Photo of a tree standing inside a mesh cordon while construction work goes on around it.
Renovation works continuing in Buoy Park. Heavy machinery has excavated around all the trees, leaving them standing on the islands of their own root systems.
#tree #Belfast
Photo of an illuminated tattoo parlour sign featuring a skull.
Tattoo parlour sign on a rainy Belfast night.
Frog and Toad gleefully look at Toad's garden, where little green plants are sprouting. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*
“Toad, Toad, wake up,” said Frog. “Look at your garden!”
Toad looked at his garden. Little green plants were coming up out of the ground.
Photo of a brown guinea pig and a white and beige guinea pig in their enclosure with a hay cookie between them.
...and Mabel and Meryl
#pets
Photo of a green and yellow budgie and a blue and white budgie perched on top of a bird cage.
The menagerie:
Pru and Oonagh...
Photo of a sticker on a traffic light advertising a business called Black Cat Tattoo Studio.
Cats in advertisements always catch the eye
#cats #tattoos #Belfast
Photo of a beige and white guinea pig sleeping in a wooden tunnel
Meryl's so sleepy she has lost her legs
Photo of yellow flowers on an echeveria plant.
Flowering echeveria
#flowers #houseplants
Photo of a baby head sticker on an electrical junction box under the number 13012.
Electrical junction box baby
#Belfast
Photo of a city centre park in Belfast that has been dug up and looks very messy and muddy.
City centre green space 🫣
Photo of a brown guinea pig relaxing by a wooden tunnel in an enclosure.
Magnificent Mabel
Photo of a large bodied brown spider clinging to a wall
Photo of a large bodied brown spider at the bottom of a clear plastic cup
Strikingly marked, and sized, spider huddled in corner of our front door. Think it's a female missing sector orb weaver? It's mild out atm but due to get cold again so relocated it to our garage to give it a chance of surviving.
#spider
Photo of a large white flat topped mushroom growing in a garden planter.
Huge flat-topped mushroom growing in a dormant planter at the bottom of the garden, alongside a decaying oak leaf.
Photo of a cluster of bright red berries on a small holly tree in a back garden
Vivid red holly berries on a little tree at the bottom of the garden
Photo of the roof of a city centre bus stop, displaying images of Belfast landmarks.
Bus shelter art in Belfast city centre
Photo of a white and brown guinea pig in a cosy igloo styled to resemble a blueberry.
Photo of a white and brown guinea pig in a cosy igloo styled to resemble a blueberry.
Piggy in a blueberry
Photo of bird footprints in some shallow snow.
Snow tracks ☃️
The robin that rules our garden grabbing a mealworm on a chilly morning.
Photo of a brown guinea pig snoozing in a wooden tunnel.
Mabel snoozing her way into 2026 😴
Photo of a periwinkle flower alongside some leaves.
Vinca aka periwinkle flower, not minding the wintry weather
#gardening #GardenSky
An altered image from the show Star Trek: The Next Generation. An alien says to Riker and Tasha Yar "Ah. The nature of politics." A small child alien is with him. Both of the aliens' faces have been redacted with black rectangles.
logging on
Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’
This painting by William Ratcliffe depicts a quintessential scene of a Swedish cottage in winter. Inspired by his great friend, and Camden Town Group founder, Harold Gilman’s visit to Sweden in 1912, Ratcliffe began his own exploration of Scandinavia the following year.
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
Did u know? Warm winter weather caused by global warming has resulted in huge amounts of rain in the UK. Small souls like ants, worms & beetles will drown in waterlogged soil. To help excess rain drain away quicker avoid compacting the soil by walking on borders, or even your lawn right now. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🪱
'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd
(Manchester Art Gallery)
Artwork in greys, white and black of the front view of a reindeer with head turned to the right, the creature has thick fur and large antles, the background is dark grey
'Inky drawing of a reindeer' by Scottish artist, Kerry Phippen #WomensArt
Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.
Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.
Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
'Footpath through a park.' (1920) Santiago Rusiñol almost completely concentrated on painting Spain's gardens and landscapes. Wherever he went, he recorded the domestic, at other times enigmatic, forms and rich vegetation of the shrubbery, orchards, and arboretums he discovered.
