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Toward the lone tree
through rising mist
i walk a path
i never chose

seeking something
to #soothe
the quiet ache
of moments
that slipped away

yet still whisper
in the way
i walk.

#vss365 #poetry #darkpoetry
#blueskypoets #skypoets #bravewrite

My photo shows the left side profile of a head of a cave lion skilfully carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian culture). Carved details include muzzle, nose, eye, raised ears, and cross-hatching on the neck to indicate a mane. The ivory is a light creamy brown in colour with a surface sheen, and darker patches caused by time spent buried in the ground. It is displayed against a dark background. The head measures 2.95 cm in length x 2.11 cm in height. On display Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart.

Wonderful Ice Age art!

Some 40,000 years ago, this tiny head of a cave lion was skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory. It is one of the oldest known works of figurative art!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

A monochrome photograph of three silver birch trees standing close together in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, their tall, pale trunks rising vertically and slightly overlapping. The scene appears soft and blurred rather than sharply defined, so the trees look gently stretched and flowing, as if their shapes are drifting upward. Fine details like bark texture and branches are reduced, leaving smooth, light-toned trunks against a darker, indistinct background, which makes the trees feel more like graceful forms than solid objects.

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Silver birch trees stand in quiet rhythm in Princes Street Gardens, their pale trunks creating a subtle abstract moment in the heart of Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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#photography #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #ICM #Edinburgh #AbstractNature #wallart

the novel takes
on a body
then learns
to dress

taking on a #soul
poetry remains
naked

#vss365 #poetry #MyThoughts #blueskypoets

Three tea lights in clear glass holders - 2 in cut glass, 1 in one of those IKEA jobbies

Warwickshire weather lore for this day:
If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight.
If Candlemas Day be wind and rain,
Winter is gone and won’t come again.
#CandlemasDay

CANDLEMAS DAY c. 1901
Marianne Stokes (1855-1927)
My photo
Stokes creates a modern devotional image of a woman in prayer.
The image explores the nature of Catholicism. The Modern Pre-Raphaelites were fascinated with its ceremonies and rituals which used objects as symbols to express complex ideas.

view of a window washer taken from inside the house. he is washing the window, leaving soapy suds smeared across the glass, a buket appears bo be on the inside sill.

Norman Lerner, 1957

Rare fungus spotted for first time in 50 years Mushroom hunters on the Isle of Man are left marveling at the rediscovery of Cobalt Crust fungus.

BBC News - Rare fungus spotted for first time in 50 years - BBC News
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Peter Dinklage reading Amanda Gorman's poem about Renee Good, a fellow poet.

A group of men in masks with a pole topped by a carved rooster.

An Acadian tradition for La Chandeleur (Candlemas) was for young men to travel through their village bearing a pole with a carved rooster on top, collecting donations for the poor. The photo below shows the revived custom on Prince Edward Island in the early 1930s. #Folklore

📷 Margaret Richard/CBC

Gorse branch covered in moss and lichen with witch's butter fungus

Witch's butter on gorse #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Front section of deer skull with the antlers still attached.

Roe deer antler mask from prehistoric Eilsleben, Germany

Despite being a Neolithic site, the mask is probably Mesolithic in origin, indicating contact and exchange between hunter-gatherers and the first farmers in central Europe #MesolithicMonday

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🏺 #Archaeology

A sailing boat sales on a calm sea at dusk. The sunset reflects in the water with an orangey glow and mountains are dark in the background.

Today is Candlemas - which is a beautiful name. A chance to celebrate 'the return of light'

Artist: Roger Hall

Sheep in Ebbw Vale satirising Damien Hirst

Good morning from the Welsh Marches. Snowdrops looking good.

Graffitischrift auf weiß gestrichener Wand: "The Planet doesn't need more 'successful' people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers & and lovers of all kinds."

Moin. Wünsche einen guten Start in die neue Woche.

Hazel catkins, periwinkle, petty spurge, cherry blossom (sepals back) shepherd's purse, common chickweed, dandelion, willow catkins, primrose, common daisy, lesser celendine, snowdrops and butterbur

#TheWinter10 (well 12 actually!) for #WildflowerHour from #Lancashire this week, details in alt text, biggest surprises butterbur by the river and a cherry plum blossom(sepals folded back) @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN

What the world needs now
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#Photography
#Nature
#Love

Thank you, Jen x

Tawny owls are usually heard long before they’re seen.
This was taken when I had the opportunity to see one up close.
Photographed in a controlled setting.

#tawnyowl #birds #owlphotography #britishbirds #wildlifephotography

Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents' dementia | Jo Glanville It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville

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three candles are lit in front of a cross made of straw Alt: three candles are lit in front of a cross made of straw - St Brigid's Cross - the Imbolc

Imbolc blessings to you all ......

Illustration for February: woman in green and black gardening, snowdrops, a ladder behind her.

Wishing all a merry Février and blessings for Imbolc.
🖼️ Grasset

Photo of what seems to be a tree within a tree within a tree within a tree within.... You'd like to sit under it to collect yourself but are afraid of the void beneath

Loving this creative storytelling. Has anyone else artistically recreated one of the places we care for?

Evening

For #StandingStoneSunday on St Bride's/Brigid's day, here is the wonderfully twisted (and named) Poit Na H-i stone on Mull, emerging from the ground like a giant granite claw. Happy Imbolc all, spring starts here though it may not yet look like it!

A two metre high granite standing stone standing in a graveyard with houses and bluesky behind. The figure is shouldered with a rounded head, has a necklace and two breasts, one damaged

The Castel Statue Menhir, Guernsey.
An Early Bronze Age female figure of power: spiritual, temporal or both.
Raised on the highest point of the island (I think), slighted and buried at some point in the past.
#StandingStoneSunday
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Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Snowdrop, 1777

The Snowdrop is the first flower to bloom, symbolising the reawakening of the earth after winter's chill #imbolc

February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you might be lucky enough to see some this month 🤞

Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀

Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?