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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love the shape of this matcha bowl.

Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A relaxing bicycle ride last week from village to village. Found the spot where I encountered a #hare at dawn, which inspired my hare paintings. Here are two postcards from the 'Hares in Half-Light' Postcard and Greetings Card set now available from my online shop: amandatamsin.fr/products/har...

Art Postcard showing a painted leaping hare and ginkgo biloba leaf-print collage elements. In earthy tones, indigo and blue.

Art Postcard showing a painted standing hare and ginkgo biloba leaf-print collage elements. In earthy tones, indigo and blue.

Scene looking across a canal with tree reflections over the calm water. Conifer and deciduous trees, a teepee, kayak and wooden cabin are visible on the other side.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been painting hares recently and doing a little research on these creatures. Here's a great article by Lari Don from @folklorethursday.bsky.social website. Beliefs around hares are diverse, yet with interesting commonalities, i.e around shape-shifting... folklorethursday.com/easter/chasi...

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Animal Folklore: Chasing Hares Through Stories, Myth, and Legend – #FolkloreThursday

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Scarlett @wirewrapandweaveit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Posting for #BirdOfTheDay #BadWeather House finches in an ice storm.

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

all that distance and still the cloud finds itself in a puddle #Vss365 #Cloud #PoetrySky #Tanka #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin #Poetry my 📷

A cloud and a glowing streetlamp reflected in a rain puddle on wet pavement, with raindrops making small ripples across the reflected sky.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Such atmospheric and fascinating photos.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caladenia paludosa - Swamp Spider Orchid Often found growing in dense coastal heathland in areas that are swampy in winter, hence its common name. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a single orchid flower that has long, thin petals and sepals that are greenish yellow in colour with a deep red tip to the central labellum. The labellum has long red-tipped fringing. The ends of the three sepals have think brown tips.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another Wrensday shot. A male white-winged fairywren at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Port Augusta. #wrensday

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you like art, plants, animals, travel, books and language, you'll probably appreciate 'Through the Tapir Forest'. This will be a blog-like newsletter, where I'll share thoughts on creativity and all that inspires me along the way. Free to sign up (at the end of my home page): amandatamsin.fr

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Art & Handcrafted Pieces inspired by Wild Animals and Places

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A sweet little mushroom/toadstool for #MushroomMonday Found on a fairly dry woodland footpath in Burgundy, this September. Any ideas what it could be? #woodlandwalk

A tiny brown mushroom or toadstool with plate shaped top, slightly concave, and wrinkled surface. Placed next to a dried, brown oakleaf for scale.

Enlarged photo of a tiny brown mushroom or toadstool. Disc shaped top, slightly upturned at edges, with wrinkled surface. surrounded by leaves and moss.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Some more botany. More beautiful peas ...

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͟J͟͟a͟͟n͟͟n͟e͟ @janne22.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Guten Morgen allerseits.. 🌼🌼💚🌼 Septemberwelk.. 🥀

Nahaufnahme einer verwelkten Kapuzinerkresse-Blüte mit grüner Samenkapsel und einem auffällig geschwungenen grünen Stängel vor grünem unscharfem Hintergrund.

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ulli @ulli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sehnsucht nach Weite Tschüss für heute, mögen euch Abend, Nacht und Träume sanft umhüllen. 💫

Eine Flusslandschaft von trockenen Schilfinseln durchzogen.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Magical encounters with hares inspired me to create two paintings. This is one from a pair of original mixed media artworks on paper, now available from my online shop: amandatamsin.fr/products/sta... #hare #mixedmediaartwork #originalart

Mixed media artwork with painting of hare. Colours suggestive of twilight. In neutral tones, blues and indigo. Collage elements are leaf prints from Ginkgo Biloba and a Tulip Tree.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I do find these cloud structures fascinating.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seen green Praying Mantis on our walks before, but this one's the same colour as this year's dried grass. Camouflage or coincidence? On a vu les Mantes Religieuses vertes sur nos balades, mais celle-ci est le même couleur que l’herbe sèche de cette année. Camouflage ou coincidence? #InsectThursday

A light brown Praying Mantis on a ground of similar colour, showing brown earth and pale dried grass.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Walking through the warm streets in #Auxerre, France. A quick change in light. On se promenait dans les rues d'Auxerre. L'après-midi commençait de faire chaud. La lumière changeait tout d’un coup. #WallsonWednesday #UrbanGaze

Two old houses in pale pink and beige tones, with shutters. A pedestrian street with faded red-brown block paving. A tree with elegant, tapering leaves provides dappled shade across the walls of the houses.

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Robert E. (He/him) @robertemond.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

#AlphabetChallenge | #WeekBforBooks & #MuralMonday, #MuralsOnMonday This is how #Newport commemorates banned book week. We put a #murals of banned books on the library steps & tell people come on you can check them out here, where we believe in freedom. #Photography #WestCoastKin #PublicArt #PNW

Steps leading to a library painted with the spines and covers of books banned elsewhere in the USA. From the bottom: Wrinkle in Time, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Catcher in the Rye, Speak, Looking for Alaska, & Slaughterhouse-five. The top step says “art by Gary Herd Newport public library”. Mural by Gary Herd photo by Robert Emond.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Found a new street in #Auxerre and these two minimalist murals. On a trouvé une nouvelle rue en Auxerre et aussi ces deux peintures murales minimalistes. #MuralMonday

A minimalist, slightly faded mural on a sandy-coloured wall. Mural depicts a white flower spike with flowerheads pointing downwards.

