which you will find the dream keys.
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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mightyathena.bsky.social
𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐
𝚠𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙾𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚎
𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚎

𝚢𝚎𝚝 & 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 - 𝚠𝚎 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝
𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚢'𝚜 𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝-𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎
𝚜𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚞𝚕𝚕

𝚠𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎, 𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚠
& 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜
𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠

[ᎬᏁᎠ ᎢᎡᎪᏁᏚᎷᏆᏚᏚᏆᎾᏁ]

#DailyHaikuPrompt | rust, sap
#ScifaikuSaturday | #observe
#scifi #haiku
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM