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Ana McKellar
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Always curious. On a narrowboat, hoping for a passivhaus one day.
Landscape history, nature and biodiversity.
Partially-sighted. Please use descriptive alt-text to help screen-readers and include all.
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A long time favourite drawing of mine. A former manager encouraged me to submit work to the Royal Academy summer exhibition so I entered this. The frame still bears the chalk cross of rejection on the back but we've had it on the wall at home for many years.

#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
Pencil drawing of a tree, a large part of which has broken and fallen. A new branch appears to be growing out of the stump.
January 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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Rievaulx Abbey near Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Drawn after a New Year's Eve walk. The first time my mum visited it, in 2019. She was 93 last week & probably couldn't manage now.

#RievaulxAbbey
#drawing #sketchbook
#ArtShare
The ruins of a medieval abbey church. The view is from the nave with the almost intact, but roofless, transepts and eastern arm of the building seen above the ruins of the nave piers. The ruins of a medieval abbey church. The view is from the nave with the almost intact, but roofless, transepts and eastern arm of the building seen above the ruins of the nave piers.
January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Facing down a charge from a pale pony

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Facing down a charge from a pale pony
This is part of a slow trawl through my old photographs. This one is from January 2025. It is not unusual to find yourself in the way of a gang of Port Meadow ponies on the run. They have no intere…
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January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Pictures that explain things.
Trees in Winter (back endpapers)
Artist: SR Badmin, 1963
12 common British trees shown with their winter silhouette to facilitate identification
January 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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“To the left of the stile a hawthorn tree, bent by the prevailing wind, has a rich harvest of berries”.
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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in other news, the snowdrops are out
Snowdrops out on 3rd January
January 3, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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The more people become independent of fossil fuels, energy and resource inefficiency, overconsumption (insulation, enough space, shared infrastructure), the less likely the worst people in the world are able to drag you and the ones near you down to their level. (see USA).
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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Ten years ago, inspired by the return of my childhood interest in birds, I set myself a target: see 200 British species in a year.

The result was this book.

Through 2026 I’ll be revisiting it, month by month. If you want to join me, just subscribe to my newsletter. levparikian.substack.com
The cover of Why do Birds Suddenly Disappear? White, with the title and so forth, and the subtitle “200 birds. 12 months. 1 lapsed birdwatcher.” The back of of a goldcrest is disappearing to the right of the cover.
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Wood engraving (10x10cm), close to finished. The columnar basalt cliffs of Rubha Hunish, Skye. Two tiny figures on the path give a sense of scale.
The first test print off the block. Scope for many small improvements and, as always, work to do on the clouds.
Near finished engraving on a 100x100 mm block of lemonwood. It shows a view along and up vertical columnar basalt cliffs with steep scree slopes below. A path descends towards the viewer from a distant break in the cliffs. Two tiny figures on the path give a sense of scale. A pencil and engraving tool are shown to give scale to the engraving. First test print, in black ink, of the engraving.
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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The undercroft in my recent posts are beneath the part of York Minster on the right of this drawing, under the choir. The Lady Chapel (on the left) was built in 1361-73, the Choir between 1394 and 1420.

York Minster seen from Chapter House Street.

#Pencil #Drawing
#ArtShare
Pencil drawing of the view down a street past a 17th century house to a large cathedral.
January 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Winter Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder
A simple, painterly watercolour in a very limited palette range showing an expanse of cloudy sky and ploughed fields dusted with snow or frost
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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youtu.be/InHNxX0sSQM This is a special, New Year's Narrowboat vlog reflecting on life afloat as we go into to our seventh year. Happy New Year, everyone! Take care 🌻🦋
A Year in the Wild North, Living Off Grid on Our Narrowboat Home #267
YouTube video by The Mindful Narrowboat
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January 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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WE NEED YOU TO ACT NOW!
Support the Trust, have your say and have a voice.
The full information can be seen in the link below 👇
Have a read and follow the link to support us. THANK YOU.

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January 3, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Animals leave signs
Of night-time activities
In the fresh white snow
#snow #tracks #winter #nature
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Tracking Animals in the Snow
Now that the first flurries of snow have dusted the Pennine Peaks (it’s just started snowing here in Padiham as I edit this! (Nov 2023)) I thought it would be a good time to publish this short guid…
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January 2, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Happy New Year! 🎆

As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.

GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar

See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/

Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
January 1, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Juries don't just serve justice they serve society. This post explores how contracting jury trial will fray the social fabric. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
At your service.
Why jury service doesn't just serve justice.
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January 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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A few more photos from the drone over Northchurch Common this afternoon as the sun poured beautiful golden light over the treetops. The berries are amazing this year. Note the crown shyness on the 3rd image - normally seen from below :)

#Berkhamsted #DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro
Golden hour light on bare trees, seen from above. Lots of red berries and purple branches too. Trees with ridiculous amounts of red berries seen from above during the golden hour. Trees from above in the golden hour. You can see the crown shyness that you normally see when you look up from the forest floor :) More golden and purple trees seen from the drone.
January 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Bare trees and the misty river at Port Meadow and Medley

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Bare trees and the misty river at Port Meadow and Medley
Four photographs of bare trees and the misty river from a walk on Oxford’s Port Meadow and by the River Thames at Medley at the beginning of January 2025. Home
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January 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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The weather has deteriorated. Everyone raced inside early.

#myshetland #shetland #icelandichorses #shetlandponies #snow #winter
Blizzard
After a good breakfast, Floss and I put everyone outside without their rugs because they are all:- very floofy and fat they can move around better, roll and play and it wasn’t that bad, weath…
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Before it was all on our phones

“If we want to know if it is going to rain or whether the rain is likely to stop, we look up at the clouds”
Artist: Robert Ayton
The Weather (1962)
Under a yellow winter sky, ducks swim on a partially frozen lake and a heron stands on the bank. The snow has begun to fall
January 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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On a cold, dark morning at the start of the year, when the days are short and the trees are bare, it's good to keep in mind what lies ahead.

☀️🌿🌼

Photo: South West Coast Path in Somerset, May 2022

#FootpathFriday #EastCoastKin #Photography #ArtChallenges #Outdoors #EastCoastKin #Scape #Landscape
View along a footpath that descends into a lush green valley. Trees and flowering gorse dot the hillsides and buttercups and dandelions form yellow carpets across some of the fields above the valley. The sky is mostly blue with a few white clouds and the whole scene is brightly lit by the sun.
January 2, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Just the lightest dusting of snow in the Lye Valley at sunrise this morning. Not quite the picturesque scene we'd been hoping to capture!
#OxfordshireFens #OX3 #landscape ❄️
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A wintry scene. Running from the bottom centre of the photograph a boardwalk with a light dusting of snow heads into the midground before turning sharply to the right and leading through a shallow valley. To the right in the foreground a large clump of browning vegetation. To the left and right of the photo there are trees, while the sky in the background is grey with some lighter areas.
January 2, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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More snow on it's way #Shetland #snow
Heavy snow clouds over the sea
January 2, 2026 at 11:58 AM