Springy
@formerspring.bsky.social
Lives in UK, ex-techie, travelled widely for work, mountain biker - slowly on level, likes trees, open spaces, & Chalk Downs, also Scotland.
This is my stick
It is a nice stick
And it is mine
I put it on the ground
I pretend to look away
You try to pick it up
I grab it and race around the garden
Then I come back and we do it again.
My son's dog - Border Terrier, when younger.
It is a nice stick
And it is mine
I put it on the ground
I pretend to look away
You try to pick it up
I grab it and race around the garden
Then I come back and we do it again.
My son's dog - Border Terrier, when younger.
January 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM
This is my stick
It is a nice stick
And it is mine
I put it on the ground
I pretend to look away
You try to pick it up
I grab it and race around the garden
Then I come back and we do it again.
My son's dog - Border Terrier, when younger.
It is a nice stick
And it is mine
I put it on the ground
I pretend to look away
You try to pick it up
I grab it and race around the garden
Then I come back and we do it again.
My son's dog - Border Terrier, when younger.
This Earth Star fungus was under 7-ft high gorse, being cleared as it overgrew species-rich grassland.
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This Earth Star fungus was under 7-ft high gorse, being cleared as it overgrew species-rich grassland.
I can offer a Border Terrier, bravely defending home & garden from a dangerous bag.
September 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I can offer a Border Terrier, bravely defending home & garden from a dangerous bag.
I thought underwear, but it's go-faster-stripes merging.
August 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I thought underwear, but it's go-faster-stripes merging.
Earlier this summer two beech trees died near me, very suddenly. I assumed 'latent fungus'. Not close, two miles apart, one copper planted in hedge, one wild grown native. Both beside road, perhaps normal run-off missing.
Ash, I assume, on Chalk Scarp near Maiden Bradley SW Wilts
Ash, I assume, on Chalk Scarp near Maiden Bradley SW Wilts
August 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Earlier this summer two beech trees died near me, very suddenly. I assumed 'latent fungus'. Not close, two miles apart, one copper planted in hedge, one wild grown native. Both beside road, perhaps normal run-off missing.
Ash, I assume, on Chalk Scarp near Maiden Bradley SW Wilts
Ash, I assume, on Chalk Scarp near Maiden Bradley SW Wilts
Was the tree pollarded, it looks a possibility. In which case rain and decay will be spreading in the interior. The plant growth shows available water. As this street Robinia, felled a few years after this photo -
July 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Was the tree pollarded, it looks a possibility. In which case rain and decay will be spreading in the interior. The plant growth shows available water. As this street Robinia, felled a few years after this photo -
Odd way of ripening, shedding petals -
July 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Odd way of ripening, shedding petals -
Was a techie, saw a lot of cores over 25 years, though mostly seabed seds. Never got beyond Tech Geol & FGS. This is from Strathspey, NE Scotland, I'd say typical granite. I'm wondering about source as used in construction. Multiple xenoliths showing age sequence.
May 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Was a techie, saw a lot of cores over 25 years, though mostly seabed seds. Never got beyond Tech Geol & FGS. This is from Strathspey, NE Scotland, I'd say typical granite. I'm wondering about source as used in construction. Multiple xenoliths showing age sequence.
you might like this...
March 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
you might like this...
A good location for butterflies and moths...
March 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A good location for butterflies and moths...
Thanks, I helped a friend for a year on surveys of NT Chalk Down property. Saw RB and its Bee. This interests me. formerly cultivated valley floor & terrace (by nearer thorn) shown by buttercups, main valley to L used for hay crop -
March 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thanks, I helped a friend for a year on surveys of NT Chalk Down property. Saw RB and its Bee. This interests me. formerly cultivated valley floor & terrace (by nearer thorn) shown by buttercups, main valley to L used for hay crop -
This is on a Dorset WT location, on a slope which has probably never been ploughed. Bee orchid & Yellow Rattle seedheads: the YR is a semi-parasite on grass, stops it outgrowing other plants.
