Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma

Thanks Richard. The heron is sometimes elusive haha. Great to know that the duck family is boisterous- lovely word! 😊

The best season for the oaks and the sycamore. School of English, Leeds

Richard Jefferies is loved. No time to cover Rachel Carson. Decided to discuss it after Friday’s lecture. Some interesting ideas about Hopkins. Good to see some new faces. Devoted.

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Late afternoon, a heron was tickling its face with one foot. The other foot was standing on the roof of its man-made nest.

The trees are turning golden yellow, brown, orange, and red.

Roger Stevens Caffe Nero, Leeds. A cafe with a pond-side view. A heron standing on the roof of its wooden man-made nest, with an autumnal colourful background of trees. The sky was blue. ⛅️

Another angle to admire the University of Leeds heron. #heron

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Outside the school of English, Uni of Leeds. A good spot to admire the full moon.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Every 15th August in the lunar calendar is special.

Found it yesterday in Waterstones. Heard of the book from the publisher’s skeet. Love the cover: ‘To Walshaw Dean’ by Angie Rogers. Many good proses and poems inside. A wonderful project and anthology! Need this more!

From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands

From Nature’s Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons.

Sunday #morningread
Wooper swans!

Thank you 💚

A painting of a cool looking water bird. Possibly a crake of some kind. Mainly orange.

End of a long day travelling from Leeds to Graz. Highlights were a taxi driver telling me my German is good (it’s awful) and this picture in my hotel room (ID?) Looking forward to discussing cultural climate models tomorrow. As usual, I’ll be banging on about ecological and existential angst.

Still lots for #wildflowerhour on the dunes: Harebell, Lady's-bedstraw, Pignut, Carline Thistle, Common Milkwort & sumptuous scarlet Waxcaps. More modestly: hairy-white leaves of Mouse-ear Hawkweed, wild thyme #seedheads, kidney vetch leaves and gorgeous goldy-green mosses. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A swan was swimming towards a heron on River Calder.

Good to see the view by a cafe’s window.

Four adorable shaggy manes in the sunlight

Pumpkin Festival in Farmer Copleys.

Visited The Hepworth Wakefield and Farmer Copleys today after a stormy Saturday. Spotted red kite, buzzard, heron, swan, and cormorant. Met a new fungus: shaggy mane (ink cap). Good!

Wow! Thanks you Melanie! 💚

Buch "Der Mensch und seine Symbole" Am Cover ein Mandala in Orange- und Grüntönen

my companion today #booksky #slowsunday #soulfood

Waterstones Leeds, Nature Writing’s shelf

Souls love to improve, evolve, learn and read
Found Annie Dillard’s books interesting

Have tried very hard to unblock my solar plexus chakra this spring: fell in love with those food that I had nearly never touched before (broccoli, banana, pineapple, ice-cream, grape…). Now, it’s time to go back to the top and recover the crown energy.

Of course we will have a fruitful autumn! #soullife

From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.

Saturday #morningread
#EdwardThomas

Poor bit of video of a beautiful Kestrel on Cornish Coast this afternoon. 🪶

Sundial with maple leaf

For some, autumn comes early, stays late…
Where do they come from? The dust.
Where do they go? The grave…
What sees from their eye?
The snake.
What hears with their ear?
The abyss between the stars.
Such are the autumn people. Beware of them. 🍂

Something Wicked this Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
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Paul Nash loved those clumps. If you don’t follow @hedleythorne.bsky.social you really should.
Yes, you should.

From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed, Jane McMorland Hunter

Friday #morningread
Take care and keep warm!

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The Life of Violet Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first timeA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a...

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YouTube video by The On Being Project “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

I am now posting here on behalf of Poets for the Planet - please follow! #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky #naturewriting

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Country diary: Just how low can a stone circle go? | Sara Hudston Withypool, Somerset: This is a landscape where things can lie hidden – not least a bronze-age structure that is more trip hazard than landmark

A ground-hugging monument from the Bronze Age in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston.

#naturewriting #countrydiary

One of the benefits of studying wader migration is that you learn how interconnected places are.
The world seems smaller and country borders seem trivial.
Black-tailed Godwit blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology