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Phil Barnett

@squinancywort1.bsky.social

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I walk in nature till I go away and nature walks me Nature, Art, Poetry, Music, Collaboration www.microcosmic.info www.microcosmic.shop www.spiralofhonesty.org

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 1d

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 24d

A Mobile - The Sun and Honesty seedpods

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Sep 5

These!

Real life green men and women.

Artists Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen have been on a journey to find them. Their project, “Eyes as Big as Plates,” transforms elders around the world into living sculptures, adorned with the very landscape they inhabit moss, seaweed, branches, and soil.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Sep 3

Inkling Days, I'm talking about different kinds of Inkling days on the lovely podcast Stopping by Hedgerows. It'll only take 6 minutes of your time.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/00iU...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Shadowtackle

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 21

me neither, I am never am, but its ok, it's still summer

there's an inkling day that foretells spring as well, usually February , sometimes January - but its definitely still winter!

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think it's today, the inkling day

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm very fond of looking at stained glass windows in churches.
Often my favourite parts are the unregarded details tucked away in the corners.
Plants, animals and birds - the naturey bits - are often to be found there.
This is a montage I've made of some of those

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 17

Alder leaf - stained glass window

(eaten away by alder leaf beetle)

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 7

it was like Pompeii for the Ivy people

some were trying to escape,

others embracing,

a kissing couple,

this one was caught in the act of climbing over a wall.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 6

She still believed in butterflies

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Aug 6

Things That Don't Exist - Peacock

They used to think there was a bird
with a hundred-eye shimmer for a tail.

Rainbow fractured in the facets of
a fly's compound eye.

And get this -

Some still claim to see them.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jul 31

summerward petals

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jul 24

Brimstone butterfly

It's great to see butterflies doing well this year. And insects in general.

After an atrocious year last year - it's good to see them bounce back, in this much better weather.

It was like the old days - almost.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jul 21

The thickness of a bat's wing

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jul 3

The canal maiden's long flowing hair

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 28

‪@poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social‬

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 28

- Because I Could Only Walk Twelve Steps -

threw myself forward to where
I'd soon be, traveled in the slipstream, like
a skein of geese, in person-form

the dog I would be walking
If I had a dog, sniffed out new routes
found novel ways to get lost ....

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 18

My, what a long ovipositor you've got .

it also has a very excellent latin name - Gasteruption jaculator
it has a very, very long ovipositor for laying eggs in the nests of solitary bees and wasps

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 11

another journey to the centre of the dandelion

macro photograph of a dewy dandelion seedhead

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them.
Therefore the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy.
The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now.

paraphrase of Terry Prachett

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 8

peak poppy

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 2

Swan Lake

a montage of mute swans

Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · Jun 1

it's a baby blue tit slide!

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · May 31

Wall chart of tree leaves
the hi res file is free download with the code
may2025
also tree buds and bark
microcosmic.shop

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