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Awesome thread!
And all hail to Hodgson, the writer of a 173-page footnote!

Might not be this week 😃

This is EXACTLY the kind of art I love best. Art that suggests. Implies. Lets you participate.

I
Now
Vote,
I
Thus
Elect.

#7SyllableSentence #invite

#acrostic
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Their family always presented a picture of perfect #harmony to the world. Father insisted on it, even though the reality was quite different.

Dale hated the hypocrisy. To his own kids, he said, "It's okay if you disagree with me. Better the cacophony of truth than a pretty tune of lies."

#vss365

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 370,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 940,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,300,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,790,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

There's no loud voice anymore.
You would have thought this promising, but for those whose lives revolve around getting together and sharing a thought, whispers are like lightning. They always stomp or some such afterward, in case you forgot what lightning is all about.
#vss365 #lightning #writemap

Just before harvest,
crop circle draws visitors.
A real investment.
#fastprompt #haiku

#dailyhaikuprompt #moon #quill

a full moon
on the spotlit parchment
black quill ink

waning gibbous moon
a chipmunk scurries
back and forth
#DailyHaikuPrompt

Retro looking film photo of Cape Cornwall from cliffs above. Bright golden, washed out light.

Waves breaking in Porth Ledden. Pale blue sky and green cliffs.

The white painted former mine managers house on cliffs above Cape Cornwall.

Another angle on the house - same washed out blues and intense golden light.

Talking of Cape Cornwall, much as I love it in a storm, the last time we were there was in beautiful April sunshine.

Took some film snaps on my little Olympus Trip and they all came out looking like 1970s postcards...

#completethehaiga 141 @completethehaiga.bsky.social

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your belief in me
just makes things harder
for I've lost belief in myself
I can't be what you see

we were in love
spellbound
that joy belonged
to another person
she's gone now

and you deserve
communication
but I can't transmit
on that frequency anymore
I'm just SOS
on a solitary shore

#vss365

a man in a suit is holding two action figures of loki and thor ALT: a man in a suit is holding two action figures of loki and thor

I'm just not an action man
#7syllablesentence #action

fog along the shore
lighthouse hiding in cold mist
gray skies - perfect day

#poetry #writing #haiku

Precipitation's just rain.

#7SyllableSentence #rain

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#7syllablesentence #amwriting #writingcommunity

The sound of the #rain soothes me.

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a rounded platform in the angle of York city walls.

Pen and watercolour drawing of a rounded platform in the angle of York city walls.

Pen and pencil drawings of a rounded platform in the angle of York city walls.

A reminder on FB that I drew the Bitchdaughter tower on York's Bar Walls OTD, 8th March, 2016.
I sketched the Bitchdaughter Tower on York's Bar Walls, then added some watercolour back in the office from snaps I took. I probably added a few stones too.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#drawing

Hello everyone.

The #7syllablesentence prompt for March 8 is #rain

Thank you, Mollie @msfulofgrace.bsky.social for hosting.

Thank you, Raymond @raymonds-towers.bsky.social for the graphic.

Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence

Thank you for your fabulous post! 🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

spellbound
I search high and low for
a dictionary
#vss365 #SenryuSunday

This is a photo of the windmill in Cley Next the Sea, in Norfolk, England. It is built of red brick, with attractive white cap, sails, three window frames, and a railed balcony that girdles the mill just below mid-height. The sky is a cloudy blue-grey, which contrasts with the sun shining on this pocket of land. Located on a quayside, and on the left of the frame and surrounded by grass, the mill breaks the horizon line that runs through the middle of the image. Beside it, and on the street behind, are historical residential buildings - some with the traditional cobbled, flint rock walls. Tall mature trees can be seen above rooftops in the background. There is a small car park on this quayside–with a handful of cars–beside the mill, and in front of green ivy-covered walls that separate it from the street of houses. This view of the mill is from across the marsh where most of the dried, straw-colored rushes used for thatching roofs, have already been harvested, save for a clump on the left. Like a bad haircut, sun-bleached left-over rushes stick up from–or lay–on the muddy-brown marsh, which takes up the whole lower half of the image. At the far edge of the marsh–just below the mill–we see the top of a dark void indicating the water channel of the River Glaven which separates the marsh from the quayside. Once a busy port, Cley Next the Sea is no longer ‘-Next the Sea’. The small town is now about a mile and a half from the coast. The land having been reclaimed, the vast swaths of salt-water marsh between Cley and the next village of Salthouse, and the sea, are internationally recognized as an important breeding habitat to the resident and visiting wildfowl, and have been protected since 1926.

A #Norfolk #England view for Friday’s #Scape day

#windmill #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #eastcoastkin #Cley #harvest #marshland #NationalWildlifeTrust #wildfowl #wildlifehabitat

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Pencil and watercolour sketch of a railway station and engineering works buildings seen across a car park.

Flashback to 2016 & a view of engine building sheds by York railway station. Early railway engineering works, built in the 1840s.

#ArchitecturalIllistration
#drawing #sketchbook #ArtYear

trees standing naked
grow embarrassed before sun,
budding sheepishly.

#WildWalkPrompt
#budding
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry

spring
coming alive
again

#7syllablesentence

Winter's rest
Recedes
Springtime

#7SyllableSentence #rest

#seasons
#winter #spring

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🧵I find the recent "political" rhetoric about churches being “repurposed” into mosques both misleading and disingenuous. The number of such cases is small, and they have largely involved former Nonconformist chapels already redundant within their denominations. To present this as a widespread

My favorite oak tree in the area. One of many things that will create a glorious spring.

rejuvenated
roaring myself back to life
from timid slumber

#vss365 #timid
#senryusunday
#7syllablesentence #roar

World through the toddler's eyes: awe.

#7SyllableSentence #awe
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Landscape showing a house (front-facing), nestled in trees with a fence, and snowfields in the foreground.

Snowfields
#watercolour #watercolor #landscape #house #snow