fletchpj @fletchpj@qoto.org

Good morning and Happy #wednesday Today’s #cloud #photo I took at Cley-next-the-sea as the #marsh samphire turned red for #autumn Throughout the year this #nature reserve teems with life and wildlife interest

🔌Artist: #FALKO1graffiti in City: #Kapstadt South Africa 🇿🇦 - Title: "All we want for Xmas is Electricity" -
#Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork

One of nature's most incredible sights...

#kingfisher #bird #birds #nature #wildlofe #ukbirds #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #nikon #birdphotography #birdwatching

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a wish-granting #yokai that resides in dolls & is known as hinnagami. They are created by a complex magical ritual of collecting earth from graves, shaping it into a doll & then leaving it on the roadside to be trampled by 1000 people. Although they grant their owner any wish, they will demand another wish is made each time & the process continues forever. Even after death, the hinnagami will continue to haunt its creator.
https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/05/hinnagami-yokai.html?spref=tw&m=1
#folklore #japodon

Midmar Kirk Recumbent Stone Circle for #StandingStoneSunday #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

For us, #GothicAdvent is inspired by all those seasonal tales shot through with tragedy, or featuring otherworldly elements.

If your heart doesn't break a little at this HC Andersen tale, you're already dead inside. 🖤🎄

'The Little Match Seller' (1902) dir. James Williamson.

Beside being part of the Swedish Christmas celebrations Julbocken was also a mystical creature in the folklore. The goat was connected with the Devil. These stories might hail from priests, trying to stop the use of Julbocken.
On legends tell of the Christmas goat as a straw doll which were decorated with colorful ribbons and then placed in the barn. One evening a girl goes there to dance with the goat. Instead she meets the Devil, who tears her to pieces. #adventfolktale #folklore #advent

#GothicAdvent Day 8:

On Sundays (Sunnandæg [ ᛋᚢᚾᚾᚪᚾᛞᚫᚷ ] ) the #Goddess of the Sun can feel very far away at this time of year, especially when the mysterious Swaailen (a thick sea fog that appears on the #IsleOfWight ) rolls in.

People would close their shutters tight, ensure that mistletoe was hung over all doorways and that the fires in the harth were stoked and cared for.

The Swaailen was known to creep its way down the chimney, through he cracks and even up the floorboards. Each icy tendril having a will of its own and that will could snatch away an unprepared bystander.

So the people would say the charms and pray the prayers to keep them safe as the fog and the darkness encroached. The one thing they would never do though, is let themselves be out in the winter's cold and darkness, when the Swaailen came a-visiting.

#Folklore #Sunday #Sunnandæg #Magic #Pagan #Advent #Fog #Winter #WinterIsHere #FolkHorror

@folklore

Thought I'd better introduce my photography side on here! Geology got me into photography when I found myself getting distracted when supposed to be taking field outcrop photos. I love how it helps me educate and enthuse about geology! This one is of the limestone reef out at Castlepoint, North Island, NZ. These were connected once but sea erosion has separated them. I brought them back together.
#geology #photography #rocks #science #LandscapePhotograhy #sedimentary #limestone #erosion #nz

I posted this some time ago, but for those who didn’t see it: the Galactic Core region of the Milky Way over Stoke Pero Church, #ExmoorNationalPark #exmoor #photography #landscapephotography #astrophotography #MilkyWay #GalacticCore #stokepero #stokepeeochurch #graveyard

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinctions events occurred between 450-440 million yrs ago. It is the earliest, & the 2nd-most severe. About 85% of marine animal species went extinct over two close spikes of extinction.

One family of trilobites, the Trinucleids (pictured), flourished in the Ordovician but became a victim of the end Ordovician extinction. They lived in deeper water, and all share an easily recognisable wide pitted fringe on their headshields.
#extinction #trilobite #fossil

It's customary to 'Tell The Bees' of a death in Shropshire.

In 1961 the Bee's of Sam Rogers from Myddle (totalling 14 hives) were told of his death as custom dictates. Having heard of his passing, they turned up at his service and settled on the flowers at his grave 💚

#Folklore #Folktales #Bee's #Shropshire #FolkloreNerd #FolkloreThursday #Beekeeper #Storytelling