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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Huh. It's a real mystery as to what is driving inflation.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Still a few things in the garden - 4 Turkish eggplants (via the excellent seed source - Two Seeds in a Pod).

4 small orange aubergines and 2 chilis on a grey wooden slatted table.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A hippo and an antelope at Villa Romana del Casale. 🏺 #MosaicMonday #WorldHeritage

Mosaic with a grey hippo in the foreground and a lying down antelope to the middle left. The background is off white and parts of other animals can be seen. Photo: mine, April 2026.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For all the wonder of statues, mosaics, ceramics & ruined temples, I find few Roman remains more evocative than the roads with their worn paving, rut-marks and an immediately imaginable sense of prosaic life going on with people, carts & animals in the streets. This one is at Morgantina, Sicily. 🏺

A Roman road stretching to the horizon up a gentle slope. The stones are old and lichen covered, there are kerbs to the left and right. Wild plants grow low among some of the stones. Photo: mine, April 2026.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just one of the beauties from the Ring of Brodgar on Mainland, Orkney for #StandingStoneSunday. The strip of heath behind is the deep, rock-cut surrounding ditch. #WorldHeritage

A large standing stone with heavy green and yellow lichen load in grass with heath ditch and field behind Very grey cloudy sky. Photo: mine, June 2022.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ideas/advice? A community #climate project (Ileret-Kenya) includes an Indigenous birder who has helped with a field guide & started a local bird conservation club. They lack equipment (laptop, bins etc.) Ideas for support/training for aspiring African ornithologists? #ornithology #birdsky 🪶

The black cover of a book called "A Field Guide to the Birds of Northern Kenya" The title is also given in the local Daasanach language. A photo at top features a bustard looking left and there is a small yellow map of Kenya at lower right that says 142 species/kimir.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s a wonderful time of year to get outside.

A pond with trees turning colors at the edge and a blue sky behind

Pond lily leaves with brown fallen pine needles lying on them and the dark water.

Purple flowers of a New England aster in early morning dappled sunlight.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching me, watching you, it’s so easy to see…

A frog’s head peaks above the water of a swamp with some green leaves

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A little bit of tree colour on the turn at Weir Pond.

Trees at the edge of a small lake with blue sky dotted with clouds.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Absolutely love this beautiful off-white, tin-glazed plate thrown by Roger Fry at Poole for the Omega Workshops. #Bloomsbury #ceramics

An off-white glazed plate with a crack at 11 O'clock. On a wooden table.

The base of an off-white glazed plate with the Omega Workshops mark in the centre.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There’s some wonderful work from Connecticut-based artists at the Aldrich Museum decennial in Ridgefield right now, including by Felandus Thames (@felandusthames.bsky.social), Dan Gunn, Philip Taaffe and Enrique Figueredo.

“She did what she could” - Bead work by Felandus Thames 2025

“middle scenery (after the ride)” - Dan Gunn 2026

“Syncopated ferns, 2001-19” - Philip Taaffe

“Paveando en mi Cadillac antibalas” - woodcut, Enrique Figueredo, 2020

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AE George Russell thought the post-impressionists at the 1911 United Arts Club exhibition in Dublin: "were not decadent but merely decrepit". According to Joseph Plunkett, Cezanne was "poor", Matisse "hopeless", Picasso an "idiot" & Van Gogh "ought to be shot".

Part of a page of a catalogue for the post-impressionist exhibition in Dublin in 1911, with hand-written notes by Joseph Blanket added in black ink. Held at the National Library of Ireland.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At the request of the Magistri Militum I have agreed to convert the Arcus Triumphalis, planned since the Pax Romana, to an Armamentarium to have the rapid ability to use large numbers of manuballistae, plus sagittarii on the attica & platea, & hold large quantities of plumbatae Imp. Constantinus🏺

Constantine's arch from the front against blue sky and a buildings. There is a fence to prevent access.
Photo: User:Alexander Z., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And the eastern entrance into the main studio area.

A barn-red building with white trim and a green door, with a big tree's trunk in the foreground as well as granite ledge. The sky is blue and it is early morning light.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

J. Alden Weir's studio seen from the south side early on a beautiful autumn morning. #AmericanImpressionists 🎨👨‍🎨

A large oak tree in the realy morning light towers over a a three story artist's studio painted in barn red with white trim. The sky is blue. In the foreground and shadow there is a shed and an old apple tree (the apples are very tasty BTW). The whole is part of Weir Farm National Historic Site in Ridgefield CT.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Bramleys fresh off our tree and about to get made into a pie. 🍎🍎🍎🥧

6 green apples - some with red streaking and dusky marks - on a wooden slatted table. In the sun.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A nice treat arrived in time for the weekend. Can’t wait to dig in as there’s been a lot of discussion about this. And I’m expecting insights from a lot of Scandinavian literature I haven’t read. Of course I’m starting with Chapter 9 on Arctic Wildlife Commodities! 🏺

A black and read book on a wooden table. There is a gold coin pictured on the black, top half of the book. The title is “The northern routes to kingship - a history of Scandinavia 180-550” . T he author is Dagfinn Skre

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This fella was watching me grill fish on the deck last evening. Getting ready for his own feed no doubt.

