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The Citadel standing guard over the town. The things it has seen...
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#Image 2 from this weekends wander in the wilderness...

#abandoned #decay #window #light #view #eastcoastkin #weekendwalk #andalucia #wandering

📰 #Ramadan in Istanbul, The Globe Republican, USA, June 03, 1909

2026 is the Year of the Horse.

The horse:

Smiling, blissed out baby goat lying in the grass, eyes closed, with a big smile on his face

Touch grass today. It will make you feel like this.

Washing drying in a side street.
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A sea of English Bluebell leaf shoots on our woodland floor

It takes five years for an English Bluebell seed to mature into a bulb & root system capable of producing the first flower

It is five years since we started manually sewing seeds in the areas with no bluebells, so we are expecting an even more impressive display this year 🤗

🔴 Maltese balconies give you the feeling of being on top of the world.

#łovemalta #malta #visitmalta #valletta

A view of King Alfred's Tower from the north side. The bricks are sooooo tiny and yesterday when I stood next to it, it boggled my mind to try to estimate how many there are. Despite my banker-mocking caption, and my near certainty that Henry Hoare was a total fuckpig, I have to confess I am massively glad it exists and do hope it's true that it really does stand on the site where King Alfred won The Battle Of Edington in 878. It was closed yesterday but I climbed to the top in autumn 2018, drunk on my adventures as a new Somerset resident, on a similarly clear day when I was researching my book Ring The Hill and the three county view was spectacular: Dorset to the south, Wiltshire to the east, and Somerset to the north and west.

Aren't rich people amazing? I can imagine one of the labourers who risked their life in the construction of the 49 metre King Alfred's Tower in the 1770s for the banker Henry Hoare asking him "But what is it for?" & Hoare answering "What is it FOR? What it's FOR, my good man, is for me to SHOW OFF."

Yes, you're right. And yet it keeps making us smile.

A hazy and damp start to March, but hopefully we will see some blue sky later.
Just trying to maintain some semblance of normality while the world falls apart around us...
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Yes, facts are important. But so is sanity 😜

Nature won't let us down ♥️

It's terrifying. We have to find moments of joy where we can, and hold them close - thank you for sharing yours on a day when I really could cry over anything at all.

KNOCKING BACK PINTS OF ALE.

This is a great ghost sign on Blythswood Street in Glasgow. It's a throwback to a time when people needed tailor-made gowns, everyone wore hats and fur was acceptable. It's part of an advert for G.S. Nichols at 186 Bath Street.

#glasgow #ghostsign #glasgowghostsigns #glasgowhistory

Switch it off immediately.

Forecast is for a dusty and sandy week ahead so it seems we won't be seeing much in the way of blue skies.
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so my first thought is - this is not a set up pic. we were out on Sunset in Silver Lake after a few dozen, walking for food to keep going and buddy is like - oh shit a drunk poodle in the street!!!!

view from behind of a flock of nine white and grey adult domestic geese, walking on a sidewalk of a a village street

#geese #fowl #poultry #flock #birb #birds #birbs #BirdPhotography #street #StreetPhotography #RuralPhotography #village #VillageLife #RuralLife #animals #AnimalPhotography #photosky #PhonePhotography #photo #MobilePhotography #photography #Phonetography #AltText #NoAI #goose

'physical media' 😆

Last night's beautiful sunset.
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Was tied up with appointments yesterday and didn't get a chance to check the nest. Missed the first egg, and today we have 2 bluebird eggs! We almost always get 5 eggs, so 3 more days should complete the nest.
#birds

A pied peacock fanning its tail, standing centee inside the dark of an open garage door.

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

Always wait for Mom at the stop sign.
#nature
#Alaska
#kenai
#photography

Another nice day, although it's quite a damp start. Hard to believe February is nearly finished.
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Sign. Near an old railway station in Devon. "Great Western Railway NOTICE. It is forbidden for vagrants, beggars, itinerant musicians and females of doubtful reputation to enter these premises." There's what looks like a black drainpipe next to it, but this is actually the station's old 1940s "soda funnel" where country urchins from the area waiting for their fathers to return from war by rail would gather around and collectively suck a shit, early version of orangeade, made from carrots and soil, out of the bottom of it.

FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.

Straight out of a Trollope novel. Who’d call their son ‘Dead hat’?

How can you tell they're beer jars? I just wondered.

An old door that is clearly no longer in use.

Nobody's home.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete