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Laurette

@laurette1.bsky.social
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I live in the Surrey Hills in the UK. Happily married for many years. European/British/English Love Art, Music, Nature, Photography and follow politics closely. All photos I post are taken by me except reposts. No DMs

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 1h
Two swans on the river Wey in Godalming this morning. #Scape #Landscape #Riverscape #Swans #Reflections #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 4h
Line and wash watercolour painting of a walk in the Surrey Hills. #WatercolourPainting #WatercolorPainting #MixedMedia #Scape #Treescape #ForestFriday #Art
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 5h
Michaelmas daisies at Petworth. #FlowersonFriday #FloralFriday #Bloomscrolling #PurpleFriday
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 7h
A less manicured part of the lake at Petworth. #Scape #Treescape #Waterscape #Landscape #WestSussex #Photography
A boggy area at one end of the lake. Floating pennywort on the lake which has been cleared from a large area of the water.Two conifers on a little island.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 7h
Black Swan at Benbow Pond, West Sussex for #BirdoftheDay #BestBeaks #WestSussex #Swans #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 7h
Walking at Linchmere, West Sussex this week. Silver Birch trees illuminated by the sun. #Scape #Treescape #Landscape #ForestFriday #WestSussex #Photography
Beautiful blue sky and shadows on the woodland floor.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 7h
The old Watermill at Bosham which originated from the 18C and is now used by the yacht club. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #Scape #Villagescape #Waterscape #WestSussex #Photography #Reflections
A tidal watermill with the tide in. Reflections on the water and a view of the church on the right.
The mill stream is reported to be where the 11C King Canute’s daughter drowned.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 8h
Blue boats at Bosham. Last Friday in West Sussex. #Scape #Seascape #Landscape #WestSussex #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 21h
An October photo of Grasmere for #NationalPoetryDay “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors the sky.” From W B Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole #October #LakeDistrict #Autumn #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Reflections
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


Brian Bilston
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s great when people dress to match the environment.😊 End of September at Hidcote in the Cotswolds. #HumansofBlueSky #Palacesandgardens #ItsaJungleoutThere #Gardens #Landscape #Autumn #Fall #Photography
A man dressed in brown and green walks down beautiful path surrounded mainly by hydrangeas and variety of foliage
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Levant mine and Beam Engine, Cornwall. Part of the Cornish Mining World HeritageCoast. (Some history in ALT) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #Cornwall #History #Landscape #Photography
At first the men spent a third of the shift getting up and down the mine shaft before a steam driven beam engine was introduced. It enabled miners to move up and down on moving ladders because the shaft was crooked and cages could not be used. Mining copper at Levant started in 1787. In the 19C the mining was mainly for tin.The mine is at St Just not far from Land’s End.
The shaft went down 310 metres.
The mines stretched out 1.5 miles, 2.5 km, under the sea and reached depths of 600 to 640 metres!In 1919 a rod and beam broke and at the time approx 140 men were using the shaft which was run by the man-engine moving the ladders up and down.
31 miners died and many more were injured.
The man-engine was never repaired and work ceased at Levant’ s deepest shaft.
Mining did continue up until 1930.
 The steam engine was restored and opened by the National Trust in 1992.
Many volunteers work to maintain this amazing piece of history.
Seeing the engine room and hearing the history brought home to me the danger in the industry. 
There is a later part of the mine built in the 1960s which you can view part of by going down steps, that mine used cages. I didn’t go down as I’m a bit claustrophobic !
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Train engine on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Steam Railway Line in the Lake District. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #Railways #Trains #LakeDistrict #Photography
The line is known as “La’al Ratty”.
