Sarah Land 🌱

The skeletal remains of a leaf

A little treasure found today for #MagentaMonday 🌱

The blooms will continue until the world improves

(Pawpaw flowers) #BloomScrolling #NativePlants 🌿

Today we’re making a dead hedge using wood from pruned fruit trees and a downed elder.

Dead wood habitats are extremely important for a whole host of species. We never burn wood or brash or take it off site; it gets turned into dead hedges or log piles.

Sunday Snooze 💤

Scientific Shot of a Peacock mantis shrimp eyes which are the most advanced in the animal world. Photo by Daniel Sasse.

the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.

humans have 3.

we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.

the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.

#addOcean

Blue and white spires of flowers

Deep magenta spires of flowers

These hyacinths are doing a lot of heavy lifting after Alfie got in one of the ponds, gorged on frogspawn and then had screaming shits all over the kitchen floor 🤢 😀🌱

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 285

Bees don’t have ears.

#bees
#nature
#science
#education
#biodiversity
#wildlifev

For anyone who saw him on the last leg and wants to know a bit more about him this was a great episode

Yulia Hanansen ( born 1972 ) is an American mosaic artist known for her multi-layered stained glass technique ~ creating vivid, three-dimensional works that seem to shift with light and perspective.
#Art

There’s a sea. Get in it.

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This is Mycena rosoflava. A species of agaric mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It is a wood-inhabiting mushroom native to New Zealand.

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Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

This is even more enjoyable because she's obviously doing the evil tory thing of going on comedy panel shows to make herself seem likeable 😀

Absolutely loving this classic example of a neurodivergent person making everyone deeply uncomfortable by speaking truth to power 😄

Round white onion flowers in front of orange primulas

If your stored onions are starting to grow shoots and can't be eaten anymore they'll turn into lovely insect friendly flowers if you plant them out 🌱

❤️ sending a cyber hug!

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

Native plants don’t need a big garden.
This shady porch has a tiny woodland in pots: hart’s-tongue fern, polypody, wild garlic, wood pansy, bluebell, lords-and-ladies and more.

Irish woodland species are perfectly happy in containers if you recreate shade and leaf-rich soil.

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

First thing in a morning when the adults resume feeding every youngster wants feeding. I spent a week looking at this image on the contents page of the Radio Times, cursing the BBC for not using one of my images. In my defense they had flipped it left to right and cropped it to a circle so I couldn't see enough of the interior of the nest box to identify it.

Seven young Great Tits in a specially constructed nest box in #Cheshire, England for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIForInteriors and #ColourADay #YellowThu.

The bright yellow gape is to encourage an adult to feed the young.

#EastCoastKin #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #PhotographersOfBluesky

Frilly golden leaves

A columbine flower with white central petals and pink outer ones

When the world gives you so much to dread having something to look forward to helps. Seeing the first columbine leaves and knowing that soon they'll flower keeps me sane!! It's a golden leaved variety not sick 😀🌱 ( the flowers are from a different one with green leaves)

Pets are so weird like it's just this little individual that lives in your house and you can't speak to each other but you're just best friends.

💕🐾🐶

Snippet of the joy here below!

If your school can get to Warwick campus, we'd love to have you. And if your school is in a less-advantaged area, there are also some outreach activities going on during the day.

Do drop us a message to find out more on schooltasking@warwick.ac.uk or register below 🤩

A wooden flask or bottle from the early medieval period found in Leitrim, Ireland and now on display in the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology in Dublin

Leather bottle • Leitrim

This leather bottle or flask was found deep in a bog in Cloonclose, County Leitrim.

From the decoration, it is believed to date to the early medieval period, making the bottle at least a thousand years old.

#Ireland ##SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #EarlyMedieval

Roasted with new potatoes, red onion, chopped up veggie sausage, mushrooms, garlic and piri piri seasoning 😋

photo of a red highland cow sticking her tongue up her nose.

Sometimes a lady just has a nostril situation she needs to address and that's okay.

A little felted shrew smiling on a fungus on a log. They hold a little book with a leaf cover bound with tiny green string

Shrews are known for carrying a notebook with them to record all the small joys and memories from their days.
Shrew said they’d let you have a peek inside theirs tomorrow.