Alison

A screenshot of Bluesky showing @marshtit's exclamation of ORANGE-TIP! showing above my exclamation of PEACOCK! Like an exciting game of butterfly bingo.

Thas defuntly a butterfly day, entut. 🙌

31.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I did write alt text on this but it's disappeared. So:
A Peacock butterfly gently flaps its wings while basking on the warm, sunlit, pea shingle in my garden. Then it flutters away.

31.03.2025 13:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PEACOCK!

31.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

26.11.2024 13:32 — 👍 30609    🔁 4796    💬 424    📌 272

Photo of a black bird with red and gold feathers on its wing, perched on a twig to the right facing forwards and slightly left, in the act of singing with beak open and with warm breath visible from its mouth creating golden smoke rings in the frosty morning light against a dark greenish grey backdrop

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #womensart

02.01.2025 07:31 — 👍 423    🔁 75    💬 0    📌 7

Monochrome print of a white flower on a stem with blossom bowed down, the stem grows through a leaf on the ground.

Snowdrop, 1936, wood engraving by Gertrude Hermes #womensart
The snowdrop is a messenger of the seasons, the darkest moments of winter have passed, there are happenings of life in the roots beneath the earth; spring will soon come. A message of hope. #January1st #NewYear

01.01.2025 12:47 — 👍 192    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 3

Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2025! ♥️

01.01.2025 12:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3) This cutie trying to steal my dinner (or find spiders or impress its reflection or whatever).

01.01.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

b) The first murmeration I've ever FELT.

(If you're able to hear - sound way up for this one ❤️)

01.01.2025 12:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Intense green, purple and pink colours of the aurora hang curtain-like in the sky over almost-silhouetted sand dunes.

Apart from date days with my husband and seeing my children thrive now they're out of high school, my favourite moments of 2024 were amazing natural events:

1) Aurora over the beach

01.01.2025 12:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is HUGE! 🙌 I had to have surgery to find out I had it.

30.12.2024 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0