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Stack of four books on a wooden coffee table with a woodstove burning in the background with a brick surround and a pile of wood beside it. Book titles starting from the top: Nature Poems by Robert Burns Oaklore by Jules Acton The Comfort Book by Matt Haig The Lost By Sarah Beth Durst

Some of the books I'll be reading in the new year. We went to our local pub Bushwaller's and ate too much with our Kilkenny pints. Then on to @curiousiguana.com
I call it pub and book day and I try to do it once a month.
#books #reading #indiebookstore
#pubandbookday

This is easily up at the top of my list of best news I've heard in the last 9 months. Mychal is definately the person for this too📚🌈❤️

The book A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan lying on a purple blanket.

If you enjoy witchy fiction this was good. It felt like the right book at the right time, and similar to how I felt when I read The Once and Future Witches in Oct 2020.

#witchybooks #witchyreads #witchystuff

Yellow birch leaf wet from rain lying on lichen of various shades of green growing on a dark red porch floorboard.

Birch leaf with rain & lichen
#autumn #fall #lichen #leaf #naturephotography

Various shades of green lichen across a dark red painted floorboard underneath. Tan backside of an oak leaf with rain droplets lying at the top. Brown dried acorn with rain droplets lying at the bottom.

I had a quiet stay in a cabin last week. Saturday night it rained and I got some nice autumn pics on Sunday morning before leaving.
#autumn #fall #lichen #leaves #naturephotography

Thank you :)

Little white and tan mushroom after a light rain surrounded by bright green moss, dried brown maple seeds, and little twigs.

One of the mushrooms I found after it rained yesterday morning.
#mushroom #moss #summer #nature #photography

Book tilted Spring laying on mossy tree roots.

I’m loving Spring edited by Melissa Harrison. I got the summer, autumn, and winter ones as well. It’s great that there’s a mix of writers from our past and present. There’s a wide variety of different types of writing. All the covers are really colorful too.

#books #naturereads #spring

Thank you! ☺️

Long lightly gravel covered trail through a lush spring forest

Trail and trees as far as the eye can see
3/3

#trail #spring #trees #forest #nature #photograhy

Small dirt trail through the woods with large old trees on both sides a little ways up the trail. Purpleish pink wildflowers dot the trail sides.

The trail wanders on
2/3

#trail #spring #nature #photography

Small walking trail through a forest. Large trees stretching across the path overhead and wildflowers growing along the side.

I have a trail I’ve loved for decades. There are spots I know not just by sight, but by feel. I can’t explain the feel, but I know it by memory. If I could only ever go on one trial ever again it would always be this one. 1/3

#trail #spring #nature #photography

Close up of a tree trunk with deep green lichen and moss with a single vine of ivy growing up over it.

Took this today in between the rain. Love the way the ivy grows up the base of this catalpa with lichen and moss all over it.

#tree #ivy #moss #lichen #nature #photography

Abstract dark greenish blue toned picture of a lush maple tree taken through a window. At the top the outside condensation and raindrops look like paint splotches. The bottom half has lots of little lines of raindrops beaded on the window.

I took this rainy picture of the maple out one of the top sunroom windows yesterday. I messed around with the color saturation, black point, and brightness a bit and ended up with this abstract.

#tree #rain #green #photography #abstract

Newly unfurled pale green leaves on a maple tree lightly glowing from the sun. Bright blue sky and trees that haven’t gotten their leaves yet in the background.

New leaves on the maple glowing in the sun.

#maple #tree #spring #nature #photography

Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche (Official Visualiser) YouTube video by LudovicoEinaudiVEVO

If you haven’t heard anything by Ludovico Einaudi, let me introduce you to his work. This is my favorite song, and I love this video as well.

#calm #relax #piano #instrumentalmusic #natureandmusic

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I love this so much! Thank you for sharing.

It’s a ‘90s evening: boots and flannel sitting on my back porch swing listening to Tori Amos’ Cornflake Girl and hearing crows flying around and cawing to each other at the end of the song.

#90s #toriamos #flannel #boots #raisingirl

I listen to a wide array of music

but seriously alternative rock forever as I sit here in my combat boots and flannel

Just a little of the periwinkle starting to bloom.

#periwinkle #spring #nature #photograhy

Yay, first violet of the season among the magnolia petals.

#violet #spring #nature #photograhy

I adore my star magnolias in bloom. I like to stand under them on a sunny day and gaze up at the bright blue sky. Never gets old. Magick every single time.

#magnolia #trees #spring #nature #photograhy

Be the lone huge woodland crocus you wish to see in the world.

#crocus #spring #nature #photography

Sunny daffodils

#daffodils #flowers #spring #nature #photography

Where the light and the shadow meet.

#light #shadow #moss #spring #nature #photography

Hellebores, always one of favorites.

#hellebore #flowers #nature #photography #spring

Lots of snowdrops popping up all around the yard too.

#snowdrop #flower #nature #photography #spring