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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸

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Public Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer: memoir, poetry, children’s stories. Identiplant, AI, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid 🇪🇺N Ireland 🐸 Resist Blue Sky 3/9/23 🚫🚫b0ts, zero posts, accounts with ++b0ts following, no biog

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1h
Annoyed with Timmy->Tammy. My cat is called Tammy. Her name should not be in his mouth.
Monochrome image of the head of a black cat looking very serious
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here is a screen shot from my Facebook page, from some years ago. I find so many of the few flowers I grow favour bees, it is great to see this favours hover flies
Close up of a blue love in the mist flower with visiting hover fly
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Posting early #FavouritePlant 2026, has to be #Daisy Going to #Rathlin #Island to see the #Ireland #ClimateJustice #Candle #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ColorADay
Daisy (one) from side view against dark background Three daisies, two in flower and one starting to develop seed head. Remaining central flowers appear orange, and white bracts (“petals”) gone Daisy head, side view against dark background. Flowers gone and green cone with spiral pattern remainsTousled Daisy against blurry bacjground. White petals are pink underneath. Colours striking: pink, white, yellow, green
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Abundant #Seedheads on #Rathlin #Island this weekend. Architectural Tree Mallow & Common Hogweed seeds, 2 stripes one side, 3 other #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
Fawn coloured dry structures containing seeds. Three shown and each has star shape slits and fringe or frill of remains dry flower structures. Flat seeds held aloft all at same level. Pale fawn with tan coloured tint stripes
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Abundant #Seedheads on #Rathlin #Island this weekend. Ribwort Plantain & Green shieldbug. + Sea Radish #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
Grey background with one seedhead and at base a shield bug Mainly green photo with a few yellow small mainly wilted flowers and pea like structures containing seeds
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Abundant #Seedheads on #Rathlin #Island this weekend. Favourite, Red Valerian ‘pappus’ for seed dispersal like badminton shuttlecock. #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
2-3 small seeds with reddish sepals curled in on the plume of feathers to aid seed dispersal. And one full papaya with beached “feathers”
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Abundant #Seedheads on #Rathlin #Island this weekend. A 1st for me: Sea Club-Rush on the shore mainly fruiting, a few flowers. 🔻stem. #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
Rush like flower heads, brown with no petals - just lots of anthers - against a grey muddy sand background Dark brown fruiting heads sticking out from mainly one point on the stem - against a green background of many other fruiting heads of the same plant
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Abundant #Seedheads on #Rathlin #Island this weekend. Here Birds-foot Trefoil showing why it is called that! #Noticing #biodiversity #mindfulness #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
Seed dark brown pods of a small Legume splayed out looking like a birds foot
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Old Dunboe Graveyard & Church Ruins great for well established flowering #wallplants Several woody: privet + Buff-tail, Fuchsia magellanica, Bramble. Also Campion, Plantain, Fireweed #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Ribwort Plantain on old wall overlooking newer cemetery
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Old Dunboe Graveyard & Church Ruins great for well established flowering #wallplants Several woody: privet + Buff-tail, Fuchsia magellanica, Bramble. Also Campion, Plantain, Fireweed #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Privet with large Bumble feeding Close up of bramble flower to right and developing bramble fruit to left
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Old Dunboe Graveyard & Church Ruins great for well established flowering #wallplants Several woody: privet + Buff-tail, Fuchsia magellanica, Bramble. Also Campion, Plantain, Fireweed #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Wall lower right. Willowherb upper left. Distant shot Close up bright pink and purple Fuchsia flower with bright pink buds, and pale pink, almost purple small Herb Robert flower
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Old Dunboe Graveyard & Church Ruins great for well established flowering #wallplants Several woody: privet + Buff-tail, Fuchsia magellanica, Bramble. Also Campion, Plantain, Fireweed #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Female red Campion flower Two male red campion flowers
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Tammy the ships crew cat, looking stern
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Mayweed thriving despite drought #Sail #Sailing #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Large cluster of Mayweed flowers growing near the breakwater - a few boats show in upper part of photo - that is wether they unload the Scallops
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Ragwort is unofficially the national flower. Seen very little of it as it is strictly controlled #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
One plant of Ragwort flowering in front of seed heads of Perennial Sow Thistle with Peel Castle walls behind
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Wild Thyme and Sea Pink (Thrift) flowering on lower slopes of Peel #Hill very close to the sea #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
A close of of Wild Thyme flowers and leavesOne head of Thrift (Sea Pink) against a blue sky
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle A few flowers left on Tree Mallow with detail needing macro tomorrow & irresistible seed-heads #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
One purple Tree Mallow flower with almost luminous green anthers.  The flower is purple but seems pinkTree Mallow Seed heads with a pattern of five lines radiating towards centre of each head
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From Bangor #NI to #Peel #IsleofMan #IoM #Sailing with Ship’s Cat Grateful for light airs and slight sea. #Caturday 🐈‍⬛ #LongHair #Black #Cat 🐈‍⬛ #Tammy #Tamara #Adopt #CatsOfBlueSky #RescueCats #BornFeral
Black long haired cat sitting looking at viewer View at sea showing sailing yacht to left and Copeland island on horizon with a yellow and black cardinal nearby buoy showing we should steer to left of itView of morning sky behind breakwater at Bangor marina The black cat again, keeping a look out, laying flat and alert
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Drought #NI < England. All usual flowering just Himalayan Balsam wilting. Selfheal >tall than usual. #WildFlowerHour #StillFlowering @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #ImageAndVerse #JohnClare line in Summer Tints: "Beans lightly scorch'd" #Stunday #ECK
Himalayan Balsam leaves wilting where ground dry Selfheal seems taller than usual this year
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The screen shot still looks like wax model in Madame Tussauds
Trump still from video
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social South China Morning Post today has interesting poll on US for 250th - here a screen shot for you. Choices are Tech Renaissance (through AI) Graceful Decline Internal Attrition (from massive debt/extreme polarisation Isolationism Morph into unpredictable new paradigm
South China Morning Post today: poll on US for 250th screen shot. 

