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Lydia

@hersecretgarden.bsky.social
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 23h
The Goggleby Stone, once part of the processional avenue at Shap, dating from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gorse, a Foxglove and a few Heather flowers, Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. #WildflowerHour
Yellow flowers of Gorse, lower left. Upper left a tree. Lower right, grass. Upper right, Looking into the distance. Grey clouds in the sky. Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.Lower left, Foxglove, with leaves to the right. In the background, rock strewn grass leading to a rock outcrop. Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.Lower part of photo, a few Heather flowers. Middle ground, grass, leading to a rocky outcrop in the distance, which is slightly blurred. Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire.
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This morning I walked to the coffee shop, settling at the edge of the market square as trailers of bleating sheep arrived. I wandered amongst them, the earthy scent of lanolin wrapping me in comfort. I watched the faces around me, hoping that one day I might belong amongst them.
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#slimemould
a mass of small round, white globular slime mould on a dark rotten log
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Search of Destiny (1998) - Viktor Kryzhanivsky
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
& morning of the equinox, field below the house is low rumble & hoo as cows do dawn roll-call, steady rain & traffichiss from the main drag - but some promise SSE as cloud gives up the hill
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘The Sense of Sight.’ #Painting by Annie Louise Swynnerton (1895) #art
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Blackberries Spilling from Tin Cup, Carducius Ream.
Blackberries falling from a tin cup, painting.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
& sky thickens midafternoon, dingy light turning changing leaves grubby, but stirring in the bright moss base of the oak: treecreeper #birds
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I love this video of Bellever in November 2024 I found. It was very cold with a light dusting of frost, there was a beautiful mist over the river and that night snow fell. #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A Fawn, Samuel John Carter, 1875.
A fawn lying down in a grassy nook, painting.
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Christina Maslen @christinamaslen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A pan across Callanish for #StandingStoneSunday
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My favourite word is ‘river’, and I often find myself standing beside one, longing to step into it or simply let the water run through my fingers.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Detail : At the Swan Lake, by Hans Zatzka (1859-1945)
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Hawthorns laden with berries, a beautiful sight & an amazing resource for wildlife.
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Autumn calling me home.
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sheep and oaks near yes Sheepstor … a Couple of Septembers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #moss
Sheep under oaks on a late summer day.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this morning, commute among corvids in claggy air, dew de-stealthing spiderwebs, exhale of dawn
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today marks 12 years since I lost my mum. These are some of my favourite photos of her in my mum and dad's house, which they restored together, with their Springer Spaniel, Tess. I have been told these are some of the only photos where I look most like her.
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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The mesmerizing white horses of Camargue dancing in a golden light beautifully shaped by the dust in the air… #photography #wildlife #art #horse
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
& faint rainbow & bent grass windriffled waters & wildfire sky in high cool wind land reeking dark
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The terrestrial form of Amphibious Bistort, Persicaria amphibia, on the bank of the Wey Navigation at Guildford. #WildflowerHour
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Burdock #SeedHeads #wildflowerhour
8-9 seedheads of burdock, each is round with hooked spikes radiating out
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e2thepowerpii.bsky.social @e2thepowerpii.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After the rainfall the brook was flowing fast.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
horses galloping in the fog
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Heck and lone sheep who lives at Ty Mawr Wybrnant, Bishop Morgan’s birthplace.
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Antique and Vintage Book Art @antiquebookart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Illustration from Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard, London, 1884. #artsky #booksky #naturesky
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Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The most Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus, I have ever seen! A huge swathe, looking breathtakingly beautiful besides the River Blackwater, Kells for #Wildflowerhour
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is it a Swan? Is it an Angel? I think it's a Swangel.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
forgotten by everyone except nature.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
& in the haggard lanes seeding & fruiting - a great tit in ripening haws, slow explosions of rosebay down - across a gappy hedge swarms of martins (brown hare moves at warp speed west), meadow pipit channels a new season's colours
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The pele tower and chapel.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Back in the olden days it was only the very wealthiest of cows that could afford to have a portrait photographer visit them at home.
A black and white archive photograph of a cow posing in front of a mill
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
George Frederic Watts (English, 1817-1904). “Physical Energy”, c.1907. Kensington Gardens, London. cast bronze
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I started a Substack today - a little place for the things I make, find, and think about. I often write poetry but keep it to myself because it’s not “done correctly”. Mostly, I write it because I like it. No particular rules or purpose, just a small corner for things I’d usually keep to myself.
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Martin Dunstan @martin-dunstan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Female blackbird feasting on brambles beside the Dighty Burn in Panmurefield. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a mottled brown bird with their beak ajar is seen perched on a bramble bush with mainly green berries surrounding them. Their beak has part of a berry in it and is moist from the juice. The black berry they have just pecked at is seen near their feet and is motion blurred. Their head, breast and top half of their wings are speckled with light and dark brown patches. The bottom half of their wings and tail are dark brown. They have a jet black eye.
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ronanmaenardø @ronanmaenardo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Thomas Bewick - A general history of quadrupeds (1790)
Gravure sur bois d’un lapin qui court vers la droite, feuillage et herbes en arrière-plan.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
the art of reading in paintings
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yesterday's August weather.
Dark clouds and landscape.
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Now thoroughly obsessed with finding a copy of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. I’ve never seen such a perfect visual interpretation of the novel. The melancholy, the gothic darkness, the wildness and the quiet intensity all captured so beautifully.
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
& flatcalm, insects shoaling over water, close to skin; cattle wearing lanyards come down to the lochan to drink; a cranky heron hunches until you all just leave; harebells stand stilled & luminous in gloom
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Long Lankin (2009 Remaster)
YouTube video by Steeleye Span - Topic
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
& a soft night lacking drama - low pressure & glower - autumn in the peripheral - a field clarted with pied wagtail (17), wan sun, & the new moon drifting under cloud
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I spent the day on the moors, windswept amongst the heather, watching deer, grouse, rabbits and sheep wander freely across the hills. Now, wrapped up with a cup of tea, I feel utterly exhausted yet deeply peaceful. Something about that wild, open freedom made sense. I could have stayed forever.
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Paul Hughes @pshughes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Found this one at a Tram stop in Sheffield on a Sorby Botanical Meeting. Lots of head scratching and app searching in the end we settled on it potentially being Ajowen Caraway, Trachyspermum ammo, #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wild carrot still flowering but some has gone to seed. #wildflowerhour
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Early this morning, I wandered into an allotment clearance. Coffee in hand, I came away with the loveliest old garden tools, homegrown fruits and vegetables and a jar of homemade jam. A morning of simple pleasures, little treasures and good causes. Oh Sunday, you really are a pleasure.
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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A headless horse as depicted by the typically weird Czech artist Jaroslav Panuska. In #folklore most headless horses are in teams pulling coaches with more than one headless #ghost inside and driven by headless coachmen. There seem to be very few which frolic about on their own. #SpookySunday
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Lydia @hersecretgarden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bare feet on the grass surrounding the apple trees.
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