Karen D Shipp
@karendshipp.bsky.social
Here to learn. And with others, to face up to the uncomfortable realities of climate change and the need for fairer distribution of wealth in these desperate times.
Pro-Europe, pro caring for future generations, pro Ukraine.
#CovidIsAirborne #BoycottTesla
Pro-Europe, pro caring for future generations, pro Ukraine.
#CovidIsAirborne #BoycottTesla
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I love your poem.
We relate to trees in a similar way. Often, treading the same paths, in these woods I've loved for 30 years, I know the curve and line of every trunk. Family, almost. I sometimes find myself placing a hand on one in respectful fellowship.
We relate to trees in a similar way. Often, treading the same paths, in these woods I've loved for 30 years, I know the curve and line of every trunk. Family, almost. I sometimes find myself placing a hand on one in respectful fellowship.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I love your poem.
We relate to trees in a similar way. Often, treading the same paths, in these woods I've loved for 30 years, I know the curve and line of every trunk. Family, almost. I sometimes find myself placing a hand on one in respectful fellowship.
We relate to trees in a similar way. Often, treading the same paths, in these woods I've loved for 30 years, I know the curve and line of every trunk. Family, almost. I sometimes find myself placing a hand on one in respectful fellowship.
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Heading out of the autumn woods at #evening, I was surprised to come upon this sheep, pregnant - so the sign said - with next spring's lambs.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Heading out of the autumn woods at #evening, I was surprised to come upon this sheep, pregnant - so the sign said - with next spring's lambs.
#BlueSkyArtShow
#BlueSkyArtShow
Lovely!
The silver birches here (UK) are wonderful at the moment. Many are fully yellow now, while a few are still green, and others are speckled lemon-and-lime.
The silver birches here (UK) are wonderful at the moment. Many are fully yellow now, while a few are still green, and others are speckled lemon-and-lime.
November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Lovely!
The silver birches here (UK) are wonderful at the moment. Many are fully yellow now, while a few are still green, and others are speckled lemon-and-lime.
The silver birches here (UK) are wonderful at the moment. Many are fully yellow now, while a few are still green, and others are speckled lemon-and-lime.
Beautiful again in the woods today. Under the chestnut trees, squirrels are busily collecting fallen nuts. Wet conifers stand darkened by the night's rain, while the sun illuminates a billion autumn leaves.
#autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
#autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Beautiful again in the woods today. Under the chestnut trees, squirrels are busily collecting fallen nuts. Wet conifers stand darkened by the night's rain, while the sun illuminates a billion autumn leaves.
#autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
#autumn #BlueSkyArtShow
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
November 1, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Why do folk build these woodpiles - most often around the base of a tree - all over the woods?
Perhaps they are playing 'lets build a shelter' and that's as far as they get?
But it dries out fallen wood, increasing the summer fire risk, and impairing insect habitats that would make food for birds.
Perhaps they are playing 'lets build a shelter' and that's as far as they get?
But it dries out fallen wood, increasing the summer fire risk, and impairing insect habitats that would make food for birds.
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Why do folk build these woodpiles - most often around the base of a tree - all over the woods?
Perhaps they are playing 'lets build a shelter' and that's as far as they get?
But it dries out fallen wood, increasing the summer fire risk, and impairing insect habitats that would make food for birds.
Perhaps they are playing 'lets build a shelter' and that's as far as they get?
But it dries out fallen wood, increasing the summer fire risk, and impairing insect habitats that would make food for birds.
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Looking out across its beautiful graveyard, to the fields beyond. From #inside St Merryn Church, near Padstow.
#BlueSkyArtShow.
#BlueSkyArtShow.
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Looking out across its beautiful graveyard, to the fields beyond. From #inside St Merryn Church, near Padstow.
#BlueSkyArtShow.
#BlueSkyArtShow.
One of many grand old trees, dark and glistening in the rain at Pencarrow (house and gardens) Cornwall yesterday.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
One of many grand old trees, dark and glistening in the rain at Pencarrow (house and gardens) Cornwall yesterday.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Early autumn walk in the rain at Pencarrow. A beautiful unassuming garden to visit, if you are in Cornwall or Devon, with many massive old trees.
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Early autumn walk in the rain at Pencarrow. A beautiful unassuming garden to visit, if you are in Cornwall or Devon, with many massive old trees.
A barcode of #Vertical trees, from last winter.
Sometimes you need a human being in a photo, for scale. If you expand, you can see the tiny woman and her dog!
#BlueSkyArtShow
Sometimes you need a human being in a photo, for scale. If you expand, you can see the tiny woman and her dog!
#BlueSkyArtShow
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A barcode of #Vertical trees, from last winter.
Sometimes you need a human being in a photo, for scale. If you expand, you can see the tiny woman and her dog!
#BlueSkyArtShow
Sometimes you need a human being in a photo, for scale. If you expand, you can see the tiny woman and her dog!
#BlueSkyArtShow
Yesterday I found myself on a track that took me to a place I'd never walked before, in all my 30 years of loving these woods. The ground fell away so steeply from one side of the path, and I found myself walking amongst the treetops! It was quite magical. #woodland
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yesterday I found myself on a track that took me to a place I'd never walked before, in all my 30 years of loving these woods. The ground fell away so steeply from one side of the path, and I found myself walking amongst the treetops! It was quite magical. #woodland
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This autumn, the ground beneath the chestnut trees is thick with fallen fruit. Way beyond the wildest dreams of any squirrel.
October 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This autumn, the ground beneath the chestnut trees is thick with fallen fruit. Way beyond the wildest dreams of any squirrel.
These sweet chestnut leaves were all a #glow in the midsummer sun. #BlueSkyArtShow
October 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
These sweet chestnut leaves were all a #glow in the midsummer sun. #BlueSkyArtShow
He weaves his web between my wing mirror and the car door, and for months has come with me on every outing - motorway journeys and all. When I speed up, he hides inside the rim of the wing mirror. Sometimes he's slow to take refuge, and hangs by only a thread, yet always makes it to safety. #spiders
October 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
He weaves his web between my wing mirror and the car door, and for months has come with me on every outing - motorway journeys and all. When I speed up, he hides inside the rim of the wing mirror. Sometimes he's slow to take refuge, and hangs by only a thread, yet always makes it to safety. #spiders
The storm brought down masses of chestnuts; they were still falling around me as I walked.
There were families looking for mushrooms & collecting chestnuts, men with radio-controlled trucks, joyful dogs of every description, bike riders, horse riders.
I feel like a host in the woods on a Sunday.
There were families looking for mushrooms & collecting chestnuts, men with radio-controlled trucks, joyful dogs of every description, bike riders, horse riders.
I feel like a host in the woods on a Sunday.
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The storm brought down masses of chestnuts; they were still falling around me as I walked.
There were families looking for mushrooms & collecting chestnuts, men with radio-controlled trucks, joyful dogs of every description, bike riders, horse riders.
I feel like a host in the woods on a Sunday.
There were families looking for mushrooms & collecting chestnuts, men with radio-controlled trucks, joyful dogs of every description, bike riders, horse riders.
I feel like a host in the woods on a Sunday.
Breathing fresh sea air, sun on your skin, sand under your toes. What better way to #relax?
#BlueSkyArtShow
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#BlueSkyArtShow
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October 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Breathing fresh sea air, sun on your skin, sand under your toes. What better way to #relax?
#BlueSkyArtShow
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#BlueSkyArtShow
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