Knitted Pies, Collies and Coffee Shops

Close up photo of a group of Cladonia podetia. Each podetium is light grey in colour and shaped roughly like a golf tee. The top/bowl of each podetium is ringed with numerous small, roundish bright red blobs. These blobs are called apothecia - they are reproductive, spore producing structures.

Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom adjacent:) Photo covers about 4cm, left to right.

Another shot from last night's trip along the Clyde in the gloaming. I love the mix of shapes, colours and silhouettes in this photo.

#glasgow #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #theclyde #finniestoncrane

A game of hide and seek, spot it?

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

precious enormous white fluffy puppy being held

precious enormous white fluffy puppy being held

precious enormous white fluffy puppy sleeping

precious enormous white fluffy puppy sleeping

New sweet flat-faced seepy office baby Lucy is a Great Pyrenees who is NINE. WEEKS. OLD.

Stylised geometric pen drawing of a duck in grey and orange.

Just posting "Duck a l'orange" to The Hague for Postcard Art Exhibit 2026, to raise funds for Alzheimer's. #postcardartexhibit26 #postcardartexhibit #postcardartfamily #paeartforacause

This ink pen piece, Night and Day, is on its way to The Hague for @paeartforacause.bsky.social Postcard Art Exhibit to raise funds for Alzheimer's, a very worthy cause, and one close to my heart.

#postcardartexhibit26 #postcardartexhibit #postcardartfamily #paeartforacause #Art

A paramedics snack timetable Small naive drawings of each of these snacks Coffee 1-5am Toast 6-7am Bacon Buttie 8-10am Multiple packets of crisps 10-12am Massive stack of cheese on toast 1-2pm Meat Pie 5-6pm Apple 7-7.30pm You can never go wrong with a Hob Nob- or Four 3-4pm Stonking great sausage roll(s) 7.30-9pm Dahl 10-11pm Urgent 12pm TUNNOCKS CARAMEL DAY Colin the caterpillar* 12-1pm/am

If you followed me on twitter you may have seen this. Child 3 made it for child 2 when they qualified as a paramedic.

Bit of gentle wholesome cheer in the face of today's news.

I borrowed "Notebook" from the library.

#DogsOfBluesky

Poster style artwork with the word 'March' as a heading and images of 8 houses and a quote from Sylvia Plath at the bottom

Contemporary US artist Grace Yencer #Womensart

UK Tory leader: Sandwiches aren’t real Kemi Badenoch “will not touch bread if it’s moist.”

I'll take the bait www.politico.eu/article/uk-t...

Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #March

Photo of an off-white lichen. One section of the lichen looks like brain. The rest looks like frilly leaves. Five large, orange apothecia are visible on the lichen. The lichen is growing on grey rock and on other (crustose) lichens.

Orange Rock Posy Lichen. NWT, Canada.
lichen is about 3cm in longest dimension.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of a black woman wearing a patterned blue and yellow dress which is the same pattern as the background

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #womensart

One of the best things about living in Glasgow is turning a corner and finding yourself looking up at a roof like this!

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#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #kinningpark #architecturephotography

Embroidery on a turquoise background with images of a goldfish, flowers and circular bands in white leading to two skull like Japanese heads

Haunted Pond, 2015 by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici who creates embroideries that often show magical, surreal worlds #womensart

The former Burton's Menswear Store on Argyle Street in Glasgow. It was designed by Wilson and was built in 1929.

#glasgow #argylestreet #architecture #architecturephotography #burtons

Love this sculpted walrus on the old Argyll Motor Works in Alexandria to the west of Glasgow, especially the slightly psychotic look on its face!

#glasgow #alexandria #architecture #sculpture #walrus #pyschoticwalrus

A jackdaw linoprint by my mum, Jo: a coloured version of the one she did for my 2017 book 21st-Century Yokel (now reissued by Swift Press, after a short while of being out of print due to the collapse of my previous publishers).

Few sights gratify me more on a long equinoxical walk than an eerie weather-ravaged tree playing conductor to a screaming sky.

Painting featuring two trees with pink blossom against a blue sky

'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt

People that say "can I smoove your dog?" That's the code word, you're one of us.

There was a bit where they used some stairs. Isn't that cheating?

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

And this is the inside!

The Shard skyscraper rising above the Thames in London, framed by the Millennium Bridge in the foreground under partly cloudy skies during golden hour

Dramatic sunset over the River Thames in London with dark storm clouds, golden light breaking through, the London Eye visible on the left, and Thames river boats traveling on the water

Moody sunset view from the Thames with the Sea Containers building silhouetted against orange and blue storm clouds, with Oxo Tower visible and golden light reflecting on the water

#London being all dramatic this evening.

@glastomichelle.bsky.social is this you on page 5 of the i newspaper today?

Drove from Church Road Leckhampton to Horsefair Street Charlton Kings today. All of the roads have potholes including ones deep enough to need urgent repair. Had to avoid people taking photos and measuring one of them. Have a £800 bill for wheel damage from a pothole in Bishops Cleeve.

Four paintings in vivid colours featuring a pumpkin created with dots against a brightly coloured background

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said that her pumpkins act as self-portraits. The idea began as her parents owned a plant nursery and she has described the pumpkin as “a spiritual home,” a form in which she sees herself reflected #Womensart