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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 1h

It is #WorldAnimalDay. I wonder if they have been told? I asked the new village resident, who shares a field with donkeys Mildred and Georgie (we haven't been formally introduced, so I don't know his name, yet) and I have it from the horse's mouth that they did not get the invite. How rude.

Briwn horse approaching for a chat. When told about the special day of which he was unaware, he turned upon his hooves and left. Can't say I blame him. Digger in background but we did that yesterday.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 4h

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery I had to do it. A #Robin #ForJanet about to hop behind the giant tyre of the machine that gets me around town and country and I call Kia. Not original but it suits.

A European Robin redbreast stands in the redbrick drive next to my car, dwarfed by one of the tyres.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 6h

Hello friends! Happy #StunDay, #ImageAndVerse, & #BlueBrewBooks Sunday! How are you? 🙋‍♂️ It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EDST here and ☁️. I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew for the community here in the coffeehouse. Who’d like a cup? ☕️ Please do stop by & say hello! 👋 We close at 10:30am 🕥 EDST 😊 #ECK

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Pouring Coffee Time

Alt: Coffee is being poured continuously into a seemingly bottomless white cup

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 9h

#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Macro #MacroPhotography #Bee #WeeBee #Photography #ECK Parachuting into October with fabulous abandon 🐝🪂

A close-up of a black and golden bumblebee hovering just above pale purple flowers, its legs dangling and long tongue extended. Fine hairs catch the light, and a translucent wing stretches towards the upper left against a softly blurred green and lilac background.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 8h

#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Urban #StreetScape #SundaySharing #Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #ECK Love the juxtaposition of the serenity of sunset framing the urban focus of a London bus and wall art 😁😊

A red double-decker bus travels along a tree-lined road beneath a dramatic sunset, with blazing gold and orange clouds sweeping across a deep blue-grey sky. A graffiti-covered wall fills the foreground.

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observethedate.bsky.social @observethedate.bsky.social · 8h

...Sunday 4 October 2026 continued #OTD 90 years ago, The Battle of Cable Street, London. The British Union of Fascists marched through the East End of London. Anti-fascist demonstrators & local people forced them to retreat. 💪🏽 Continues.../

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Merisi Vienna @merisi-vienna.bsky.social · 7h

VIENNESE ESCAPES Gosau Lake in the Morning Sun Salzkammergut Gosau Valley, Upper Austria Image © Merisi Vienna #EastCoastKing #ECK#Photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Autumn #Stunday

A dark green lake surrounded by woods and further back a mountain range.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 03/10/2026

#Libraries are my favorite Third Place that isn't the woods. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #3rdPlace all day Saturday. Link to the feed in comments. #photography #woodwork #antiques #cardcatalog

An drawer in an old wooden library card catalog with brass pulls and a missing label.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 03/10/2026

I finally got my site updated after a year of not doing it and then somehow password protected it. It's properly open now and with almost 250 new images. Although you might recognize a lot of them. I'd love it if you had a look around! www.churchstreetimages.com

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Church Street Images

Jon Dayton, photographer in Western New York. Landsdape, nature, wildlife, architecture, and so on. Exhibits | Prints for Sale | Portraits by request.

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Robert Loves Photography @robertspictures.bsky.social · 14h

#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography #ArtChallenge #ImageAndVerse Riding along on a carousel Trying to catch up to you Riding along on a carousel Will I catch up to you?

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Robert Loves Photography @robertspictures.bsky.social · 13h

#SundayShout-Out #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography The - in my very subjective eyes - most stunning photos of the week 27/9 - 3/10 among the photos published by the photography accounts who I follow and who follow me. A maximum of one photo per account. Prepare to be amazed. 1/x

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning Bluesky friends. I hope you have a beautiful day … the kind of which is promised here in South-East England later with clear skies and a vanishing Moon as the sun comes up at 7. #Scape #Moon #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky #Photography #DailyArt #Art

A watercolour blue sky with wispy pink-tinged clouds at the lower edge of the frame. Faintly visible is the waning Moon to the top right as a jet leaves a vapour trail at top left.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 17h

Some fell on stony ground. Sweet Chestnut in prickly green casing, lying where it fell in a village lane, waiting to be squished by a car. #SensoryArt #Roads #AOFoto #Nature #ColorADay #GreenSat #ECK #Photography

Sweet Chestnut inside this green prickly wrapper. Proof against inquisitive small animals but no match for cars, which use the village lane where it had fallen from a tree, hoping to find a better landing. Also shown to the left are a lichen-covered twig and some "aeroplane" seedlings - possibly Sycamore.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 18h

You heard our Starship Captain, set your Sunday phaser posts to stun. Prepare to boldly go and be amazed at the talent out there in the Bluesky universe.