Minimalist black painted swirls, perhaps organic forms, on a pale pink-beige wooden doorway with white stone step.

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SaraG @hardlikearmour.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Little brown birds are beautiful. #BirdsUpClose #BirdOfTheDay #Birds

A Pacific Wren perched on a twig with a bright green background. It's in three- quarters view with its beak tilted up towards the upper right corner.

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The Bishop @ceas10.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Corn Moon I've always called the August full moon the Corn Moon because the corn starts turning Also called the Sturgeon Moon Stunning Either Name #Nature #Photography #Science #WitchSky #Photo #Moon #NightSky #Sky #Astrology #SkyScape #EastCoastKin #CornMoon #SturgeonMoon #PaganSky

98.7% Waxing Gibbous Moon

Taken 08/26/2026 - Galaxy S24 Ultra

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tomorrow’s full moon falls in Weodmōnaþ, the Anglo-Saxon name for August. Writing in AD 725, Bede explains it means “month of weeds”, referring to plants flourishing abundantly at this time. The Anglo-Saxons measured their months by the course of the moon. #FolkloreThursday

Collage of late-summer wildflowers in shades of yellow, purple and white, including harebell, bellflower, yarrow, thistle and scabious, with a hoverfly, butterflies and a six-spot burnet moth feeding among the flowers.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

One to go to if you're in the #York area of England. Also good to know about the book for anyone interested in #folklore. #FolkloreThursday

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Love these, but the last one is a bit scary! 🐕

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hello #FolkloreThursday Maybe randomly, I placed Ginkgo leaves with a hare in this artwork (partly shown). Am trying to discover how Ginkgo Biloba & Hare may be connected (initial thoughts below). I'd love to learn more about these elements and/or their pairing from a folklore POV, if you can help.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Have added my first note to Substack. I'll be writing about my art and inspiration there, along with what I feel like day-to-day (not too much of a plan). If you've been using Substack for a while, do you have any advice for using the platform? substack.com/@amandatamsi...

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Thinking of posting here soon… On mixed media art and sources of inspiration (mainly from the natural world). Though, I’d likely be writing about languages, word origin and day-to-day discoveries to...

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Went on a lovely wildflower walk with my mum yesterday. Just around the edges of the village. J'ai fait une petite balade, avec ma mère, hier. On a simplement fait le tour du village. #wildflowers #balade #bourgogne

Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa). Straggly purple wildflowers growing from a leafy green plant close to the ground.

Cow Parsley flowerhead, mostly closed. Reddish-brown and fluffy in appearance. Growing from dry grassland.

Eryngium campestre. A small, compact thistle with rounded, yellow-green flowerheads. Leaves are silver-grey in colour. Growing on dry grassland.

An abandoned sports field turned into meadow. An old stone church and tall deciduous tree are in the distance. The sky is blue with a few wispy clouds.

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Woodland with the alternative theme #Yellow. A male (Northern) Yellow Warbler on spring migration in woodland in southern Ontario. #ECK #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #Velvia #2000s #VintageLens #ManualFocus

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's the second finished artwork with hare. The collage elements are Ginkgo Biloba leaf prints, created with a gel plate, using acrylic ink, gouache and real Ginkgo leaves - some were collected in Bath, others in Burgundy. Mixed media on paper. 1/2 #originalartwork #artbyhumans #hare #lievre

An original mixed media artwork on paper with leaping hare. Has collaged elements - Ginkgo Biloba leaf prints. In neutral tones with blue and indigo.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The first of two hare paintings inspired by two encounters with these creatures. I have kept detail on these creatures to a minimum, to capture their softness, brevity and magic, in the low light where I saw them. More on the encounters below. 1/3 #harepainting #lièvre #natureinspiredart

A mixed media painting of a hare, standing. Leaf print collage elements are present. The painting is in blue, indigo and earthy tones.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Have been feeling very sad about Jason Arday. How awful the UK mainstream media (especially the broadsheet papers) has become... I recommend watching the video below by @goodlawproject.org to find out more, and also to sign their letter to the PM.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Love seeing how these subtle pinks, beiges, yellows and more work together. Inspiring...

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Through the woods and along the river are the places to walk at the moment, slowly... (in another heatwave). A travers les bois et au bord de la rivière sont les lieux pour se promener en ce moment, et doucement (encore une vague de chaleur). #baladedujour #Bourgogne #naturesky

Me (woman in brown dress and straw hat) on a woodland walk, in dappled shade.

View beside a river on a sunny day. The river water is still and low. Dry grass, dappled shade and small leafy tree in the foreground.

A sweet little fern, growing in a stone wall.

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Amanda Tamsin @amandatamsin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I do believe this is true 🧡🤎

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Dan Sproul Photography @dansphotos.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Under the devils bathtub bridge in Hocking Hills Ohio. #ohio #photography #nature #naturephotography #SilentSunday dansproul.com/featured/dev...

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