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Whatters2
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I'm curious about a lot of things. Never enough books. Love b&w photography and art. Oh, and by the way, I have a thing for lighthouses. NO POLITICS 🚫
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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · Dec 1
This space is not for politics, so if that's what you post, please don't bother following me as I will block.
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thebeeguy.bsky.social
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 211

The central place foraging behaviour of #bumblebees requires that they have cognitive capacities such as navigation, memory and learning.
Anything which impairs these capabilities will impact upon the health of the colony.
#bees

#nature
#science
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Me: "Everything’s under control!"

Narrator: ...Absolutely nothing was under control.
An Osprey perched on a branch, feathers slightly ruffled and eyes wide, staring ahead with an intense, frozen focus. Its posture is rigid, as if it’s holding itself together while quietly experiencing an internal panic.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Moose, Antelope Flats, Grand Teton National Park. November, 2025.

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
🎞 150 mm – 1/220″ – f/7.1 – ISO 800
🏷️ #NationalParks #Wildlife #Moose #Photography
A bull moose standing in tall grass with rolling hills in the background.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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bookcat.bsky.social
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

~P.G. Wodehouse

Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme:

✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘November’ (1958)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
The bottom of a very large garden sees lots of gardening activity on a sunny autumn day. A man digs a border, a woman and small dog sweep up and another woman wheelbarrows away debris
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Whoomst disturbes the Queen? Photo from my collection, 1953.
Black and white photo of a beautiful shorthaired calico cat lying on her side on a lawn. Her body faces away from the camera but her head is turned back toward the viewer with a slightly annoyed expression.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
‘The candlelight flickered faintly, casting long shadows on the walls as if trying to escape the weight of the night.’ ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
🖼️ Pieter Claesz
Still Life with Lighted Candle (also known as Quiet life with a burning candle) by the Dutch Baroque artist Pieter Claesz, dated 1627. The precisely arranged still life depicts a quiet, dimly lit scene on a wooden table, focusing on scholarly pursuits or reflection. A large, green glass filled with liquid sits prominently in the center-right. Pieter Claesz was known for his convincing depiction of different materials, including the wine in the drinking glass and the reflection of candlelight. An open book with a pair of spectacles resting on top is in the foreground, next to the glass. Another closed book is stacked behind the open one. On the left, a lit candle in a brass candlestick provides the main light source. An ornate pair of wick trimmers (scissors) and a small box (likely a snuffer or tinderbox) are positioned in the foreground.
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ The Ghost Story, Louis Wain.
A painting by Louis Wain, titled The Ghost Story. It depicts an anthropomorphized scene where numerous cats are gathered indoors for a storytelling session. On the left, a large black cat dressed in dark clothing stands animatedly, gesturing with one paw extended and its mouth open as if mid-speech. A group of approximately twenty other cats, varying in size, sit on the floor and on a bench, listening. Some cats are young kittens sitting on the floor in the foreground. Others are older, seated on a bench or chairs, some wearing clothing like jackets or dresses. The room features framed portraits on the wall, a small table with a vase of flowers, and a window letting in light from the left. Small objects resembling books or boxes are on the floor. The artist's signature, "Louis Wain," is visible in the bottom left corner.
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Danny Trower, already feeling it was a mistake to meet at the Hawgate Trading Estate to discuss the selling of Faery bones. Goodnight from Joan Letts, afraid to lift the curtains and look out in case its the Wicker King knocking on her caravan door. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Rails thrum with trains that never arrive. Limbs made phantom by branch line butchery become ghost grooves for steam-powered spirits to move across the land. No aspect of what was once modernity is immune to temporal shading, is immune to being haunted. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
People don't like to talk about the time when the trees of Whirlow Wood grew wooden people to send as emissaries to Barwell village. People don't talk about the Treaty of the Axe. The ongoing offerings. – Ruth Hyde #VOH
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
🖼️ Hares, Martin Truefitt-Baker.
Hares and Meadow Cranesbill" by artist Martin Truefitt-Baker. It depicts two hares, one leaping over the other, amidst tall grass and purple meadow cranesbill flowers.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Dormice, Edward Adrian Wilson, 1910.
A vintage illustration of several dormice in a tree. Six dormice, specifically the common or hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius), are shown climbing on the branches of a tree or bush. The mice are gathered around a woven nest, with one dormouse partially inside it. The branches are covered with green and brown leaves and clusters of dark berries. The image is a detailed, 19th-century watercolor illustration by Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson.
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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boat-billed heron
November 2025
#pairidaiza #birds
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Siam and Maximus
#pairidaiza #elephants
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Siberian Tiger
November 2025
#pairidaiza
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Red panda
November2025
#pairidaiza
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Kookaburra
November 2025
#pairidaiza #birds
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Today is Old Samhain (Old Halloween). It marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Also the beginning of the 'winter revelling season' of drinking, storytelling and mumming.

📷 Mummers, Ireland by Ronan O'Connell
Photograph of Mummers in Ireland by Ronan O'Connell
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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stephengrae.bsky.social
In Cumbrian dialects, 'corby' is carrion crow

one crow is bad luck
two crows is good luck
three crows for health
four crows for wealth
five crows and sickness is coming
six crows for a death is nearby

more: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#birds #folklore #booksky
Black crow by Arthur Rackham
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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#WhenBeastsSpoke
Doe stood soundlessly among the trees, safely wrapped in the stillness of the sleeping woods. Here, the world felt far away and dreamlike. She passed her hours in soft reflection - foraging, walking, resting. What a magical way to spend a day.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🌊👑🌊The Little Mermaid Saved the Prince - by Edmund Dulac #FairyTaleTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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And this morning the Shed is a flickering image on an ancient screen, scratched and stuttering…
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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listerlanecem.bsky.social
Good day all.
The last of this year's crop of apples.
This image shows the last of this year’s crop of red apples dangling from the tree branches and fallen on the ground. Glimpses of gravestones can be seen through the tree foliage.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
A charcoal drawing titled Still Life with Candle by the French artist Albert Lebourg, c.1867-1870. The drawing depicts a dimly lit, intimate scene centered around a single burning candle. The flame casts a soft, gentle light. The light illuminates several objects on a surface, including a jug or pot, the candlestick, and a box-like form partially covered by a draped cloth.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM