Barbara J Bone

A tiny, trumpet-tower shaped sea green lichen community pokes out of a dark green tuft of moss surrounded by rich, dark brown mulch and deep red, fallen burning bush leaves - all shining in the early morning sun.

The first iNaturalist suggestion for this adorable tuft is trumpet lichen. #FungiFriday #Lichen #FungiFriends #Fungi #Macro #Nature #Photography #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepLooking #Don’tGiveUp

Colourful but simple.

Sometimes all you need to do is go out on the back porch to see some wonderful fall colors. The trees in the neighborhood are at peak color right now.

Sony RX10m4, 600mm (equivalent).

#landscape 📷 #aspen #fallfoliage

Farage is a dodgy salesman, stressing immigration but really selling you hardship and oppression
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The image includes the quotation below on a white background with a picture of Thomas Merton on a light blue background (an older man in monk's clothing): For the way to God lies through deep darkness in which all knowledge and all created wisdom and all pleasure and prudence and all human hope and human joy are defeated and annulled by the overwhelming purity of the light and the presence of God. Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation

For the way to God lies through deep darkness in which all knowledge and all created wisdom and all pleasure and prudence and all human hope and human joy are defeated and annulled by the overwhelming purity of the light and the presence of God.

Thomas Merton – New Seeds of Contemplation

Yes, it’s not forgotten.

Robert Peston, "OBR say productivity downgrade will add £20 billion to Rachel Reeve's budget black hole"

"That is because of 14 years of low productivity while you were in power"

"So this is your, Conservative, black hole, isn't it?"

Kemi Badenoch, "No it isn't`'

Students paying much more for uni fees.

Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular experience of God and each must find the way to be true to it. When words are strange o... https://advicesandqueries.org/2025/10/27/do-you-respect-that-of.html

Repost widely please. Asylum seekers, whose voices are absent from the 'debate'

Australia is filled with Ukrainians. I am aunt to three adults, all living in Australia. Two of them have a mother born in Ukraine. So Ukraine is personal to me, and to many Australians.

Photograph of a wetland pond with morning light breaking through dark clouds to illuminate swaths of the dried, golden grass around the water. Trees beyond are dressed in various autumn shades of red, orange, and yellow mixed with some remaining green. Numerous white seagulls scatter across the scene, in both the water and the air.

Cool light on this scene earlier this week after a heavy rainstorm moved through.
#Autumn #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography

🤔 Our leaders claim there isn’t enough money to feed the hungry or provide health care to all.

Yet billions of continue to flow to weapons and war.

That imbalance is a moral crisis … and one we can change.

#CofEPeeps

Black text on a white background It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them when a church that they can see doesn’t seem to even like them.

#ToPray✝️

It’s hard to convince people that a God they can’t see loves them when a church that they can see doesn’t seem to even like them.

I've thought a LOT recovering from 11 surgeries, Lupus flares, 2 bouts of cancer & other chronic conditions. If you spent time in an ICU you know it's isolating; you're tied to a bed by lines & leads. It changes you as a person. I want to live & will continue to fight for me & YOU. NEVER GIVE UP! 🙏💜

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

Mexico has told the USA that it will not stop supplying Cuba with oil after Trump demanded it.

¡Viva México!

Stand up to Fascists, don't lie down for them.

Keir Starmer: "Today we remember the 144 lives - including 116 children - lost in the Aberfan disaster 59 years ago.

My thoughts are with the families, survivors and community who continue to feel the effects of this terrible tragedy."

‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant Cloud computing disruption highlights risk of deepening ties despite warnings from UK’s own regulators, including the Treasury

‘Starmer was equally effusive, gushing: “This deal shows that our plan for change is working –bringing in investment, driving growth, and putting more money in people’s pockets.” share.google/ybWKoz3xOe9H...

Starmer is a disaster as PM l.

Coffee’s brewing. Bring ideas.

#5amwritersclub #photography

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree.”
- Emily Brontë

#autumn #nature #trees
#photography

Wonderful colours

White text on a black background My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life. (Pope Francis)

#ToPray✝️

My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.
(Pope Francis)

Lab own goals: winter fuel payments, 2 child benefit cap, Gaza and now trying to reverse the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. All completely unavoidable. On Gaza and the football fans is Starmer’s wife calling the tune?

Is there going to be an urgent question from the Tories or a govt/John Mann statement in parliament today?

Are talking heads on the BBC, #GMB & LBC going to apologise for calling West Midlands police, the local councillors & MP "antisemitic"?

Or will they all pretend it never happened?

#r4today

How the cracks are beginning to show in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Reform UK appears to have an impregnable lead in the polls, but political editor David Maddox highlights how the cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacu...

How the cracks are beginning to show in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacuum

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Tel Aviv football derby cancelled after 'violent riots', as club describes 'brutal police violence' Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 13 civilians and three police officers. But Hapoel Tel Aviv football club has claimed there was "brutal police violen...

Will Kier Starmer now tell us that the Tel Aviv police are antisemetic in his desperate attempt to get Israeli football hooligans into Birmingham?

Thank you.