Choices are 
Tech Renaissance (through AI)
Graceful Decline
Internal Attrition (from massive debt/extreme polarisation
Isolationism
Morph into unpredictable new paradigm
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@drsmith.bsky.social The beginning of the end? Can't see all of this 30th June SCMP piece but pricing is going to bite usage on the posterior.
A screen shot of a short piece from the South China Morning Post on prices for Deep Seek AI usage being doubled
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Think this was sane yellow one:
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Wondering if there is enough in these to id please? @botany-jen.bsky.social Thank you for having a look
Purple flowered small thistle against green background of other plants Yellow flowered type of ragwort photographed in from if Bann River
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
First time I've seen the flowers of Elodea canadensis (Canadian waterweed). Most female in Brit & Ireland. Blocks waterways, forms monoculture mats. #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
One tiny pink female flower of a pondweed The leaves of this pondweed underwater shown against the green background of a Lily pad
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Himalayan Balsam (photos '25). Check before you "bash": concerns it may clear path for other noxious plants. 2M tall shades all other plants out. #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Mainly green stems reaching 2 m tall and some purple flowers in sunlight at top with trees above that One H balsam flower like a poor man’s orchid - quite a pretty pale purple flower
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Drone photo: Giant Hogweed, like white Chrysanthemums bouquet: #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek Tree tall. View: Riverside towards Mountsandel Wood, Coleraine Photo by partner Skip #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Photo from above, using drone showing edge of brown River Bann, small beach, woodland trees behind and a cluster of Giant Hogweed flowering with white heads. Enormously tall towering tall beside trees
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Drone photo of Giant Hogweed, like a white Chrysanthemums bouquet View: Riverside towards Mountsandel Wood, Coleraine Photo by partner Skip #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @npms.bsky.social
Photo from above, using drone showing edge of brown River Bann, small beach, woodland trees behind and a cluster of Giant Hogweed flowering with white heads. Enormously tall towering tall beside trees
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Apparently Fine Art and Atlas carrying the weight of the world. ???
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
beautiful breeze in N of #NI today, around 3 knots in my home & 21.5C #weather #heatwave @unofficialnewsni.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @barrabest.bsky.social t.bsky.social @stormhour.com @loveballymena.online @cmjohnston.bsky.social @annlizkelly.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The #bee "His feet are shod with gauze, His helmet is of gold; His breast, a single onyx With chrysoprase, inlaid." Emily Dickinson #Pollinatorpals #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"How doth the busy bee improve each shining hour, & gather honey all the day from every opening flower!" Isaac Watts #Rathlin Sea Radish #Pollinatorpals #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"to the bee a flower is a fountain of life" Kahlil Gibran from On Pleasure On Hawksbeard: Female Andrena sp confirmed by BWARS #Rathlin #Pollinatorpals #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This indeed! #Tammy #blackcat #catsofSky #longhair #yellow #sailing #crew @breeze420.bsky.social
Photo of long haired black cat with yellow eyes sitting peeking out from long grass with one yellow buttercup showing top left
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Scatter my ashes in blue of Speedwells and bird song. Enjoy sounds of Wren, Blackbird, Robin and Thrush #ChurchyardFlowers #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
From #Camus for #ChurchyardFlowers Elderflower #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "When the Elder Tree’s in flower...Summer’s really come again!" Cicely Mary Barker The Elder Flower Fairy #ImageandVerse
To left elder flowers, middle - a grave stone, behind both a yew tree for sorrow.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A favourite for #ChurchyardFlowers Stinking Iris #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "from the center of my life came a great fountain, deep blue shadows on azure seawater." Louise Glück #ImageandVerse
Two flowers of one of two native Irises - the other being Yellow Flag. It is pale blue and like a painting. The poet writes of the Wild Iris: 

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.

Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.

