Artfulsplodga

Good morning Blue Skiers! It’s Monday so have a marvellous Monday.. Be kind to everyone, especially yourself, and know that in spite of the (some) ‘news’ most of the time life is ok really. All is Well. 💛✨

Even Neanderthals cared for their sick and injured.. Even they had compassion for the disabled. Our society is hideous. Every ‘man’ (white one) for himself. Suck the money and life out of everyone just to benefit the super rich. It’s collapsing and it’s inevitable unless we the people stop it.

44 pairs of glasses picked up off the beach.. How many more? #art #beachclean #plastic #saveourplanet

This is Trebah Garden in Cornwall. The crocuses are out! Spring is on the way in this magical microclimate. This is a Cornish subtropical paradise, full of tree ferns, monkey puzzles, glorious camellias and so much more.. #garden #microclimate #cornwall

Trying to make something meaningful out of trash. Here is a picture I’ve made out of pieces of plastic that have washed up on our Cornish beaches this past week. Lost from a shipping container in 2019 they are everywhere. #plastic #art #beachclean #plasticpollution #environment #ocean #sea

Are you a painter? Why do you paint? Some paint because they can’t stop. Others because it’s how they earn a living. Others because it makes them feel alive. I’m a manic painter - I’m either all in, or all out. I have no style - just a touch of madness #art #paint #blueskyart #blue #abstract

As our civilisation continues to decay nothing makes much sense. What and who we thought were trustworthy no longer is. Now we have to triple check to try to gauge the truth - and it’s only going to get weirder. How do we navigate this? Go crazy too? Give up? Or keep going till the last breath.. 🌎

Looking through my Mum’s old photo album.. Here she is with her best friend Edna. My Mum’s smoking the pipe and looks like she’s having fun. I guess this was before she married my Dad..
#oldphotos
#smoking
#fun
#free
#friends

Just around the corner Mother Nature is humming her Springtime song. Today these crocuses were singing sweetly by the side of the path - standing tall and so beautiful in their fragile magnificence - reminding us NEVER to give up! 🌷
#flowerpower
#crocus
#springtime

As the Earth heats up, these methane bubbles get released from their icy prison and go out into the atmosphere.. As methane is an excellent greenhouse gas (CO2 eat your heart out), it helps heat the Earth a little bit more. Oh dear, oh dear.. I think I prefer seeing methane like this.. 🫧

When I saw this out the corner of my eye, I thought it was a dog’s ball.. But I believe it’s a stinky old Stinkhorn. Never seen one before in my whole life! #stinkhorn
#fungi
#mycelium
#fungifriends
#fungilove
#mushroom

That’s hilarious! 😁

How feckin’ BEAUTIFUL is this! Lichen and ‘shrooms hanging out together on an old tree.. God I love our natural world SO much! Please, please, please can we save it!?
#fungi
#fungilove
#fungifriends
#lichen
#trees
#ecosystems

Mine too.. my family, my confidents, my teachers and my therapists! #treelove #trees

Who lives here? The perfect country residence for a fairie family, or an ideal home for a gnome. Keys in the door.. if you can find it. 🚪
#fungi
#fungifriends
#fungilove
#mushrooms

This is me today.. find me a shell someone 🐚 🐙

Don’t we look delicious! 🍄‍🟫
These do look like little Scottish pancakes - so yummy with some honey 🍯
I wonder what they’re thinking.. 🤔
#fungi
#fungifriends
#mushrooms
#woodlands

I fell out with my favourite mushroom yesterday and now I’m sad 😔 I had to have a conversation with an ogre and I lost my centre. Sometimes difficult days turn us defensive and then we say dumb things to those we love.
And I love my favourite mushroom very much. 💜
#mentalhealth
#forgiveness

Putting off doing any new painting by scrolling old pictures of my friends.. Here’s Malcolm leaning on the bar at our local..
#fungi
#fungifriends
#fungimagic
#friends

D’you know what? Back in the day, there used to be a tv ad that said “only Smarties have the answer..” Well I think only mushrooms have the answer - we just need to ask the question. 🍄
#fungi
#fungilove
#fungifriends
#enlightenment
#consciousness

I try to keep my feet on the ground and keep moving forward. I try to tell my grandkids to do their studies and I smile at their hopes for their future. But Jesus Christ.. I really want to wail like a banshee and scream with grief.. What the fuck are these ‘leaders’ doing?

I beginning to think we really are screwed. The dominoes are starting to fall and nobody seems to be noticing.
We can’t this life back once we’ve tipped over the cliff. That’ll be it - for our kids and their kids. This isn’t a political game anymore. It’s survival.

I’m just being cool.. hanging out in the woods.. just being marvellous mushroom me 🍄 not giving a shit.. just doing my thing ✌️
#fungi
#mushrooms
#fungilove
#fungifriends

Bravely peeping out on another stormy day.. 🍄Let’s all stick together and we’ll be fine!’ #fungi #fungilove
#mushroom
#fungifriends

Unkindness and greed are riding a wave right now. Thatcher’s hostile environment is alive and well in 2024 and destroying our peace and our place. It feels like the end of times.. but it’s not quite, because we’re still here. We must cherish what we have. Keep being kind. #lovewins

In these days of such overt unkindness and greed, I think in order to keep some kind of sanity we need to keep things simple and local. Study what’s close by, cherish it, share it, celebrate it. Love is everywhere - we just need to be open enough to see it. #fungi #love #justbekind #nature

It’s tragic.

Don’t you just LOVE a Fly Agaric chilling in the Ivy? 🍄
They come and they go and you have to strike it lucky to catch them.. Where will they show themselves next?
#fungi
#mushrooms
#nature

Here they come! Blink and you miss them.. 🍄‍🟫
#fungi
#mushrooms
#friends

Hello cheeky! Look who popped up to say ‘hello!’ I love fungi SO much, I’m sure I’m more mushroom than human.. 🍄
#fungi
#mushrooms
#fungifriends