A barred owl sitting on a branch and seen through more branches.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This monster is >3cm long and just waiting to slice into my flesh. A black horsefly. Go find some horses instead!

A big fly with very big eyes, on blue fabric

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Long, long before colonists settled Deer Isle & established a ferry landing in 1792, Wabanaki people were here. The Scott's Landing shell mound is evidence of at least 3,000 years of use of this site. Like many Maine shell middens the site is at risk from sea level rise & erosion. #climateheritage 🏺

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Scott’s Landing Preserve, Deer Isle, Maine. A special place.

The shore and trees seen behind a field of asters and goldenrod.

A glade with birch, oak and ferns. Blue sky with a couple of wisps of cloud.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maine on a plate. Lobster, potatoes, clams.

Lobster roll and chips with fried clams and tartare sauce, lemon pieces at the left side. All on a garish red plastic tray on a white wooden table top.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cinema for the renting. 📽️🎞️🎥

An old cinema building in black and beige with a for rent sign. The name of the cinema is The Capawock.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The veggie garden is in overdrive.

Lots of veggies in two containers on a grey painted wood background.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A very lovely casual ink sketch of Vanessa Bell by Duncan Grant, 1918 - from the estate of David Garnett. #Bloomsbury

An ink sketch of a woman sitting on a chair looking to the left of the picture with her head resting on her right hand. Photo mine.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

So I know what we’re eating breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days. #gardening

A trug on a wooden table with a lot of tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and cucumbers.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This one's not going off to the library but I came across it again while clearing stuff out. Sir Henry Irving had an excellent bookplate - as did Sir John Martin Harvey who might have acquired this copy of the Life of Betterton directly from him. An earlier owner was Charles Blunt(?). #bookloversday

Inside cover of a book with a black and red bookplate of "henry irving" at top, and the black and white bookplate of "Sir John Martin Harvey Kt."

Two pages at the front of the 1710 edition of The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton. The left page has a portrait of Betterton in an extravagant wig.

The name of a previous owner of the book dated 1828

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Third boot load of books going to the Wilton library. I must have pruned over 1000 books this week to free up some space & our local library - a fantastic community resource - makes more than $100k for operations with its excellent spring & autumn book sales. #bookloversday 📚 #libraries

The open back of a blue car filled with boxes of books.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

These giant, finger-sized Carolina sphinx moth larvae are doing a number on my tomatoes!! I guess it’s good to share. 🐛🐛🐛

Large green caterpillar with white and black chevrons and a fed horn on a plant stalk

Large grew caterpillar eating ripening green tomato

Large green caterpillar eating an eggplant colored small tomato. Grubby gardener’s finger for scale.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We fell in love with Sikkim cucumbers last year and planted more this year. Brought to Europe by Sir Joseph Hooker froman 1848 trip to the Himalayas. Their thick brown skin helps them keep longer once picked - which is good because we are entering a cucumber glut! 🌱 🥒

Three plump, brown, cracked and webbed cucumbers on a slatted wooden table. One is cut to show the interior.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Blackberry jam & scones tomorrow!

Lots of blackberries in a blue and white bowl on a wooden table flecked with green lichen.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A lovely, simple, bird head on an early 7th century BC pottery fragment from Megara Hyblaea in eastern Sicily. A wader or a gull perhaps. On display at ‎⁨Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi⁩ in Siracusa⁩. #archaeobirds 🏺

A fragment of tan coloured pottery with a partial monochrome bird head facing to the right. The bird has a big eye and a fairly long bill. A wader or gull? Photo mine - April 2026.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

AQI around 159 in southern Fairfield County, CT & predicted to worsen. It actually smells of wood-smoke outside. Another urgent signal that we need to get climate change under control fast. Save your lungs and stay inside this evening.

A dark yellow/brown haze that is blocking sunlight, seen over the treeline in Southern Connecticut less than an hour after England lost to Argentina because of going defensive too early while 1-0 up.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

First broad beans of the season! One of my favourite crops here, as unlike in the UK, they are virtually impossible to find in the shops or markets. Doubly so if you want them young and tender.

Shelled fava beans in a blue and white bowl on an old wooden table.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Peas are nearly finished, broad beans about ready and cukes setting fruit nicely.

A slightly chaotic vegetable & flower garden.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A real treat today to see an eastern box turtle. Maybe the rain brought her out to look for a laying site after some baking dry days. Listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut unfortunately. 🐢

A small terrestrial turtle walking on old tarmac and see from above, head to the top of the photo. The shell is dark brown with beautiful blotchy yellow markings. It’s a damp day.

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I feel like the person who painted this duck decoy we just picked up in the Adirondacks was trying to go for a surf scoter, white-winged scoter, goldeneye hybrid vibe? Was it common to combine multiple species’ characteristics in one decoy? Or maybe it’s not the original body? 🪶

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy DC Pride Day from our Tee's Toby 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A large brown dog with white feet and nose markings looks up while lying on the floor. The dog has a rainbow bow-tie and rainbow coloring on it's forehead.

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