It is a 15 inch minimum-gauge heritage railway in Cumbria.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Early October last year at Winkworth Arboretum. #SurreyHills #Trees #PalacesandGardens #ItsaJungleOutThere #Autumn #Fall #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Coot #BirdoftheDay #BlackandWhite #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Early autumn at Hidcote in the Cotswolds. This area packed with plants. #Cotswolds #Gardens #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #PalacesandGardens #ItsaJungleoutThere #Autumn #Fall #Landscape #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Fourphotosonemonth September 2026 2 ponds and 2 sunrises
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is this a Katsura Tree or a Black gum tree ? I’ve just deleted my 1st post of this because my iPad has made me question what it is. It is part of a tree at Sheffield Park. They have both types there. Anyway it has highly colourful leaves in autumn. #Abstractia #Leaves #Autumn #Fall #EastSussex
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Photo of The Mill at Elstead now a converted pub in the Surrey Hills and the mill wheel. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #SurreyHills #Pubs #Photography #Autumn #Fall
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Autumn now and autumn yet to come. The rotunda at Petworth with an acer,maple, tree on the left that I particularly like. 1. Sept this year 2. Oct last year 3&4. Nov 2016 4. Is a more distant view. #WestSussex #Trees #Autumn #Fall #ColorADay #RedWed #Leaves #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As Bob Ross might have said, “A happy little tree”. This one is dancing in the middle of a circle of other trees at Winkworth Arboretum. #SurreyHills #Trees #ColorADay #RedWed #Autumn #Fall #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fallen leaves in the garden. My photo from last year as autumn is not quite this advanced here yet. #Abstractia #Leaves #Autumn #Fall #Photography #ColorADay #RedWed
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A bar-headed goose at The Heath, Petersfield last week. A ringed bird from Asia which I have seen in the distance there once before. Possible exotic escapee or unusual UK visitor. #BirdoftheDay #BestoftheMonth #Geese #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mill Wheel at the 19C Old Mill in Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #ColorADay #BlueTue #Cotswolds #Reflections #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Red Acer, Maple, leaves framing yesterday evening’s sunset. #Abstractia #Leaves #Sunsets #Skies #ColorADay #BlueTue #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Greylag goose posing for a photo with other geese wanting to be in the shot. At the Heath, Petersfield last week. #BirdoftheDay #EFG #Geese #Hampshire #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Anchor Bleu Inn in Bosham with a blue bicycle and blue cloudy sky. #ColorADay #BlueTue #WestSussex #Coastal #Photography #Pubs #Inns #Photography
When the tide is in, which it was, the inn is right on the water. There is a terrace at the back,where you can sit and overlook the water, which we did.😊
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On the way to Bosham on Friday a stop off at the Weald and Downland museum’s cafe ☕️🧁overlooking the pond and the Pevensey Wind Pump (Windmill). A rare wooden wind-powered pumping mill,19C. #WestSussex #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #Reflections #Landscape #Photography
It was used to pump water out of clay pits. 
It was moved to the museum in 1975.
Reflections of the mill and trees on the water.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Walking round the lake at Buttermere with a rocky and mossy bank at this point and the water a beautiful blue. A young oak in autumn colours growing diagonally over the edge. #LakeDistrict #RockinTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #Landscape #Photography #Autumn #Fall
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tide’s In andTide’s Out 1. Photo of the sky reflected on the water at Bosham on Friday. 2. From a previous visit where the tide was out and we could walk to the other side of the inlet. #TidesoutTuesday #Coastal #Landscape #WestSussex #Reflections #Photography
On the left some houses from the village can be seen. On the opposite is a line of trees.Almost the same view but with the tide out.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Old chestnut tree weighed down by its own produce at Petworth on Saturday. #ThickTrunkTuesday #TreeoftheDay #WestSussex #Photography #Trees
Tree covered in chestnuts.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A rather beautiful sunset this evening. #Sunsets #Skies #SurreyHills #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Swan #BirdoftheDay #AwkwardAvian #Swan #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Posy in a little jar.🕶️ Leaves, flowers, grasses and berries from the garden. #Abstractia #Leaves #ColorADay #PinkMon #Autumn #Fall #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coot forming circular ripples on Heath Pond, Petersfield last week. #BlueSkyMonday #Reflections #Waterbirds #Hampshire #Landscape #Photography
Beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds reflected on the water and distorted by ripples. Trees and bushes line the bank in the distance. There is a line of Canada Geese in the background. A coot is in the foreground in the middle of the ripples.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pink roses with rose hips. #ColorADay #PinkMonday #Roses #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looking towards Haystacks at one end of Buttermere in the Lake District. The rust coloured bracken on the fells is glowing in the autumn sun and reflected on the lake. A beautiful line of trees runs across this end of the lake. #LakeDistrict #Autumn #Fall #Reflections #MountainMonday #Photography
Buttermere is an absolutely beautiful lake and on this day one autumn was looking amazing in the light. 
