I stayed with friends about half an hour's drive from Chania. Orchids everywhere!!! I'm sure there are experts who could direct you to particularly good areas.
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I stayed with friends about half an hour's drive from Chania. Orchids everywhere!!! I'm sure there are experts who could direct you to particularly good areas.
We're saying hello to Sand Martins, our next #SpringArrivalSpotlight!
Gracing our skies from early March, they nest in colonies in sandy banks & cliff-sides.
Did you know? Their burrows can be up to a metre long!
Spot their distinctive swirling flight & short, forked tail.
I’ve started to add some decoration to my three new items, currently working in the fox brooch … stitching a few dandelions along the “pathway”.
Turned a stone at Aberthaw & came across 2 beautiful limestone-loving Lapidary snails Helicigona lapicida. The Vale of Glamorgan limestone walls are also wonderful for lichens - I'm going to learn some this year with the help of this highly recommended new book @britishlichensociety.org.uk
Pair of Gadwalls (Mareca strepera), male on left, female on right
Pair of gadwalls, male on left, female on right.
#birds #photography
Venice Canal — Original Watercolour Painting
Soft light, old stone walls, and the peaceful rhythm of life along a quiet Venetian canal.
16.1" x 12.2"
#Italy #Venice #VeniceCanal #ItalianLandscape #ItalyArt #Watercolour #Painting #Art #Architecture #PaintingforSale
Early Spring - by American Impressionist painter, Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965)
Jennie Kidd Trout
3/11/1875 — Jennie Kidd Trout qualifies as a medical doctor and becomes her the first licensed female physician in Canada. She was the only woman doctor in Canada until 1880 when Emily Stowe became licensed to practice medicine as well #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #Canadian #MedSky #HistMed #WHM
I’ve been so busy looking for frogspawn and toad spawn in our pond that I almost missed these...
Great Pond Snail eggs, I believe.
Don’t you just love ponds?!
Floral sunshine for a grey day. Love a mini narcissus. 🌱🌼
I know just the thing, Alice. 😊🌹 #TheArchers
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Whiskers Wednesday, and Dennis enjoying his neck being stroked! #cats #whiskerswednesday
A Song Thrush perched on a thin garden branch, its creamy chest marked with bold dark arrow-shaped spots. The bird looks alert, head tilted slightly upward, showing a slender yellow-based bill and a large glossy eye catching the light. Warm brown feathers cover its back and wings, while small red berry stems and green leaves frame the scene. The background is softly blurred green foliage, making the thrush stand out sharply in the sunlight. 🌿🐦
Good morning, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SongBirds any songbird and the alternative is #PerfectlyPerched any bird perched. I’ve went with a Song Thrush. Wishing you all good luck and a great day ahead. #birds #photography #ECK
Mine #WhiskersWednesday good nite to you all. Hope you have sweetest dreams & peaceful sleep. Family sends hugs & extra love 💤💙💤
Toby & a mate looking down from a hill with a dog
Surveying the scene from the slopes of Moel Hebog yesterday, looking down over Beddgelert & the peaks of Eryri/Snowdonia 🤩.
A thoroughly good 9 mile birthday hike, finished off with a pie & pint at a pub 🍻
Crete
Thank you Jo. Breezy here 🙀
Gouache painting of a mossy tree. The background has a few more leafless trees.
Mossy trees 💚 #gouache #sketchbook #art
Crow's nest
Really excited to have found these Ordoviciam trilobites in the Anti-Atlas, Morocco.
One is extremely tiny, but both specimens preserve clear eye detail, which always makes a find special. The small one may be a juvenile calymenid-type trilobite.
#trilobite #fossils #Ordovician
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
Orange cat on bookshelf
Looking for her next read…
(And yes, I need to tidy up the bookshelves…)
#booksky
Ipheion (starflower) just starting to flower on the balcony with Mancunian blue sky and sunshine for #BlueTue #ColorADay
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#ColourADay #flowers #Gardening #Ancoats #sunshine #springtime #EastCoastKin #FlowerReport #DailyFlowers #Manchester #MyBalcony
a white star shaped species tulip flower
Tulipa turkestanica, a botanical tulip, just beginning to flower in my garden right now 🌱
#TulipTuesday #Bloomscrolling
Collared Sunbird (Hedydipna collaris) is a tiny, mainly insectivorous African passerine with a metallic-blue or green back, yellow belly, and short bill. #bwindiImpenetrableforest #Uganda #montaneforests #birdsofafrica #birdsseenin2026 #birds #birdphotography #bird #birdphotography markscheflen.com
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae any bird of the Corvid family.
A Mexican Jay from a trip to the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.
#birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #nikon #EastCoastKin
Baby dragon
New cat. Air biscuits.
Susan B Anthony
The contributions of Susan B. Anthony, an abolitionist and Quaker, are immeasurable. She was an American civil rights leader who fought for the rights of the enslaved African Americans and of women who had no rights. Without her, there would have been no women’s movement.
#ProudBlue #Women’sHistory
