Paul 💙🩵🤍💜🤍🩷💗🌱

View from the window…I notice the snow shoe Hare is getting his winter whites now!

A brown Hare with white paws and ears bounds joyfully.

A hare with white paws and ears bounds happily.

A hare with white paws in mid bound.

Happy hare bounding everywhere. ✨

A pink flower among the green.

Summer everlasting behind the shed. 🌸✨

"Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you."
~ Saint Francis de Sales

Deer in a Monastery Garden
🎨 Franz Marc (1912)

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fungi on deadwood

Ancient Woodland Scene

Collage featuring an illustration by Maginel Wright Enright of fairies tending daisylike flowers with golden centres, beside photographs of a yellow marigold, a buttercup with an insect, and several white daisies with yellow hearts, all glowing with sunlight.

Long ago the fairies played too long catching sunbeams. When night fell, they hid them in their flower cradles and slept. By dawn, the beams had spilled out, turning some flowers gold – the buttercup and the marigold – and leaving a golden heart in all the rest. #FolkloreThursday

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Collage of nine close-up photos of small mushrooms growing in grass and woodland. Each image shows different shapes and colours, including pale brown, grey, yellow, and white caps with varying textures and gill patterns.

An old tale tells that mushrooms are umbrellas, carried by woodland spirits to shelter them from the rain as they go about their nightly tasks. When it is time for them to return to their underground world at dawn, they plant them in the earth for safekeeping. #folklore #nature

A pink flower on a background of green.

Pink still existing..🌸✨

Collection of flowers from my garden in February

In case you struggle with low mood in/are daunted by the winter & long for hellebores & tiny daffs this👇isn't as many weeks away as it seems.
If you love the winter then 👍, this is just a photo of spring flowers that'll help alleviate any anxiety you're facing today & give you a ping of dopamine 🌿

A mountain and a lake

After the Battle of Camlann, King Arthur's final battle, Knight of the Round Table Sir Bedivere cast Excalibur into the waters of Llyn Ogwen, where it was caught by the Lady of the Lake

The mountain behind is Tryfan, said to be Sir Bedivere's final resting-place

In the West, vegetarianism is really so easy these days... there's no excuse. Veganism requires more time and effort admittedly.

🌹🙏💎 ~

The Mind and its Weather by John Aske Previously I had lacked the self-awareness to see a passing mood as ‘internal’ without absorbing into it or being absorbed in it, and saw it, for example, as ‘being depressed’…

Buddhist read: Looking for some Buddhism? Everyday Buddhist: 'The Mind and its Weather', by John Aske wp.me/pFy3u-2IT.

Hoping this finds its way to someone who has need of such words.

Just a moment…🍁✨

Carl Gustav Jung 》𝗡.𝗕.

Water shimmers and flows over an orange red maple leaf.

Simple beauty. 🍁✨

An oak seedling emerging from an acorn

Acorns Dream

A collage of Japanese maples (Acer) in peak autumn colour, with leaves ranging from gold and orange to vivid scarlet and crimson. Close-up shots highlight the finely cut foliage, while wider views show the fiery trees brightening a garden landscape.

“The chestnut trees turned yellow,
The oak like sherry browned,
The fir, the stubborn fellow,
Stayed green the whole year round.
But O the bonny maple
How richly he does shine!
He glows against the sunset
Like ruddy old port wine.”
- Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
#poetry #nature

Five Protections Against Sorrow In Buddhism it is taught that almost everything that happens to us, good or bad, is the result of previous actions — it is our karma…

Buddhist insights: In Buddhism it's taught that most of what happens is result of our previous actions wp.me/pFy3u-QJ ‘Five Protections Against Sorrow’.

Collage of greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea). Left: cluster of white star-shaped flowers among green grass. Top right: close view of a flower with an orange tip butterfly resting on it. Bottom right: two delicate white flowers with unopened buds against soft green.

The #wildflower greater stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) is also known as ‘Jack-in-the-Lantern’, a name associated with the goblin who bears the ignis fatuus or ‘foolish fire’, a ghostly flame said to mislead night travellers across bogs and marshes. #FolkloreSunday #Halloween

Adorable. But is your upper-arm strength carrying your entire body weight? - impressive if so.

For instance, the idea of śūnyatā — emptiness — challenges our conventional ways of thinking. It teaches that all things are empty of inherent, independent existence, but this does not mean they are non-existent.

Goodnignt everyone, take very good care of yourself.

Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind Sensing no change in the changing, Sensing pleasure in suffering, Assuming “self” where there’s no self…

But when in the world of darkness
Buddhas arise to make things bright,
They present this profound teaching
Which brings suffering to an end.
Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind
wp.me/pFy3u-415.

Collage of woody nightshade and honeysuckle. Left: clusters of small purple star-shaped nightshade flowers with yellow centres. Centre: close-up of pink, white, and yellow honeysuckle blooms. Right: mass of honeysuckle flowers against green leaves.

In Lower Germany, honeysuckle, woody nightshade and other twining plants are called “albranke”, the witch-snare. Folklore held these plants aided witches in their escape by tangling pursuers in their coils, thus allowing the witch to slip away safely. #MythologyMonday #Halloween

"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."
~ Henry David Thoreau

The Wooded Lane
🎨 Claude Monet (1876)

A blue jay with wing outstretched hangs upside down from a sunflower head.

Breakfast beauty. ✨

• Mary Oliver •