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IFAW_Camino

@ifaw-camino.bsky.social
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Likes #Art, #Architecture, #Beaches, #Botany, #Churches, #Geology, #Graveyards, #IndustrialArchaeology, #Irony, #Travel, #Devon. Now part-time in Devon! FlickR pics: www.flickr.com/photos/ifaw

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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Tagging @notpodium.bsky.social On a recent visit to France I saw this lectern and thought of you. Lovely thing - solid, presumably copper? In St Malo's cathedral, with heaps of other good stuff. (Twitter folk tell me you're here now.)
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#StaircaseSaturday I'm back on BlueSky! So here's an odd thing on the left bank of the R. Seine in Rouen. The pedestrian staircase up to the Pont Guillaume le Conquérant is adorned with a well executed graffiti showing Rowan Atkinson. Just... why? Is it a subtle French joke? (We won, Blackadder!)
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt
Photo of a close-up of a number of highly decorated eggs in different colours and stulised images of deer, flowers or bees as well as individuap patterns
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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Middle of the week brings out the small ones for #WrensDay, so here is one of our feathered friends near some holly leaves at Yarrow Valley CP. #birds #wildlifephotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukwildlife #birdphotography #naturetherapy #photography #wildlife #Wrens
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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This looks amazing @pavementgeology.bsky.social!
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DevonChurchLand @devonchurchland.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Medieval Three Hares at Sampford Courtenay
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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
And a few more yellow Snowdrops found during today's outing. A winter delight, and a bit of a Northumbrian speciality... #wildflowerhour #botany
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The uni kid sent me a photo of the snowdrops that I dug up. Now flowering in halls. #WildflowerHour 🤍🌱
A pot of snowdrops with some in flower by a window. Halls buildings in the background.
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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Spring is on its way 😊 #wildflowerhour Winter Aconite in a #Northumberland churchyard today.
A carpet of yellow-flowered Winter Aconite.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Ooh, I've got some of them...
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Good luck, Canadian friends. 👍 There's always "Wolford Chapel in Devon, England... The building and land are publicly owned by the Canadian province of Ontario, and flies the Flag of Canada despite being in the English countryside." Wikipedia. Wonderful place. Maybe a bit small for y'all...
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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 02/02/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow is closed until next Saturday but the calendar is full of opportunities to share art and mingle. Today is Sunday #Stunday run by Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social. Post something stunning under the tag. I get stopped in my tracks by wet leaves. The texture and play of light is ✨✨✨
Closeup of a large teardrop shaped leaf covered in water droplets. The light reflecting makes some of them dark and some brilliant.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Super! Re-posting for #StainedGlassSunday and fans of Flemish staied glass in English churches. Tagging @joukesp.bsky.social too.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#SundayYellow Here's a photo from a trip to France. I've posted another, very different one just recently. I'm interested to see if they get different numbers of likes...
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#SundayYellow I'm pleased with this photo from a trip to France. I'll post another, very different one, from the same trip next. I'm interested to see if they get different amount of likes...
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Love this US Seal! #SealSunday! Here's some British seals sending love from #England, #Scotland and #Wales.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Cool!
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#BlueskyArtShow #Light #Photography Somewhere in Norway. Damn it was cold.
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Rachel Poulton @rachelpoultonphoto.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Imbolc blessings and wanders up at Chanctonbury Ring, one of Sussex’s ancient hill forts with the most uncanny vibes. I’m doing a talk all about this spirited place tomorrow at The Yellow Book Bar in Brighton. #imbolc #chanctonburyring #folklore #landscape #landscapephotography
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Wind Spiral II (2006) by Australian artist Bronwyn Berman #WomensArt
Photo of an outdoor sculpture  festuring a curved hollow horn-like structure created with organic material in strands and wire, held up by Y shaped wood props, the sculpture is situated on a rocky surface next the sea and under a sky at sunset or dawn
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Dr Anne E Bailey @anneebailey1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For #CaminoTuesday fans and followers: tomorrow's theme is MEMORIALS along the #CaminodeSantiago ! 👣#pilgrimage
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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#MosaicMonday this week features an extraordinary #mosaic wall panel from #Pompeii via #Naples. The amazingly rich effect of wall mosaics was due in part to their reduced exposure to wear and tear, unlike floor mosaics, and in part to their material, #glass rather than stone.
PANEL WITH CUPID, 50-79 CE. MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI

