fletchpj @fletchpj@qoto.org

Walls have ears, they say... I wonder what these old stones have heard?

They line a wooded lane that rises to a village church, and I love the labour and love that went into them.

The herringbone style goes back to the Romans, but you still see them in SW England. Cornwall has the best-known, though these sandstone beauties - slowly being reclaimed by nature - are in Somerset's Quantock Hills.

#history #archaeology #landscape #ferns #Mosstodon #Somerset #Quantocks

A lonesome mushroom down in the dark woods
#NaturePhotography #wildlife #woodland #scotland #forest #wood #lake #loch #river #Highland
#Fungi #mushroom #wildflowers
#Insects #nature #photography #fungisunday #mastadonart

December sunset on the Isle of Skye.
This is a truly amazing place to watch the sun go down.
I could hear a curlew calling as he flew across the bay. The colours slowly faded as the sun disappeared behind the headland.
#sunset
#curlew
#birdsong
#isleofskye
#mindfulness
#nature
#photography
#scotland

A gluttonous female jumping spider (Opisthoncus nigrofemoratus) grabs new flies off a garden leaf before she's even finished eating her previous catches. That’s three flies in her mouth.

Romsey, Victoria, Australia.

#Salticidae #predators #spiders #JumpingSpiders #Australia #photography

Hawthorn seem to have the best growing habitat for moss and lichen, a whole mini landscape on this one twig #Mosstodon #lichensubscribe #lichen

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens), upright coral fungus (Ramaria concolor), and ghost pipe (Monotropa uniflora). The first is an autotroph (photosynthetic), the second is saprophytic or mycorrhizal (it's a mystery, I gather), and the third is a myco-heterotroph that parasitizes fungi in the Russulaceae. Platte Clove Preserve, Tannersville, NY. #nature #moss #plants #parasite #photography #Catskills #fungus #fungi

💧Artist: #ERES125 in City: #Halle #StadHalle , Belgium 🇧🇪- Title: "Choises" (inspired by the Original Photo of Louwies) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork #Lake

What do Alfred Russel Wallace, his sister, and spirits have to do with the Museum?

This week was the 200th anniversary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s birth, the man who independently came up with the idea of evolution concurrently with Charles Darwin. But today also happens to be Friday the 13th!

#fridaythe13th #wallace #alfredrusselwallace #charlesdarwin #darwin #Evolution #archives

Black Trumpet #Mushrooms to herald #FungiFriday. Give me more of that funky horn! 🎺🎺🎺

#mushtodon #sporespondence #nature #naturephotography #macro

I hadn't noticed that the BBC had produced a new audio adaptation of Dickens's "The Signalman" for Christmas, but now I have, so you can, too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ghw9
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#ghosts #horror #ghostStory

A fernery set up inside a greenhouse, in the Government Botanical Garden of #Ooty, India. #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Ferniverse #MastIndia @mastodonindians

My TedEd lesson is now officially out, sort of a sneak peek into the macabre and fascinating world of parasitoid wasps and how they attack different preys. It was an absolute joy working on the script and seeing it animated with the production team!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqaX2yi0VF8

Heggle Lane, a love story between a tree and a fingerpost #FingerpostFriday #Trees

'Peach Blossoms in Bloom at Nonaka Kannon Temple' from the series 'One Hundred Views of Osaka' - Utagawa Yoshitaki, 1860.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #birds #japodon

#introductions

I'm Amy,

I'm a Writer, Folklorist and part time Goblin who focuses on Shropshire Folklore, with a focus on ghosts and #Ghostlore.

I am also a trainee history teacher, and the Brand ambassador for Haunted Magazine.

You can expect ghosts, history and general weirdness of Shropshire 💚

Tree of the day #Treeoftheday #trees

In Poland, waxwing birds love to eat fermented fruit, get drunk and then lie insensible on the pavement.
People collect them and put them in a safe place until they sober up... #OurBeautifulWorld
Thanks to @StateofPoland for the photo.

A small portfolio of trees in the winter fog shot in my local woodland.

#portfolioday #trees #woodland #photography #landscapephotography #art #winter