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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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Ben Alder, central highlands, Scotland. Sketch in walnut ink and a wood engraving print based on the sketch.

Working on these engravings of Scotland's mountains is a constant reminder of how many I will never see again... and that in many cases that's just fine! Give me my gnarly old favourites.
Sketch in dark brown walnut ink of a mountain showing several ridges and corries leading up to a broad, complex plateau/summit. Done in a relatively sparse, graphic style with an empty sky. A print in black ink from a wood engraving based on the ink sketch.
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘January’ Shell Guide
Artist: SR Badmin
View through a window looking out onto a snowy Valley dotted with range of winter trees. In the foreground on the windowsill, we see examples of the leaves needles and fruit of the trees.
January 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Sun and moon.

☀️❄️🌕

Another few centimetres of snow overnight but it's back to rain from tomorrow...

#Sunrise #BlueMonday #Winter #Scape #EastCoastKin #Fermanagh #NorthernIreland #Ireland
Sunrise on the far side of a field. There is snow among the rushes and fields in the background are all white. The sun is just about to appear over the horizon to the left by a pair of tall, bare trees. The sky around it is a mix of pink and golden hues, changing to blue on the right. There is a scattering of sunlit clouds. Snow-covered plants in the foreground, including tall fennel seedheads. Behind a hedge in the background lies snow covered farmland. The moon, almost full, is shining in clear blue sky above.
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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It's freezing outside.
For many it's back to work / school / study.
Here's some warm sunshine to fill your ears.

Episode 223 - Birdsong in deep forest ambience (50mins)

On a steep rough path by a stream, pristine quiet. Just the wind in the firs and birdsong.

> bit.ly/LenKldrB
a narrow path between trees in an evergreen forest. bright green moss on the ground. trees in the distance.
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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Sunrise across the cold river (January 2024)
Sunrise across a river on a winter day, bringing red and orange to an otherwise cold blue scene. Frozen grass and weeds lie in the foreground.
January 5, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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"Psst! What are we all supposed to be looking at?"

🤔

Photo: Starlings from the kitchen window, Oct 2024

#BirdOfTheDay #Speckles&Spots #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Nature #EastCoastKin #BlueMonday #BlueskyMonday #Fermanagh
A row of sunlit starlings on a electricity line. They are all looking upwards in the same direction except one that has its head turned towards its neighbour, as if it's asking a question. Another exception on the extreme left is investigating the wire it's perched on. The sky in the background is clear and bright blue.
January 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Look out, little fella!

😯

Photo: Starling, back garden April 2025

#BirdOfTheDay #Speckles&Spots #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Nature #EastCoastKin #BlueMonday #BlueskyMonday #AllMetalMonday #Fermanagh
A metal weather vane - above the points of the compass, the direction arrow sits on a metal ball and also encompasses a metal cut out of an owl in flight. A sunlit starling is perched on the arrow head with its back to the owl. The latter looks like it is swooping down on the starling. Clear blue sky in the background.
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Snow on a tiny bit of pine tree.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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Dark snow clouds approaching Shieldaig Village from the north yesterday afternoon.
Dark sky behind a snow covered village by the sea.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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Daily #Wales is in snow today - no photos yet, so here’s one from our last big snow dump (by our standards) in 2010/11…
Snowy lane, sheltered by trees; the open field is full of snow and it has gathered on the top of the dry stone wall. Bright sun, though
January 5, 2026 at 6:59 AM
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Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn't use them - GCS
The common misconceptions about link-shortening tools and some of the potential risks associated with using them.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Early snowdrops in the park.
cluster of white snowdrop flowers
January 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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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
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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