500 years ago Albrecht Dürer was one of the first Western popularisers of watercolours, of using wildflowers & plants as suitable subjects for art, & of new levels of botanical accuracy ~ all came together in works such as 8 Studies of Wildflowers ■ Large Tussock ■ Peonies

Anyone watching Live Aid: 40 years on? The movement had its fair share of criticism and Band Aid is a slightly ridiculous song, but it did a lot of good and Bob Geldof has a very good heart. I was, and continue to be, inspired by it

Effigy pipes excavated from the Tremper Mound near Portsmouth, Ohio in 1915.

Spot the odd one out... 🤔

Astoria the Wild Turkey of Battery Park doing her best to stay cool. 🦃 ❤️

Unconditional love matters. 🏳️‍🌈

The Leaf Bird. 📸: sivaan.photography (Instagram) ©️

Ive been to both Palestine or Israel, all people matter, all people matter!

Paris is going green — fast. In 15 years, air pollution's been cut in half, parking spots replaced with trees and parks, and streets turned into bike- and pedestrian-friendly spaces. If cars go, urban forests can grow. 🌿 More via Scape: uitgeverijblauwdruk.nl/tijdschriften/…

Bees sleep between 5-8 hours a day, when they get tired they can fall asleep in flowers holding each other’s feet 📸 Joe Neely

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Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.

Stunning image of Storm Floris this evening from Dundee Sat Station Orkney and Caithness currently being battered by the full force of Floris. 82mph gust recorded at Wick at 7pm

Jim Lovell (US Navy Captain and NASA Astronaut) was a legend of human space exploration; 4 missions (Gemini 7 & 12 and Apollo 8 & 13), only one of three astronauts to travel to the moon twice (but the only one to never to land on it’s surface) and Commander of the famous Apollo

Outstanding!

Big skys at Avebury this week. Pic by Andy Gladstone.

Happy #WorldElephantDay 🐘

Exam results have been flooding in recently and congratulations to everyone who got what they hoped for 🙌. Not everyone will have had a great day, I didn’t do very well in my A’ Levels but I was focussed on what I wanted to achieve and found a way forward. So be like Mark

The Rest Is Politics ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I met Peter Capaldi in a diner while I was reading the Blair Years. I asked him to sign it as Malcolm Tucker. Here's the result... 😂

A snoozing cat, photographed 113 years ago by Marcel Meys. I've cleaned up this lovely Autochrome from 1912, entitled "Portrait of a cat sleeping on a cushion". It is original colour, not colourised.