'If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word'

Happy birthday Margaret Atwood! Novelist, essayist, poet, activist, inventor, occasional puppeteer and full time genius - few writers have shaped our imaginations quite like her: waterstones.com/author/marga... 🥳

Cape Spring, South Africa,
September 2007, #photography #flora

National speed limit road

Try explaining to someone outside the UK that this road, shared with walkers, cyclists and horse riders, legally has a 60mph speed limit. Madness, really.

Even I got out of bed early to look at it 😀

Zgornja Radovna, Slovenia, a glorious evening in the Julian Alps, July 2025 #photography

A ray of sunshine.
A Speckled Wood in our porch, waiting to greet me when I got home today. An early appearance in Shropshire, surely. #ukbutterflies #photography

Beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees on the upper edge of a steep-sided valley in the foothill zone of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, Scotland. Pen drawing; 21 x 30 cm.

Another of my tree drawings from the past, for today's #thicktrunktuesday. A Beech (Fagus sylvatica) at the top of a steep valley-side slope in the foothill zone of the Lammermuir Hills, East Lothian, Scotland. Pen drawing; 21 x 30 cm.

Island life.
St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. April 2019.
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Tavira not Tarifa! 🙂Can't work out if you can edit your post.🤔

A pen drawing of The Darnaway Oak, in Moray, northern Scotland. This tree has a trunk circumference exceeding 9 metres and is thought to be at least 700 years old. Drawing size: 21 x 30 cm.

Another of my tree drawings from past years, for #thicktrunktuesday. This is a pen drawing of The Darnaway Oak, in Moray, northern Scotland. This tree has a trunk circumference exceeding 9 metres and is thought to be at least 700 years old. Drawing size: 21 x 30 cm.

Tarifa, Algarve, Portugal, 2017. Blue sky for a grey day. #photography

Sun artwork ☀️ Helios is heading to Old Royal Naval College, London. Visit for some winter Sun & explore Sunspots, spicules and the origins of solar flares…https://ornc.org/whats-on/helios/ #heliosartwork

Bird Nests,Ghana, 16.01.2012. #photography

Oh, how lovely to see them both so beautifully drawn.

Butterfly sitting on leaf with closed wings. White wings with yellow and black bands along the edge of the wings.

So the Delia group of butterflies of Australia are a real gem! Here is the first seen on our trip - the Yellow-banded Jezebel...🦋🦋 #AusInverts #WildOz #Insects #Butterflies #BugSky #ArtAdventCalendar

Proboscis crossing. March 2014
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Tesco, Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall. April 2019 #photography

This is not the highly-magnified antennae of some exotic insect, nor is it a fancy toilet brush ~ it’s the magnificent skeleton of a sting ray

Scrooge Rage A grave situation in Shrewsbury

Scrooge Rage: A grave situation in Shrewsbury

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Me too! I'd sign up for that 😀

Bexhill (De La War) Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, June 2006 #photography

Blue sky for Bluesky. Algarve, Portugal, Spring 2017. #photography

Thanks for the repost Claire. I see you're a fellow Shropshire resident. Like you I adored Marrakech, it exceeded expectations.

Yes, I've had this problem. Totally disheartening. So now I grow them over the Summer and pick them small.

I'm on the same page. Couldn't agree more. I only post my own pics and I'm picky about who I follow. I don't want to have to start wading through the crap to find the good stuff again.

You can sense the slickness of the wet street in this 1929 woodblock print ‘Flower Street after Night Rain’ (Yoshida Hiroshi), then warm up in the cosiness of ‘Noodle Restaurant on A Rainy Night’ (Tomikichiro Tokuriki)

Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech, April 2014. #photography

Dylan Thomas's writing shed,Laugharne, 2021. #photography

Woman atop sculpture of eagle's head projecting out from skyscraper, with city far below

Margaret Bourke-White, intrepid photojournalist for Life magazine, seen here setting up her camera on a metal eagle sculpture on the 61st story of Chrysler Building, NY (1934) ~ photographed by Oscar Graubner from a less precarious perch!

Christmas shop, York, 2023.
I don't think it's too soon 😀
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