Mary B
@beesincampanula.bsky.social
I should have been a pair of ragged claws… Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. Thrilled to be in top 5% of entrants for 2026 Bridport Novel prize #amquerying
Well that was a dramatic sunrise from Glastonbury Tor! More photos to follow later as it went from a very dark inky blue with flashes of red appearing in the clouds to this beautiful golden sunrise. Put it this way, I had to move quickly to capture it all 😂
In Ireland, Gleaning Sunday/Domhnach Deascán was the first Sunday after 15 August, when leftover crops were gathered. This is a practical operation but also a ritual one with ancient roots. The Old Testament stated gleanings were to be gathered by the poor & the dispossessed 🧵 1/2 #WyrdWednesday
Locals used to call the cliffs at Dedwick 'the place of a thousand skulls'. Given that the clifftop cemetery was collapsing onto the beach below, it wasn't an unreasonable name. Even now, storms sometimes pull bones onto shore, feeding it new ghosts. – #MattAdams, 1981
The narrow, high-banked path that carves a channel through the boneyard of St. Urian’s at Wormford is notoriously ghost-soaked. We would expect nothing less for a old wraith way, yet it has a pleasing diversity of phantoms: giant spiders made of smoke; flaming wheels; floating pillars of blue light.
Gaucin, Andalucia, Spain. Crocheted umbrella street decorations which also create shade made by local women's groups #WomensArt #Summer
Glowing Embers. Photo taken before sunrise this morning on Glastonbury Tor.
'The Mowing-Devil', printed in 1678. It recounts, as fact, an alleged incident in #Hertfordshire. A farmer saw a fiery light over his oat field one night, and then found it had been mysteriously mowed. The illustration encouraged some to believe it depicts the first Crop Circle. #WyrdWednesday
Nature has a way of saving humankind. Sadly, humankind is not so keen to save nature. theconversation.com/what-happens...
What happens to your brain in nature? The neuroscience explained
The neuroscience is in: When we spend time in nature, it has a cascade of positive effects in our brains.
theconversation.com
#HillfortsWednesday Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. Dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level. #Archaeology #History
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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🏛️ The existing temple of Apollo at Ancient Corinth, Greece was built ca 54O BCE on the site of an earlier 7th century temple. The later temple was built on a larger scale reflecting Corinth’s increasing wealth, power, and architectural ambitions. www.corinthcomputerproject.org/records/temp...
Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me
'Scarlet poppies' by contemporary Impressionist style US contemporary painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
On display at Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren. 🧵2/2
An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2
Goodnight from Beryl Brewer, wishing the cleaning supplies for the County Museum weren’t stored in the basement next to a room labelled Bone Depository. Goodnight from the cloud pond on Weland Hill, where a Harrowhound pack has come to slake their thirst. Goodnight from Hookland.
We drive darkening, ghosted roads. In these last minutes of solar alchemy, every turn is towards folklore. We become one with the land's long memory. One with a hodology where every traveller is another time's temporal shade. We become high strangeness. – #DAKilroy, 1982
I try to refuse sentiment, but few words stir my heart more than Free Public Library. However, I will admit that the phrase Free Local Museum comes exceedingly close. How can one not adore an eccentric collection of obscure objects acting as ghost-magnets? – #CJosiffe
Those feral churches – beyond diocesan office, enjoying green communion – call the imagination. Even before visiting, we've a knowing their ivy-blinded windows, their ghost-congregation cooled interiors, refuse this barbarous heat. Offer spirit-shaded sanctuary. – #DAKilroy