You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:

from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
2 for #ChurchyardFlowers ( #Rathlin #Island & #Camus ) Befitting a memorial Forget-me-nots #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "Seven blue gems, To set in the gold of my memory." #Untermeyer #ImageandVerse
Words from a poem called Forget-me-nots: 
The bank curved under its crown of forget-me-nots;
They shone like blue jewels from the further shore.
And they were free! I could have had them all
To gather and to carry in my arms!
But I took only a few,
Seven blue gems,
To set in the gold of my memory. Pale blue tiny flowers set against a grey wall: Forget-me-nots at a Churchyard
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
2 for #ChurchyardFlowers ( #Rathlin #Island & #Camus ) #Noticing quality of biodiversity & mindfulness. #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "sweet Daisy!...The Poet's darling." #Wordsworth #ImageandVerse
At the foot of Yew in a Church yard (Camus) - many daisies photographed from underneath them At the foot of tombstones on Rathlin one buttercup to left, the rest are daisies
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#Breaking “A federal judge on Monday declared a $100,000 fee that Donald #Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is #unlawful and must be invalidated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A screen shot of news item just released here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-invalidated?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I do have daisies with unidentified birdsong on a small island. But no owls!
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On #Rathlin Fox & Cubs (Devil's Paintbrush) #Lawnflowers #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #ECK #ImageAndVerse Lady Liberty "symbol of freedom & hope...every thought a paintbrush" Desirée Alvarez #ColorADay #OrangeSun
Orange flower sometimes called Devils paintbrush. The poet named write a book by same name. Quite is from her poem called Lady Liberty: “ Hot.
We need liberty in this city.
I always win but I never score.
Freedom is the lock to life that we need to open.
A great gift.
French people are nice.
She’s a girl.
Greener than money.
She is made out of copper.
The symbol of freedom and hope.
The symbol of “we made it.”
I am finally free from my torture and darkness. Free. Free. Free.
I can stand at the top and wonder what will happen if I just drop!!
They say it’s the land of the free.
I don’t trust buddies.
Love is not when you live with somebody. It’s when you live for somebody.
Even when I die, I’ll still keep you in mind.
Liberty is its name but it’ll never be the same.
It might sink or fall.
It might get flooded.
Sometimes all you have to do is breathe and keep it moving.
Time slips through our fingers.
Every person is an artist and every thought is a brush.”
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On #Rathlin seeding #Daisy for #Lawnflowers #Noticing #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageAndVerse "Thou long the Poet's praise shall gain" #Wordsworth #ColorADay #OrangeSun
Two blurry daisies bottom left and one almost central had no white “petals” left and is slightly orange not just yellow
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
On #Rathlin tousled #Daisy for #Lawnflowers #Noticing #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageAndVerse "Thou long the Poet's praise shall gain" #Wordsworth #LetItBloom #June
One daisy close with narrow depth so the grassy green background is burry.The outer white “petals” are pink underneath and curled back over the yellow central parts
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Suspecting Nettle has aphids & #Ladybird stops now and then to eat. Web search suggests they eat 50 aphids per day! #Rathlin #Island #WildlifeWednesday #WildWebsWednesday @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #ECK
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On #Rathlin #Island & not possible to do #OrchidChallenge due to swarms of biting midges. #Noticing UK most poisonous plant: Hemlock water dropwort (waiting to key out) #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK
Image of a beach with sailing boats and large bright green plant growing in foreground with flowers in umbelsAn umbel of flowers which have bracts and bracteoles like Hemlock water dropwort doesStem of the plant - not checked to see if hollow but not blotchy like Hemlock would be. Strongly ridged and hairlessBeautiful umbel of fresh flowers with classic architectural shape of Hemlock water dropwort against a sandy beach and scene with sailing boats
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I really appreciate that - sending also purrs from Ship’s Cat Tammy
Turquoise sailing yacht and a black cat on deck
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I have greatly enjoyed this month with attempts to portray what is important #NoMowMay I seem to have questions and answers every day by slowing to do some extra #Noticing which was what #JohnClare #poet was known for - ceased early as now on #Rathlin staying on our small sailing yacht
Image of stainless steel round teapot with photographer image in the mirror of it. On a boat with cat carrier in background
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Day 24 #NoMowMay #Noticing a bud of 1st Wood Avens & also Common Spotted Orchid for my #WildFlowerShow @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #Orchid #JohnClare #Nature #Poet #ECK #wildflowerhour #Yellow #Art
Macro colour shot of a bud emerging from an orchid with spotted leaves Macro shot of flower bud of Wood Avens - just splitting open
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@chris4nature.bsky.social very kind to like my posts. Prob won’t manage rest of May as I’m at an Island event but now I’ve identified I #notice I will develop this ongoing. So grateful to you 🙏 This came today: walking the 4 day route from Asylum. £4.84 free postage (pre-loved)
Photo of front cover of book: by Robert Hamberger : A length of Road (finding myself in the footsteps of John Clare)
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