The interior of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí.

Finally found the secret local snowdrop path in the woods, and it was beautiful! I felt like a woodland fairy walking along it #midlothian

While on vacation, this man took the time to help guide this confused swan back to the water below. The bird's reaction when he is back on the water is pure joy. 🥹

For Wildflower Hour. Petals before proclamations. Colour before certainty. Gathered in the rain — raindrops lending everything a quiet radiance. Above it all, the song thrush rehearsing the season. Spring — not declared, but approaching. #WildflowerHour #NoticingNature

In 1975, developmental psychologist Dr. Edward Tronick sat a mother and her baby face to face and filmed what happened when the mother suddenly stopped responding. First the mother plays normally, smiling, talking, making eye contact. The baby mirrors everything, laughing,

A purple and white sea of crocuses and snowdrops in the village of Belchford, Lincolnshire 💜 Photo from FB by Neil Boyfield

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A moment in time featuring Agnes Kašpárková, a 90-year-old Czech artist.

The "Symphonic Sculpture" located at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan.

25th February 2022 A single ceiling light over the bar marks a favourite spot for a regular at the Champion of the Thames. Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ligh… and all bookshops.

NEWSFLASH: David Lammy declares himself to be a member of the “conservative Bar”.

Satsuma-style painted stoneware ceramic cat figure. Culture: Japanese, 1904. Medium: Stoneware. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York. In early Japan, cats were highly prized animals, owned primarily by the imperial court and aristocratic circles. They

Rothko meets Giacometti [Fondation Beyeler museum Basel, Switzerland]

This is the House of the Ceii in Pompeii, frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago

The Casa Solà-Morales, a prominent example of Catalan Modernism (Art Nouveau) located in Olot, Spain.

Before pulling up nettles in your borders, it might be worth leaving some behind, especially if you’re thinking about biodiversity. Butterflies love a nettle and will reward you with many a flutter around your garden to say thankyou ⁦⁩ ⁦BBC Gardeners World⁩ ⁦

Family courts ‘not good enough’ for women and children, minister, Baroness Levitt says. ‘Problem-solving’, child-focused courts to replace adversarial hearings, with earlier intervention to cut delays. Domestic abuse must be at fore front of policy. theguardian.com/society/2026/m…

Peter Hitchens Lucy R. Fisher Dyes were inexpensive for the most part, made from plants available to the dyers in the immediate area. Even mushrooms were used for dye. Everyone could afford colorful clothing. Perhaps not as colorfast as the elite clothing, but colorful nonetheless, as seen below.

Music students are mystified, they say, by resonances recorded in Salisbury Cathedral and described by one of them as “a weird pinging”. #SalisburyCathedral churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/…

#StoryPlants #WildflowerHour Mares tail (Equisetum arvense) — older than our lanes, older even than the woods. I found them lit by sun along the verge, each stem held by the earth like a taper — not announcing spring, but witnessing it. Again.