Fevvers

Neil and Nelly the Nuthatches #BirdOfTheDay #TwoOfAKind #EastCoastKin #ukbirds

Cute characters depicting A Christmas Carol. Made from wine corks, fabric and felt. Scrooge is also made from pink wool and felt and is standing next to Jacob Marley (who looks like a cute ghost wrapped in a sheet). The other main ghosts are right in the frame. There are fairy lights above them, the background is bamboo with a wooden terrace house.

My Christmas Carol scene (made from cava corks - I knew there was a reason I like fizzy wine!). #cutecrafting #Christmas #upcycled #re-used #AChristmasCarol #Scrooge

I’m always amazed and cheered by how much wonderful creativity there is in the world. This is just lovely. ☺️

An elderly yellow Labrador dog laying on a brown carpet. She is facing slightly off camera and has little twinkle Christmas lights wrapped lightly around her body.

This lovely little old lady is seeing her 14th Christmas this year. She’s best friend to my partner’s 92 yr old dad and came to him 6 years ago as a rescue. Sweetest dog ever. #adoptadog #rescuedog #christmaslights

This is so funny! It looks like a Nutcracker Prince without his uniform on.

Have you ever seen a #ghost? I haven't. And I have tried!! Visited haunted houses, castles, battlefields...But I meet so many people who have had experiences with the supernatural. What's yours?
#ghost #ghoststory

Rotbraunes Eichhörnchen steht auf den Hinterläufen auf einer Wiese, ausgerichtet zur linken Bildseite. Die Vorderläufe sind nach vorn gestellt, die Pfoten hängen nach unten. Der Schwanz liegt kreisförmig auf der Wiese. Das Eichhörnchen trägt lange dunkle Ohrpinsel, das Fell leuchtet in der Sonne.

Erst mal den Überblick verschaffen.
#squirrel

Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

Colorful glass bowl with thin, vertical, multicolored bands curving around the interior and exterior, creating a marbled, striped pattern in greens, blues, purples, browns, yellows, and white, shown on a plain gray background with a soft shadow underneath.

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me.

This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold.
Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD.

Timeless beauty!

📷 Corning Museums of Glass

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I’m in a tinwork cycle so no new paintings for awhile.

I've been receiving so many messages from people here having their own "MELIA" in their home. Many looking like her too. I can't thank you enough for sharing your story. Many think she's a forgotten soul. I know there's someone out there for her ❤️

516.785.5220
Adoption@hempsteadny.gov

The underside of a large moth seen through a window. The background is dark and the month is pale brown. It is at the top of the image and covers half the framing.

Here’s a #moth seen through the window one evening a couple months ago. #mothmonday

Photonof a glass transparent box with the engraving of a white figure, head and shoulders facing right, surrounded by a cloud of golden butterflies

RIP Nancy Sutcliffe (1957-2025), glass engraver based in the UK who created exceptional and influential work such as 'Daydreamer' #WomensArt

Thank you so much! Wonderful name. Okay I see a day of research ahead of me.

Thank you ☺️.

Very cool!

Talking about the UK’s bounty of graveyard waxcaps, here are a group of Hygrocybe conica, Blackening Waxcaps or commonly known as Witches Hat mushroom, all lined up like the Three Amigos. #fungi

The nuthatch is by far my favourite bird (and there are so many to choose from!). This shot is wonderful! I’m so pleased to have found your work. 😊.

A close-up of a Eurasian Nuthatch perched on a pebble-covered ground. The bird is slightly puffed up, showing its soft, dense winter plumage. Its head is tilted upward, revealing a black eye stripe and a pointed beak. 小石が散らばる地面にとまったゴジュウカラのクローズアップ。鳥はふっくらと羽毛を立てており、冬の密な羽毛の質感がよくわかる。頭を少し上げ、黒い過眼線と尖った嘴が見えている。

Round and feathered, they carry warmth where the cold forgets 😊🪶
本日はよくばり盛り盛りタグ祭りにします‼️ #モフ曜日 #ふくふく鳥選手権 #ムチムチの鳥をミチミチに収める さあ、どっからでもかかってきなさい😎
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #EurasianNuthatch #ゴジュウカラ #birds #野鳥

A Common Kingfisher perched on a bare branch. Its back and wings shimmer in blue and turquoise, while its chest and underbelly are a rich orange-brown. The bird faces slightly left, with its long, pointed beak angled forward. The background is softly blurred in grayish-blue tones, highlighting the bird’s vivid plumage. 枝にとまるカワセミ。背と翼は青とターコイズに輝き、胸と腹部は濃いオレンジ色。鳥はやや左向きで、まっすぐ尖ったくちばしを前方に向けている。背景は灰青色にぼんやりとぼけており、カワセミの鮮やかな羽色が際立っている。

After two months without a proper shot, I finally photographed a Common Kingfisher! 😊 I’d spotted it here and there, but it never stayed. 🪶
今日は少しだけゆっくり撮らせてくれました♪😊ついにオレもこのタグを使える日がっ‼️ #スイ曜日 #翠曜日
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #CommonKingfisher #カワセミ #birds #野鳥

A large brown and white raptor perched on a tree branch against a pale blue sky. The feathers on his head are standing straight up and the bird is looking directly into the camera, giving him an indignant expression.

I don't think this Osprey appreciated me taking his picture when he was having a bad hair day! Or maybe he was just grumpy because he'd dived for a fish and come up empty - and wet.
#Birds #Raptor #Osprey #BirdOfTheDay #LookingAtYou

Opening the kiln is always a little nerve wracking but, if I do say so myself, the latest batch of replica, Nene Valley, barbotine decorated, Roman colour coated Hunt Cups, have come out looking rather splendid! Get them before they sell out. #Archaeology🏺https://share.google/VBg75ubdqserv59ph

I’ve never heard of mushrooms that do this! I write ghost 👻 stories and now I need to write about these fiendish fungi! Do you have any idea what they’re called?

This is a question #moss Bluesky friends: does anyone know of a good pack of flashcards for identifying/learning names of mosses in the UK? Something small to fit in a pocket?

A couple of mossy chitons (Mopalia muscosa) on a sandy bottom.

#marinelife

#Nature #Photography #Moss

A cascade of mossy tufts on an old cement planter has collapsed into a brown sludge avalanche, with a rim of misty looking white mycelium encroaching into the healthy moss mat. Along the edge of the brown patch, and seeming to peek up at the vibrant surviving moss, a beautiful line of teeny, rubbery orange mushrooms forms a fairy ring. They are slick and glossy from the rain. The mycelium is so finely spun that I thought it was a mold attacking the moss, until all the dead patches I'd noticed started to mushroom simultaneously in the past 3 weeks. This is on Southern Vancouver Island, if you're joining me on the ID quest. I can't find any mention of moss-eating fungus on the SVIMS website.

There's a fungus at work that is attacking the vibrant thick moss mats that have grown on all the old cement. Suddenly in the past week the sad dead patches have all made charming orange mushrooms around their edges! A mycelial cloud's siver lining, so to speak haha.
#fungifriends #bryophytes #fungi

For today’s #BirdoftheDay #movement theme I have a sparrow hawk that a minute earlier was patiently waiting on top of the bird table. Taken through glass from a bedroom window with a phone (don’t judge me 😜).

A heart-shaped rock covered with moss.

Hearts are everywhere if you look hard enough ❤️

#HeartsAreEverywhere #ISeeHearts #ISeeHeartShapes #HeartShapes #HeartsInNature #HeartShapesInNature

見張りは任せろ！

#スズメ

I love how such a familiar bird can look so spectacular. Beautiful photo!