March 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is on a Dorset WT location, on a slope which has probably never been ploughed. Bee orchid & Yellow Rattle seedheads: the YR is a semi-parasite on grass, stops it outgrowing other plants.
Zoomed in - tree is about twice the height of the fence.
March 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Zoomed in - tree is about twice the height of the fence.
I thought the same about this: Wilts Downs nr Oliver's Castle...
March 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I thought the same about this: Wilts Downs nr Oliver's Castle...
Anarchist chook in Scotland
February 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Anarchist chook in Scotland
I see four repairs, Stone is in inner part of SE quadrant, inner circle, W side. Photo is W-facing side of stone.
November 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
I see four repairs, Stone is in inner part of SE quadrant, inner circle, W side. Photo is W-facing side of stone.
Avebury: one of four nearly-invisible repairs of standing stone, one of four this face. I assume by Alexander Kieller during his restoration. #StandingStoneSunday
November 24, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Avebury: one of four nearly-invisible repairs of standing stone, one of four this face. I assume by Alexander Kieller during his restoration. #StandingStoneSunday
Lanzarotte, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean: lava tube broken open by sea, hazy day.
November 21, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Lanzarotte, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean: lava tube broken open by sea, hazy day.
And from NE Scotland - Bow Fiddle Rock (ie Violin), nr Portknockie, Moray Coast. Seagulls at top for scale.
I forgot - I'm retired. Have been house-sitting, now catching up on laundry & chores.
I forgot - I'm retired. Have been house-sitting, now catching up on laundry & chores.
November 18, 2024 at 6:44 PM
And from NE Scotland - Bow Fiddle Rock (ie Violin), nr Portknockie, Moray Coast. Seagulls at top for scale.
I forgot - I'm retired. Have been house-sitting, now catching up on laundry & chores.
I forgot - I'm retired. Have been house-sitting, now catching up on laundry & chores.
You like coasts, here is a rock arch, Durdle Door, Dorset, South coast of England: an area of classic Geology. Full photo shold show small boat botton R for scale...
November 18, 2024 at 6:15 PM
You like coasts, here is a rock arch, Durdle Door, Dorset, South coast of England: an area of classic Geology. Full photo shold show small boat botton R for scale...
One more, then I must go. I have only seen this the once. Difficult to photograph - days of film. Some wave-effect clouds downwind of Cairngorm range. I suggest you adjust contrast on your screen which might show detail better.
November 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
One more, then I must go. I have only seen this the once. Difficult to photograph - days of film. Some wave-effect clouds downwind of Cairngorm range. I suggest you adjust contrast on your screen which might show detail better.
Long time ago, above beach in October, late fall.
This photo is inland, looking S into Cairngorm Range, Lurcher's Crag on L, visible diagonal 'waves' of snow carried L to R by wind. Larig Ghru, valley shaped by glacier, to R.
This photo is inland, looking S into Cairngorm Range, Lurcher's Crag on L, visible diagonal 'waves' of snow carried L to R by wind. Larig Ghru, valley shaped by glacier, to R.
November 16, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Long time ago, above beach in October, late fall.
This photo is inland, looking S into Cairngorm Range, Lurcher's Crag on L, visible diagonal 'waves' of snow carried L to R by wind. Larig Ghru, valley shaped by glacier, to R.
This photo is inland, looking S into Cairngorm Range, Lurcher's Crag on L, visible diagonal 'waves' of snow carried L to R by wind. Larig Ghru, valley shaped by glacier, to R.
NE Scotland, midwinter, looking into windblown sand on beach, Culbin, Moray
November 15, 2024 at 11:06 PM
NE Scotland, midwinter, looking into windblown sand on beach, Culbin, Moray
Red Bartsia, I think, grows on Chalk, is semi-parasite on grass roots. Has a bee named for it: Red Bartsia Bee no less.
November 10, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Red Bartsia, I think, grows on Chalk, is semi-parasite on grass roots. Has a bee named for it: Red Bartsia Bee no less.