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 20h

#spiderweb 🕸️💛

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 20h

#3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtShow So little time left and many choices I could make but I'll choose one. Our favourite places were by the sea. Both my lovely Janet and I both grew up near it. So … Norfolk or Pembrokeshire? Wales wins this time. I am called Jones, after all. 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #ECK #Photography #Beach

My wife, dressed in sun hat, red T-shirt, purple trousers and red trainers, walks across the sands at low tide with green hills and fields in the distance. To the left. sand dunes give way to a grassed area and a links golf course.
Camera: iPhone XS.

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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today is #BuyBritishDay And now so many of us can no longer ship overseas it would be great if the #British could support Independent #SmallBusiness We have no advertising budgets. We rely on Reposts to seek New Customers so please help us find them here 🫶 misheleneous.etsy.com #Etsy #Manchester

A collage of 6 colour images showing handmade products for Home and Hound by misheleneous in Manchester. Including dog bandanas, toy bones, brooches, ornaments and bunting

A collage of 6 colour images showing handmade products for Home and Hound by misheleneous in Manchester. Including dog bandanas, toy bones, bag charms, christmas ornaments, keyrings and bunting

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 22h

#3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtShow My next choice is vaguer: Europe and it stands for all we lost with the crass decision to leave the European Union. In 1972, a year before we had joined, my lovely wife and I travelled through the Continent in a VW camper. It was a joyful experience. #ECK #Photography

A familiar picture to my followers. My wife and I sit in the open door of our little red VW T2 campervan in a clearing in forested land in Sweden, late summer of 1972. Me, younger, ginger hair and beard, wearing a blue Peanuts T-shirt and jeans, my blonde wife, smiling as ever, in blue blouse and slacks and holding on to my skinny arm in case I take off.
Picture courtesy of her brother, who had joined us for a few weeks with his girlfriend. They occupied the tent that is seen stored on the rear roof rack under a blue tarp and behind the white raising roof.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 22h

#3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtShow The next phase of my life's journey was back towards my family roots in Wirral, across the Mersey and within sight of the land of our fathers. It was also the place where I quickly lost my heart and wed. My next choice: a view across the Dee to Wales. #ECK #Photography

The Dee estuary at sunset, the tide ebbing. Low cloud hovers on the horizon that is coloured gold and yellow. Above, the sky is softly blue. Low on the left, the last of North Wales sinks towards the Irish Sea.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 23h

#3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtShow I have given this some thought today. I've lived a long time, in many places, visited others. Fallen in love with a few and they hold memories engraved on my mind and heart. So, now I shall begin at the beginning. My city. Liverpool. #ECK #Photography #ClassicMono

A tourist poses with the statue of the Beatles at Pierhead, Liverpool, ignoring the majestic and famous Liver Building that was once the city's symbol that was recognised worldwide - the first and last of Liverpool seen by passengers on the great trans Atlantic liners.
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 23h

“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?” – Jack Kornfield #ShowHeart . #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A heart-shaped leaf catches a ray of sunlight. At its tip a small, purple Michaelmas Daisy bends forward towards it.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 23h

#BirdOfTheDay and Alan @alan678.bsky.social has chosen #Black&Red and #LongBeak birds as the Alt. I have included Roberto Robin redbreast as he has a black eye 😁 plus a Little Egret, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Grey Heron. #Robin #ForJanet #ECK #Photography #Wildlife #NatureTherapy #BirdLife

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Byron

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I got this. Emmetts Garden a National Trust property in a nearby town in Kent that my lovely wife and I visited so often we thought it our own. I continue to visit, now she is no longer here. Tulip time our favourite. #3rdPlace #BlueSkyArtShow #Garden #Tulips #ForJanet #ECK #Photography

A bed of pink and black tulips in an orchard overlooking a field and trees with valley beyond and a blue sky.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Susan Davis Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello friends & happy #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday, with the theme of #3rdPlace. How are you?🙋 It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EDST here and ☀️. I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew coffee for the coffeehouse community. Who’d like a cup? ☕️ Please do stop by & say hello!👋 We close at 10:30am 🕥 EDST😊 #ECK

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Pouring Coffee Time

Alt: Coffee is being poured continuously into a seemingly bottomless white cup

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just went up the garden after the cacophony of tree felling had stopped and the #Bees had decided it was safe to return. A #WeeBee gets stuck in on the big daddy blue Ceratostigma/Plumbago plant. #ColorADay #GreenSat #MacroPhotography #ECK #Insects #PhotographersOfBluesky #Nature #Wildlife

A Common Carder Bee, with fuzzy cardamon coloured top and stripey black and yellow abdomen, buries itself in a blue flower surrounded by green leaves. The insects delicate veined wings are open, ready for flight, glistening in the light. Up top, the antennae and tongue are working hard to get at the nectar.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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🏳️‍⚧️Mel💜they/them🏳️‍⚧️ @meltheparadox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Saturday, Gorgeous Stars🌟 I hope everyone is doing well today.🫂🫶🏻☃️ 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🤍🖤 I’m ok. Just wanted to share this beautiful sunrise with y’all before I start a day of relaxation, self love and preparing for Monday. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🤍🖤 Take care of yourselves🌈✨🫶🏻🌻 Have a day that’s perfect for you 🌟💛🤗

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mean green machine. A tree surgeon uses a chainsaw to hack down a hedge that had grown into a small forest at the end of a neighbour's garden this morning. Very noisy for a Saturday morning and the birds did not like it. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachines #ColorADay #GreenSat #ECK #Photography

A worker, in safety helmet and harness, strapped to the thin trunk of a tree and with a chainsaw hanging from his belt, stops to contemplate his next move. The branches of the overgrown Cypress Leylandii hedge, that had over the years become a small forest, surround the tree surgeon. People often plant this variety as a quick-growing hedge and then neglect to keep it under control. This is often the result.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Graze on, it's a crazy feeling. Mildred and Georgie, the village's rescue donkeys, seem untroubled by the big green digger being operated just behind them in their field. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachines #ColorADay #GreenSat #ECK #Photography

Two donkeys, one white, on the left, the other, darker, graze in field while a worker uses a green machine behind them to dig a hole by a fence. Beyond the digger, the field is lined with green trees and, above, the sky is filled with grey and white cloud with some blue showing.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Robin sings in a neighbour's tree each morning but I think he spotted me photographing him and gave me the stare. No more songs until you top up that feeder, lazy boy. #SmallBirdSaturday #Robin #ForJanet #ColorADay #GreenSat #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #Birdwatching #ECK

A small Eurasian Robin perched high on the branches of a green leafy tree in front of terrace houses in the morning sun.
Camera: Canon EOS 400D digital Tamron 55-200mm lens.

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Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Morning #BlueSky ☕️ Is this another thinly veiled excuse to show a picture of the pups or is it matching today’s theme of where l come in the pecking order? Have a great day friends ☺️ #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #3rdPlace #Photography #PhotographyOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #BlueSkyDogs #BillAndTed

Our photograph shows two small dogs sitting together on a large, plush turquoise armchair in a warmly lit room.

Ted, on the left, is a small, fluffy dog with golden-brown and cream fur. He has a mostly white face with warm tan markings around his ears and forehead, large dark eyes, and a black nose.

His ears are floppy and slightly feathered. Ted is sitting at an angle, with one front paw resting over the edge of a deep blue cushion. He looks directly towards the camera with a gentle, alert expression.

Bill, on the right, is a smaller black dog with distinctive tan and white markings. He has upright, pointed ears, a white muzzle and chest, and tan markings above his eyes, on his cheeks and legs.

His fluffy tail rises behind him, curling upwards. Bill is sitting upright beside Ted, looking straight at the camera with a curious, confident expression.

The dogs are nestled closely together on the chair, partly surrounded by blue and turquoise cushions. The chair’s soft, oversized upholstery creates a cosy setting.

Behind them are windows with pale blinds, a leafy green houseplant and a decorative object. Beneath the chair is a polished wooden floor, adding warm golden-brown tones to the scene.

It is a warm and affectionate portrait of Ted and Bill together, looking proudly into the camera from their favourite cosy chair.

Finally, our picture today is finished with a simple white border frame.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

First #SixOnSaturday of October and something different. My house is tiny, the rear garden small but the front minuscule. Here is proof. The main picture is a narrow border crammed with colour. *Details in Alt text. #UKGardening #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky

From main picture, clockwise: the narrow shared border between my terrace home's front drive and my next door neighbour, who gives me free rein. White and pink Cosmos have returned from previous years. Blue Ceratostigmas were bought at the supermarket on offer and have spread. Recent additions include light lavender coloured Ageratum (for the bees) and a rusty red Echinacea. Old friends are a rambling rose that once climbed a fence that is no longer there; yellow flowers on a Honeysuckle, that's on a fence that survived between my property and my other neighbour; purple Pansies in a blue pot that has been planted with Spring flowering Tulip bulbs; pink and white Hydrangea blooms that were all but dead during the drought but are struggling back to life now, by the bird feeders; Michaelmas Daisies by my green front door; a close-up of the Ceratostigma flowers, also known as Plumbago.
Maybe next week I shall do a tour of my vast estate out back. 😂
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 28/09/2026

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow Saturday October 3, 2026 The theme is #3rdPlace The pub? The park? Church? Anywhere you frequent that isn't home or work. Use both tags to be included in the feed. Multiple entries welcome. #art #artists #photography #drawing #painting #sketching #writing #poetry

Front of a cafe at night with text reading:
Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday October 3, 2026
The theme is #3rdPlace
Any Art. Any interpretation.
Use both tags to be
included in our feed.
Multiple entries welcome.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Macro #MacroPhotography #Photography #Wee #WeeBee #Bokeh #BloomScrolling #ECK Punk in the park Hiding in plain sight Half a petal, half a peek 🐝💐😁😉

A close-up of a golden-haired bumblebee peeking from behind an upright purple flower petal, which hides most of its face. Black antennae reach above the petal, and a translucent, finely veined wing extends to the right. The bee and central petal stand out against softly blurred purple flowers and green foliage. Edited for definition and slight straightening.

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Aj d'Wit (Audrey) @audjde.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From the prompt, 'What the Wind Carries', I crafted this piece. I surprised myself, as to where this prompt took me. #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP58 #poetry #poetryCommunity #ECK #Grief #SangAnew #Rebirth

Image: Thin, stretched, wispy white clouds in a blue sky. The bottom of the image is a golden yellow colour.

Text:

Rebirth

From the beyond
threaded through a
million, million
particles of air
a song
faint
ethereal
floated
upon the
gentlest
of breezes
ascending
descending

eyes closed
slowed heart beat
I surrendered
to my sense of
hearing
as the song
grew louder
then quietly dipped
luring my soul
onwards
as one whose
thirst
needed to be
quenched
by those
other-worldly
notes to survive

momentarily
the song
disappeared
plunging
my soul into
a valley of
despair
life’s colours
turned to
ashen grey
every part of me
yearned
for the
song’s return
for it had
captured me
enraptured me

like a newborn’s
first breath
the song
re-emerged
within every
cell of my being
imprinting its
harmonies
inside my DNA
remaking
recreating me

from the
clutches
of grief
the song
of life
sang me anew

© Aj d’Wit - 3 October 2026

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✮ 𝒥𝒶𝓃𝑒 ✮ @janesgallery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ready, set, here we go Post your #LittleOnes for everyone to enjoy this Saturday 👇 #SmallBirdSaturday Blue Tit #BirdPhotography #Birds #Nature #Birding #birdwatching #ECK

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning folks. Yes its @alan678.bsky.social turn to host today's #BirdOfTheDay, and his theme is #Black&Red, any bird with Black & Red in its plumage. The Alt theme is #LongBeak, birds with long beaks. #birds #ECK #photography #ukbirding #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #NatureTherapy #BirdLife

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pm gibbs @pmgibbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I give you calm water late afternoon light if not for kindnesses found under this blue sky I’d be an aimless wanderer Hugs & love to all pass it along when you can I know you will ❤️ cause that’s who we are givers of kindnesses

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The local bin lorries (garbage trucks) all have names chosen by ratepayers. Binderella goes past one of the mighty Oaks and the sign on our village green this afternoon. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMachinery #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri #ECK #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky

The waste lorry named Binderella swings past one of the Oak trees at the corner of the green and nears the wrought iron sign that bears the village name plus a depiction of a shepherd with his flock and dog. The sky is filled with white fluffy clouds.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I walked across the village green this afternoon and, after the days of drought, it has now returned to its normal preferred colours … with some exceptions. It is, after all, October and today is #FungiFriday, so here is what I found in a few short steps. #ECK #Nature #PhotographersOfBluesky

Fungi all the way plus one of the mighty Oaks in a corner of the green. The roots around these big trees are happy hunting grounds for fungi, as are the leaf-strewn ditches alongside the road. I'm not an expert, so I leave the naming of these fungi to others.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some nights the view from my little back garden in a small English village is worth a billion pounds to me. Sky on fire a couple of minutes ago. This morning it was the Moon putting on a show and now the Sun has decided he ain't going to be upstaged by that gal. #Scape #Sunset #Sunset #Photography

Staggeringly fiery sky as the sun goes down, turning trees to black silhouetted onlookers.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Moths matter! 📢 Which is why we're on a mission to create the first official Red List of Britain’s Macro-moths Without this formal recognition, species risk being overlooked when national, regional and local decisions about conservation priorities and funding are made. 📷: Rob Blanken

Close-up of a Garden Tiger moth facing directly at the camera while clinging to a branch against a green background.

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