Ana McKellar

The serrated peaks of Patagonia's Mount Cerro Torre, one of nature's outstanding sculptures, softly emerge from a veil of clouds, as they are touched by the early morning light.

#photography #travel #bluesky #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #mountains

Cyclist on a frosty field as the sun rises through trees and mist. The sky changes colour from gold at the sun level up to pale blue above.

Meadow cyclist at sunrise OTD in 2023

The early winter light over snow has created and almost apricot coloured sky. The country Lane is probably in Kent and we see a small farm yard with oast houses

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 6
‘Lane in Winter’
Artist: Rowland Hilder

#Day6

The day builds with mythic light
And the whispered scent of rain.
Six swans leave their echo
Of wing-song on the air.
The bleat of a sheep
Caught tight among the briar.
The golden rain haze
In the west
Draws closer.

#DailyNature #naturewriting #naturepoetry

A Christmas tree made of knitted squares with knitted and crocheted decorations

Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️

We’ve had Black Friday & Cyber Monday, today is #SmallBusinessSaturday.

Maybe if you have Christmas shopping to do or just fancy a treat for yourself maybe consider buying from a small business … makes a real difference to real people 😊

www.wild-indigo.com

😂

Nighttime on Still Waters This is the Narrowboat 'Erica' narrowcasting into the night from somewhere on Britain's canals and waterways. A podcast that gently explores life afloat (and on la…

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Last night, I walked along the sea, finally remembered to open NIGHTTIME ON STILL WATERS, and as I listened a smile settled on my face.

Listening is soothing without being shallow, it’s like meeting thoughts which are old friends and for once come together in a carefree space.

Thank you!

This is not true.

These are the figures for England and Wales (where the 1996 Treasure Act and subsequent amendments apply).

It's a complete mess.

#Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting #Treasure

A photograph of a European Robin that is facing forward showing off his bright orange chest. His head is turned to the right as viewed as he clings on to a thin branch. The background is festive that shows blurry shadows of surrounding fir tree branches and light snow falling.

A #HolidayRobin to brighten up the timelines and to wish you all a good weekend. 📷 🪶

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #Nature

Just a bit of a contrast 😂

Yet another thing I’ve undoubtedly walked past and not seen!

Work in progress on a pencil drawing of old buildings. In the centre is a three-storey building with the upper floors overhanging the lower ones. Between two windows on the centre storey is a carved figure that used to be used to advertise tobacco products.

Slow progress but the Indian sculpture is in place, repaired after a delivery van hit him, a common occurrence in York. The sort of detail that sometimes gets lost in the bigger picture. Pencil is an 0.3mm Pentel GraphGear 1000 + Tombow Mono Zero eraser.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing

How wonderful, the knitting astonishes me, so clever

The bollards are particularly awesome, one for @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

There is great comfort in routine and, with animals, it simply means everyone is as healthy and happy as they can be. If there has to excitement, let it be acknowledgement from Madge, not a Haakon abscess (I dare assume that did heal ok as not mentioned recently?)

Reduction Roadmap Danish science-based carbon reduction targets for the building industry.

See how they do it in denmark:
reductionroadmap.dk

Orangey blue winter sunrise

Colours of winter sunrise

Collectivising Surrey: A Tragedy in One Act The mansion tax isn’t a revolution - but judging by the screaming, you’d think Rachel Reeves had just seized the Home Counties and nationalised the Cotswolds.

I go abroad for a week and return to wall-to-wall melodrama, pearl clutching and fainting sofa flop-downs about a surcharge affecting 1% of homes.

Britain's capacity for uncontrolled panic about nonsense remains totally undefeated.

I missed you, chaos island.

London councils have a ‘sustained reliance’ on private firms as report shows £500m spend Exclusive: Research prompts warning that authorities rely on companies to carry out basic functions

"London’s councils are now structurally dependent on private consultancies for core functions, and that should worry us all. Rebuilding public capability, rather than buying it at a premium, is the only sustainable route to resilient, democratic local government."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A large flat-topped mountain with a steep skirt is reflected perfectly in a small pond which is framed by winter grasses and a touch of frost on the water. The sky is very blue, the landscape place brown.

That mountain again :)

Lómagnúpur, #Iceland Nov 2025

Thank God for Bluesky Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...

Sunrise over still water.

Sunrises may be very late on December mornings this far north, but they certainly have their moments.

On being a Drafts Man It's a pun, not a typo; you can put the knives away. I'm quite embarrassed really, looking at all the drafts in my unpublished folder. It's once again been too long, and I'm astonished to see how man...

Found some time to write a post at last. It's been too long, so don't all rush at once, you'll crash the site*

(*you won't)
therestlessforge.ghost.io/on-being-a-d...

Dipstick worth its weight in gold!

Photo of Hawkesbury Junction in the fading light of a rainy winter day. The Coventry Canal can be glimpsed through the cast-iron footbridge to the left, whilst the Oxford Canal runs from the far end of the basin, past the former lock-keeper's cottage, through a stop lock and under another cast-iron footbridge in the distance. To the right, the warm lights of the Greyhound Inn have been welcoming boaters for nearly two centuries.

Wrangling over tolls between the Oxford and Coventry Canals meant the two originally ran parallel just a few feet apart for nearly a mile before meeting, until this new junction at Hawkesbury eliminated duplication 1803.
#boatlife
#ukcanals #canal #narrowboat
#KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways

Rain drops running down the canopy window.

It is easy to forget
How miraculously wonderful
It is that the most basic
Element for our survival
Falls so freely and abundantly
From our skies
In a carnival of life.

This morning, pulling on
Wet weather gear,
The Earth says
"You belong.
I will take care of you."

#DailyNature #poetry #nature

Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.

Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/

Oh this. I am about to handwrite a letter to HMRC (no printer), because I do not have an hour in their working day to wait on the phone subjected to the ghastly racket they call ‘hold music’ and I call torture, while paying by the minute for the non-privilege. 🤬