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Rick M
@rickmartin.bsky.social
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Now 90% #Bloomscrolling . I grow plants indoors and out and take pics of them wherever I find them, always my own pic, usually but not always my own garden. I repost quite a lot too.

Socialist. Skint. North West England.

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phewtus.bsky.social
Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1336 and a very happy #thicktrunktuesday. A winter visit to my favourite tree.
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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mark156.bsky.social
Oh to be by the brook happy #thicktrunktuesday
A tree by the brook,water running through,steep side with trees,mossy rocks as the sun rises blue skies and frost,a beech
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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stevebatch.bsky.social
Oak under Jupiter and the moon
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Oak #Trees #Moon
A single oak stants tall in a hedgerow that creates a boundary between farmed fields. The hedge runs up and across the image on acurved angle from the bottom left until it meets another boundary hedge that runs across the image on the bottom third. A line of patchy snow helps to hghlight the curve of the hedge. The Oak tree has a pale lower trunk which helps it to stand out from the otherwish gloomy pre-dawn background until its overall shapeand the individual map of its branches becomes clearer and more silhouetted against the blue pre-dawn sky. The Oak is not partucularly tall and has a rounded spread of bare branches above the hedge line. Just above thre upper branches of the tree Jupiter is just visiblke as a tiny white star like dot visible with the moon also visible as a bright white disc near the top left hand corner of the image.
January 6, 2026 at 5:59 AM
rickmartin.bsky.social
Cold sunshine 🌱🌳

#ThickTrunkTuesday #TreeClub #Trees #Nature
Tall sturdy tree on frosted ground against a winter blue sky, looks surprisingly warm, felt bloody freezing!
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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beyondpaisley.bsky.social
Don't ask me what specific kind of dahlia this is, I have no idea. It was in my bestie's garden and it blew me away. #dahlia #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin #photography #flower
Pink/coral dahlia
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
rickmartin.bsky.social
Bumblebee on dahlia 'Pink Halo' 🌱🐝

#Bloomscrolling #MacroMonday #MagentaMonday #BugSky #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin
Bumblebee with good detail resolution of her face, on a pink, magenta and yellow dahlia flower
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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fivecats.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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boblovessucculents.bsky.social
This is a recent gift from old friends. They found a handsome young Peanut cactus and paired it with this cool hand made pot. The best part is the artist is their very talented daughter. 🏺🌵

#cactus #pottery #art
A young Peanut cactus (Echinopsis chamaecereus) with many short green stems. It's in a small ceramic pot with a dark tan glaze. A relief of a running fox is in the middle of the pot.
January 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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gunkle.bsky.social
❄️ 🔥
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants.

Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.
Green party leader branded the strikes a breach of international law. The conservatives party said it was important to understand the full facts before rushing to judgment.
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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iseefacesinthings.bsky.social
Quack, quack! 🦆🦆

#Pareidolia #Pareidolie #Iseefaces #FacesInThings #FacesInPlaces #CaleanaMajor #LargeDuckOrchid #Flowers
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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andrewrob.bsky.social
I didn't manage it in January last year so I'm pleased with this from Lytham St Annes. Clockwise Daisy, Red campion, Shepherd's purse, Common sowthistle, Rosemary, Gorse, Groundsel, Seaside daisy, Greater periwinkle and Dandelion. Rosemary an escapee but was in flower! #wildflowerhour #winter10
January 4, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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shypixie76.bsky.social
Icy bench on a snowy morning ☃️🩵❄️
#Snow #Winter
#NaturePhotography
@thephotobookmuseum.bsky.social
An icy bench on a snowy morning
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
rickmartin.bsky.social
Lupins, grown from seed, flowering June 2023 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin
Pink lupin flowers
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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marysunshineisgone.bsky.social
I nearly forgot about #Stunday
Bee with so much pollen on its face. And an orange flower.
January 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#MyBest2025 #MacroMonday

Dew drops hanging from a bent over and decaying fennel blossom. Tiny dew drops are hanging from cobwebs.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Macro #Fennel
Monochromatic golden hues of a bent fennel stalk and its smaller stalks that once held the blossoms. Each smaller stalk has a large dew drop hanging from it, and smaller dew drops hang from a few cobwebs. The background is a golden bokeh while the highlights of the dew drops are light golden color. The stalks are dark gold/brown and the main stalk is almost black.
December 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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mcfodi.bsky.social
Happy #macromonday! It’s basically tuesday but whatever I do what I want. Here’s a cool #wasp from Hawaii! Def not the best picture i’ve taken but it’s a cool find, Anastatus i believe someone correct me if im wrong.

#macrophotography #photography
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jerrycallaghan.bsky.social
Orange zinnia
#MacroMonday #photography #fotografie #fotografía #EastCoastKin
#photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #bloomscrolling #zinnia
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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kimwilkie33.bsky.social
1/05/26 Wild Geranium May 2006
Canon EOS Rebel XT / 350D 8MP
#ColorADay #PinkMon #Flowers
#BloomScrolling #MacroMonday
#ArtYear #Photography
A close-up photograph of a wild geranium flower with a canvas overlay added to the image.
January 5, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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annalois36.bsky.social
Burst of Winter Colour
for #BlueSkyMonday and #MacroMonday

(Used a macro setting)
#EastCoastKin #photography #macro #flora #nature #winter #bluesky #flower #tree #colour #witchhazel #bloomsky #garden #bloomscrolling #movement
(Android phone camera)
First posted this a year ago but it's such a vibrant burst of joy it deserved a second outing. Photograph taken using a macro setting looking up at a rust-red witch hazel flower against a blue sky. The colours are a bold contrast. The flower is made up of lots of individual papery strands in curled mass supported by a nobbly green-brown stem. Love witch hazel - it's so bright and great for medicinal purposes too!
January 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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govegan68.bsky.social
“Glazed” mushrooms on a Monday ✨🍄‍🟫✨

#MushroomMonday #moss
#FungiFriends #mushrooms
#PNW #ShroomScrolling #mycology
January 5, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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createnewpaths.bsky.social
Seeing the communities all around us🍄‍🟫🥰

#eastcoastkin
#MacroMonday #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends
January 5, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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sharkeee.bsky.social
Yesterday whilst take a chilly mooch through an ancient woodland, we happened across some little green gems lurking in the sparse dry moss loosely covering a historic earth boundary bank, under some big old holly bushes so well shaded.
Late season Parrot #waxcaps in a rather odd location?
#fungi
January 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Lithops, probably l. lesliei 🌱🌵🪴

#SucculentSunday #plantsky #houseplants #succulents
A pair of living pebbles in a small terracotta pot. This started of as a single much smaller specimen which has grown, divided and grown again over the last 3 or 4 years but has not yet flowered.
January 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Sempervivum 🌱🌵

#Succulents #PlantSky #GreenSat
A single common houseleek, a hen that will soon start making chicks. This single succulent rosette has foliage shading from grey green to green to vibrant purple red at the tips
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM