Walk with Christine yesterday afternoon. Unusually quiet, only a couple of folk around. Map & photos:

@alongtheray a lovely picture and a lovely thought.

#SilentSunday

June Noted, from this idea, started here. One thing a day noticed and noted. Rather late on recording.

@manton I love that too. Finding something I'd mostly forgotten about in the depth of my site.

Green-Veined White on Valerian #butterflies #butterfly

Read: Long Island by Colm Tóibín ★★★★★ 📚
Quiet, subtle and thrilling. Characters fail to communicate, wait too long for the right moment and miss and hit opportunities.

@ChrisJWilson @joshuapsteele the markdown block is a Jetpack one, at least here. Its icon is green in the block inserter.

A walk yesterday over familiar ground. A few notes and photos on the walkmap.

@Denny that is a lovely creature. I love watching dragonflies jinking in the air.

@KimberlyHirsh as a fairly regular discoverer I can say I am continuing to enjoy the process. Thanks for the work and the explanation.

This photo from yesterday gave me a smile. I thought I’d caught the #bee on the meadowsweet. #BloomScrolling #bees

Butterfly Day. Walking to Greenside Reservoir this afternoon. Felt like summer. Lots of butterflies. I’d guess over a hundred ringlets, a few meadow browns, some dark green and small pearl-bordered fritillaries, a couple of common blues.

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#SilentSunday

Lots of Common Blue Damselflies at Loch Ardinning today.

@hollyhoneychurch lovely, I will pay more attention to clovers now. Usually just checking for bees.

Beinn Bhreac & Ben Reoch yesterday.
Flora:
Bog Asphodel
Bog Myrtle
Bog Cotton
Tormentil
Fox gloves
Marsh orchid
Eye bright
Bedstraw
Milkwort
Bog heather
Bell heather
Saxifrage
Lousewort
Marsh thistle
map & notes

Read: The Slain Birds by Michael Longley ★★★★ 📚

The ravens in conversation overhead might be 
Discussing us or that sheep dead in a hollow 
With its yellow ear-tag and delicate black feet.

@withers 🤣 I was there for a wee holiday a few year back, beautiful despite the steps.

May Noted, from this idea, started here. One thing a day noticed and noted. Rather late on recording.

Read: Clear by Carys Davies ★★★★★ 📚
I loved this short tale, 1840, 3 characters, the split in the Kirk & the clearances.

There was a word in Ivar’s language for the moment before something happens; for the state of being on the brink of something.

Small Heath Butterfly on Thyme, seen on the walk up to Greenside Reservoir today. Lots of Ringlets and Goldfinches.

Quite a few Meadow Browns around the Kilpatrick Braes today, dozens of Ringlets and a small pearl-bordered fritillary.

@Miraz thanks, I was very excited. They were extinct in the uk until they reintroduced themselves in the 1950s. I’ve only seen them a couple of times over 40 years ago. The numbers nesting seem to be rising now.

@MrHenko that is really lovely.

Ardmore, a blustery day. The north bay calm out of the wind. For a few minutes I watched an osprey, circling round, at one point diving into the water, then up, empty clawed. Eventually it disappeared into the drizzle & haze. I got a few blurry photos, this is a crop.

@herself micro.blog would be a good pick. My class of 9-11 year olds use WordPress. The mostly use it for words and pictures. We find it fine. Takes the younger ones a while to get confident.

@ronkjeffries I use AppleScript to run some shell scripts. I usually do 3x3, on flickr. I duplicated & edited the script to do 5x3 today as a lot of flowers about. The Script, need ImageMagick, exiftool and an api key for geoapify. I did use mapquest but they started needing credit card.

@Miraz that was nice to scroll into, thanks!

@manton there was, or maybe still is, a WordPress plugin that would prompt the archive to archive any links you posted. AFAIR it was meant to point to the archive if links broke. Not sure that it fully worked. I remove it at some point. A great idea though. I’ve got some, probably klunky, JavaScript on my site that changes links to my old school site to ones on the archive.

@SimonWoods now listened, really powerful podcast. As a primary teacher who is keen on some technology it game me a lot to think about.

@jabel read this post a few times now. Really like it.

@cliffordbeshers I’ve come back to this several times. Still no idea of what it is, a stain?

@alexink Gorgeous. Solomon's Seal I think. I've quite a similar image

@Miraz what a cracking bird and super photos. Like others I find the second one stunning!

@thomasrost you can, but I am afraid I've no idea. I use a bridge camera, set to auto, the only thing I touch is the zoom.

The photo is on flickr where you could see the exif data if that is useful.

The only thing I know about exif is the location which I add with exiftool. I love taking photos mostly as a sort of diary, but have no knowledge about it at all 😳

@klandwehr beautiful white blossom and the blue.

@Parag my goodness that was some sky. beautiful photos

@jean Good Luck. Thank you for the amazing job you have done here. That the job existed was one of the most positive things about micro.blog. The way you carried it out made it even more so.

@Denny that is an amazing article. One can imagine other, maybe less impressive, events rippling and vibrating through the system. Thanks!

@adamprocter I've been using it to make up a bunch of example posts from pretend primary school blogs/websites. This struck exactly the same sickly enthusiastic tone.

@Denny great photo, what a good looking insect!