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black text on white background that reads "The Puffins Wear My Words"

an oil painting of three fulmars at cliff's edge

black text on white background that reads "A young mink has noticed people's reverence and affection towards the puffin."

"The Puffins Wear My Words" is available to read on sramdobhran.foundation. The story as a text installation painted with pigment made from Devil's-bit Scabious, and its three oil paintings are on view through 22 November this year at TINA Gallery, London. For more info - tinaofficial.co.uk

black text against white background in Scottish Gaelic reads "Tha Na Buthaidean a’ Cur M’ Fhaclan Orra"

an oil painting of a dead gull's body, chest open and bone exposed, lying on yellowing grassland

black text against white background in Scottish Gaelic reads "A dh’aindeoin cunnart àirdean nam bearraidhean tha e a’ dol suas agus sìos a’ chreag trì tursan a’ marbhadh trì fulmairean agus a’ lìonadh a bhrù fad trì làithean."

"Tha Na Buthaidean a’ Cur M’ Fhaclan Orra", the Gàidhlig translation of "The Puffins Wear My Words" is available to read on sramdobhran.foundation. The story painted with Devil's-bit Scabious, and its three oil paintings are on view through 22 November this year at TINA Gallery, London.

black text against white background in Tibetan reads "རི་ཕྲུག"

an oil painting of a bear intruding the kitchen in a house

black text against white background in Tibetan reads "རི་ཕྲུག་གཅིག་པོར་གྲོང་སྡེ་དེ་ལ་འཚོ་བ་བསྐྱལ་གྱི་ཡོད། མི་གཞན་དང་བར་ཐག་བཞག་ནས་བསྡད་པ་དང་། ཁོ་མི་དེ་ཚོའི་བསམ་བློ་ལ་སྐྲག་གི་ཡོད།"

"རི་ཕྲུག", the Tibetan translation of "The Child of the Mountain" is available to read on sramdobhran.foundation. The story as a text installation painted with pigment made from Hardy fuchsia, and its six oil paintings are on view through 21 December this year at
@collective-edin.bsky.social

black text against white background reads" The Child of the Mountain"

an oil painting of four caterpillar fungus lying on an open palm

Black text against white background reads "One summer, the child gathers the fungus at the foot of the snowy mountain, and senses the tree next to them, they stop to look up."

"The Child of the Mountain" is available to read on sramdobhran.foundation. The story as a text installation painted with pigment made from Devil's-bit Scabious, and its six oil paintings are on view through 21 December this year at @collective-edin.bsky.social

Marsh orchid buds against green grassy background

Marsh orchid blowing in the wind

heath spotted orchid amidst reflectiveness of green grass

Marsh orchid and health spotted orchid in north Skye’s mild month of May.

#wildflowerhour

Health bumble closeup with fringe cups

Carder bumble bee buried their head deep in the barrel of a pink flower

A bumble bee on carpet bugle

Tree wasp on hawthorn flowers

Health bumble, carder bumble, fringe cups, bumble on bugle, and tree wasp with hawthorn flowers.

#bees #pollinators #inverts

Early stage of red clover

Red clover, seamar a’ chapuill, the mare’s clover in Gaelic, also sùgag for the honey infused bloom that comes a little later.

#wildflowerhour

Blossomed white clover

white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish.

#wildflowerhour

White clover flower’s early stage amidst green grass

white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish.

#wildflowerhour

Sweet vernal grass looking pink and purple agains blurry green background of field

sweet vernal grass

Germander speedwell blooming amidst greenness

Veronica chamaedrys, Germander Speedwell in Skye, nuallach (also for a howling cry) in Gaelic.

#wildflowerhour

hawthorn flower buds and blooming flowers rising from shadow like suspended bubbles

hawthorn, sgeach - a haw, roots in hu (celtic) - pervading while its scent smelled.

#wildflowerhour

heath spotted orchid amidst reflectiveness of green grass

heath spotted orchid, maculata, ùrach bhallach

#wildflowerhour

a group of people sitting on chairs and standing, with a white dog lying next to them, watching projected films in a community hall. A pair of speakers visible on the sides of the screen.

an opened notebook showing messages left by visitors that reads of thanks, and remarks of the event being enjoyed.

two tables with blue printed cloths hosting banana bread, shortbread cookies, selection of tea, kombucha, and fig jelly.

a distant view from doorway of the event setup, projection screen with speakers, lines of chairs, and tables for food and drinks.

Thank you for joining @theoneminutes.org X @andeo.co at the premiere screening of ‘When filmmaking is a first language spoken to protect’ at Talla Stafainn. Heartfelt thanks to all filmmakers. The series is curated by @shenxin.info and joined by UNEMENU - alivan.xyz/eats

Join us today from 2.30 to 4.30 at Talla Stafainn 🌱 @shenxin.info @mishaderidder.com @yannakok.bsky.social

Fulmars are stunning looking seabirds and specifically designed for life out at sea such as the tube on top of it's bill Which you can see in this photo) which is used to excrete saltwater!

A white moth amidst green grass and horse tail

Green-veined white, Skye

#teammoth

A red moth holding onto a long brown straw upside down

Ruby tiger moth, Skye

#teammoth

Opposite leaves golden saxifrage shining through shadows, moisture, and a hint of spider web

opposite leaves golden saxifrage, Skye

#wildflowerhour

Drinker moth between long grass

drinker moth, Skye

#teammoth

Hardy fuchsia’s blooming pink white-ish flower

hardy fuchsia, Skye

#wildflowerhour

a bumble bee on carpet bugle

bumble on bugle

#wildflowerhour

close up of a red campion against blurry green background

red campion, skye

#wildflowerhour

cuckooflowers in Skye

#brassicaceae #wildflowerhour

blooming coast rockcress against blurry green backdrop

coast rockcress obscured against blurry green backdrop

coast rockcress in Skye

#brassicaceae #wildflowerhour

Social Insecurity Report We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

Today Amnesty International UK released a report exposing the brutal reality of the UK social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins.

DR UK has authored the section on the impacts on the Disabled community.

Please read & share widely! 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...

A closeup of cuckoo flowers and flower buds

Heard the calls of cuckoo birds before seeing the blooming cuckoo flowers.

brownish red shoots of tiny mosses against warm and greenish background

Pottailes in north Skye.

#tinyplants #wildflowerhour

a close up of field woodrush, bearing brownish-purple flower with large light-yellow anthers.

Field woodrush, learman-raoin in gaelic, lear, or
léir - being clear and discernible.

#tinyplants #wildflowerhour