This pilaster-like glass mosaic panel and its near-identical pair were found, according to general consensus, in the so-called House of Julius Polybius, part of the huge Insula Occidentalis in Pompeii. It was excavated in the C18 and was heavily restored, framed, and moved into the royal collections of Naples. All the restoration makes the outer frames look fake - certainly the outermost striated red marble surround is C18, as is much of the grey and white guilloche border. The innermost frame of gold lines of a stylised peltae pattern on a green background with red scales and radiating gold lines is more authentic and idiosyncratic. The main field is blue, with a tall gold candelabrum holding up a red panel with an Eros hunting a deer. The whole piece has a great decorative grandeur appropriate for a wealthy C1 CE domus.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Yes!
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Henry Long @henrylong9.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Inside the mausoleum at Sir John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery. #SundayYellow #StainedGlassSunday
Yellow lights at the top of a building,  from the inside.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Snowdrop time! And here's a link to (IMO) the best snowdrop garden in England... www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/snowdrop-ope...
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Snowdrop Open Days – Colesbourne Park
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babsspence.bsky.social @babsspence.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Quite early this year, I think - Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis, in yesterday's sunshine, Radnage churchyard, Bucks, #wildflowerhour
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BSBI Scotland @bsbiscotland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Did you know that Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) aren’t native, but an introduction from Europe first recorded in the wild here in 1778? Another fun fact - the highest Snowdrops recorded in Britain were at 1,345 ft, above Ullswater in the Lakes. #wildflowerhour plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Snowdrops under a hedge near Doune, West Perthshire. In the failing light a black and white filter gave the photo an interesting look
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@PurbeckWild @purbeckwild.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ah, the marzipan scent of Winter Heliotrope! Which reminds me: there's still a chunk of Christmas cake left. #wildflowerhour #heliotrope #winterwatch #ukflora
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iDoc @idoc2020.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Patterns become images -Church of Santo Antonio Dos Congregados, Porto, Portugal #BlueskyArtShow #Pattern #Portugal
A beautifully decorated church featuring blue and white tiles portraying various religious scenes. The building stands at a street corner, surrounded by shops and pedestrians. Some people walk along the crosswalk, while cars are parked along the street.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Re-posting for #SundayYellow
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Love this! here's something else in an architectural alcove... (Ik hou hiervan! hier is nog iets anders in een architecturale nis...)
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This week's theme, danger ⚠️🚧 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDanger #SundayYellow Reposting with a suggestion that your signwriters don't know what true danger is.... 😀
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Ruth Elleson @ruthelleson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I do wish HMRC would enable their systems to recognise who’s already done their tax return and settled their bill, and switch off the constant reminder emails that keep appearing until the deadline. I sorted mine the week before Christmas, and yet break into a cold sweat whenever I get one of these.
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Pirritin @pirritin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
#SundayYellow #Photography #Snow #Trees #Winter
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/01/2025
Henry Gilpin, 'Highway 1' (Big Sur, California) 1965
photo a twisting roadthrough steep hills by the sea
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Hélène Cook Photo 📷 @helene-cook.eu · 25/01/2025
👋The #bluesky at #bluehour through the magnificent #stainedglass ceiling of the newly renovated Grand Hotel Astoria in #brussels #bruxelles #BlueSkyArtShow #Pattern #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #photographers #urbanphotography #architecturephotography 📸 © helene-cook.eu
Lookup symetrical view of the magnificent stained-glass ceiling of the newly renovated Grand Hotel Astoria in Brussels at blue hour. This majestic structure features floral motifs and intricate arabesques.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#FowlFriday (?) Fascinating article on pigeon racing in #Belgium! (Really). apnews.com/article/pige... I had no idea that Belgium was the top pigeon-racing nation in the world. Presumably @joukesp.bsky.social does? 😀
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Belgium's pastoral pastime of pigeon racing faces high anxiety over crime wave
Belgium’s once pastoral pastime of pigeon racing has come to this: Drones swoop over lofts where valuable birds are housed to look for security weaknesses, laser sensors set off alarms at night and ca...
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Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Early Ninian Comper (Bucknell & Comper) covered similar ground to Burlison & Grylls. They too made use of the St Bartholomew Altarpiece more than once. This Cecilia at St Dunstan's, West Peckham, with a memorial date of 1898, falls between the two by Comper above. 📷 @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Lamb's tails (hazel/cobnut/filbert catkins) in the gloom
Yellowish red catkins hanging from bare branchea on a gloomy morning
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Apologies if this appears twice. Otherwise, here's another lovely sculpture in Hoorn, the Netherlands, that is immersed in water. Maybe @Joukesp can translate?
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Absolument, ma chère. Bienvenue à BlueSky! Couldn't agree more with the sentiment. Here's a pretty Belgian manège for you.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Hurrah! I'm smug this year as I've just done my HMRC tax return AND paid. Good luck to all my fellow procrastinators - I've been there and feel your pain.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Wassail! Here's a vid from South Oxfordshire.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#BridgesThursday Following on from a previous pic from a journey on the Vale of Rheidol Railway to the Devil's Bridge, here's two (or more?) of the many bridges.
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Cool!
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#IronworkThursday Here's the small but perfectly formed #Clevedon pier, #Somerset. John Betjeman rated it "The most beautiful pier in England". Their website's pretty inspiring too... clevedonpier.co.uk
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IFAW_Camino @ifaw-camino.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#WaterfallWednesday That's properly fantastic! Thanks for posting.
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GonzoCubFan @gonzocubfan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Glencar Falls (County Leitrim, Ireland) #WaterfallWednesday From W.B. Yates' poem, The Stolen Child: "Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In pools among the rushes That scarce could bathe a star," #photography #waterfall #landscape #NaturePhotography #longexposure
Glencar Falls in County Leitrim, Ireland
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St Columba’s Church of Scotland @londonkirk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This Sunday 19 January at 13.30. The Sounds of St Columba’s first FREE concert of 2025. Join us for this wonderful opportunity to hear baritone Efim Zavalny, soprano Gulshan Akin and pianist Rebekka Magomedova. We are so looking forward to hearing them and their exciting program. More info ⬇️
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