In the foreground are golden grass and evergreen shrubs. On the lake is a reflection of the fells and the line of trees. At this end the fells loom over the lake.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At Weald and Downland Living Museum a hexagonal brick and stone building housing a 19C Pugmill which was used for mixing & churning clay to make handmade bricks. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #History #WestSussex #Photography
The building was moved from Redford in Sussex to the open air museum.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reflections of trees on the lake at Petworth on Saturday with golden foliage on the ground in the foreground and a gold/green willow on the left. #BlueSkyMonday #Landscape #Autumn #Fall #Reflections #Photography #WestSussex
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Black-headed gulls at Bosham on Friday and a #Twofer #BirdoftheDay #Airborne #Seabirds #Coastal #Gulls #Landscape #Photography
In the foreground are gulls on the water and flying near the water The opposite side of the inlet is on silhouette. On the left a boat is on the water and in the foreground on the left sea grasses.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Waking along a path surrounded by trees, many with golden tinges of autumn, yesterday. #WestSussex #Trees #Autumn #Fall #Photography #Landscape
Path in the ground of Petworth House surrounded by different varieties of trees  with deciduous trees showing signs of Autumn.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As I have posted a few photos from Bosham, after a visit there on Friday, I thought I would post this one. It’s of the house I posted a reflection of earlier today taken one June. The house is next to a chalk millstream and overlooks the harbour. #Stunday #Roses #WestSussex #Photography #Villages
The village of Bosham which lies on an inlet of Chichester harbour. The house on the left with beautiful roses tumbling over the wall is the one I posted a reflection of earlier today.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“And there where the trees were no longer trees, nor the road a road The deer had come for me.” from The Roe Deer by Ted Hughes. A deer near the lake at Petworth yesterday.(Actually a Fallow Deer) #ImageandVerse #Deer #Stunday #Landscape #WestSussex #SouthDowns
A beautiful Fallow Deer running across my path at Petworth yesterday.
I saw many deer yesterday probably because the chestnuts were falling from the trees. They love them, me too.A view of the deer and the South Downs.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Swans and cygnets on the water in Bosham, West Sussex, on Friday. #Swans #Swanday #Stunday #Photography #Landscape
Bosham is a village and lies on one of the inlets of Chichester Harbour.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reflections on a crystal clear chalk millstream in Bosham. #Reflections #WestSussex #Photography #Stunday
The house reflected on the water overlooks the harbour.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Canada Geese flying over more geese on the lake in the grounds of Petworth House, West Sussex, yesterday. In the background is the stone boathouse from circa 1758 It was in one of Turner’s paintings from 1810. #BirdoftheDay #Airborne #Geese #WestSussex #Stunday #Photography #Landscape
I was so lucky to see lots of bird life yesterday including loads of geese, cormorants, 2 herons, coots and in the distance a great white egret.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Posy in a little jar. Flowers, leaves and berries from the garden. #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #ColorADay #OrangeSun #SundayYellow #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s 2.30 in the morning and although the full moon was on Friday the sky is very light. No idea why I’m wide awake looking at it! #Skies #Night #Photography
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pink sunset over the sea in West Sussex, lights running along Worthing Pier and the word Amusements lit up in red neon lights. #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #Sunsets #Coastal #Photography #WestSussex
This was a very cold mid January evening.
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lights and reflections from Golden Jubilee Bridge, PwC building above Charing Cross Station and lamppost with festoon lights along the South Bank in London. #Abstractia #Geometric #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #London #Night #Photography
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