Dave Garbutt
@davgar51.bsky.social
Poet, birder, house husband, father, photographer; programmer, IT consultant, zoologist. London, Reading, Basel, Southampton, Carbondale, Morogoro.
That’s just so typical of transcendence ;-)
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
That’s just so typical of transcendence ;-)
Ooh Perhaps you are right— bad id going back to 70’s fixed :-!
But very blue…
But very blue…
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ooh Perhaps you are right— bad id going back to 70’s fixed :-!
But very blue…
But very blue…
Is that like an Italic?
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Is that like an Italic?
They are other worldly. I still remember seeing my first Morpho in Tanzania in ‘77. Transcendent.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
They are other worldly. I still remember seeing my first Morpho in Tanzania in ‘77. Transcendent.
Reposted by Dave Garbutt
...& It was way trickier than I thought, TBH!
I was trying to catch something of the colours & textures & fuzziness of species that visit my garden. But when you love moths? It's hard to feel anything you make is a good enuf representation!
Also, no species is really one single colour…
I was trying to catch something of the colours & textures & fuzziness of species that visit my garden. But when you love moths? It's hard to feel anything you make is a good enuf representation!
Also, no species is really one single colour…
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
...& It was way trickier than I thought, TBH!
I was trying to catch something of the colours & textures & fuzziness of species that visit my garden. But when you love moths? It's hard to feel anything you make is a good enuf representation!
Also, no species is really one single colour…
I was trying to catch something of the colours & textures & fuzziness of species that visit my garden. But when you love moths? It's hard to feel anything you make is a good enuf representation!
Also, no species is really one single colour…
Its very smooth and great for writing. Bold, anyway. Hence I load it with red for bold notes :-)
It is from Endless pens but was a Kickstarter and seems to sold out.
It is from Endless pens but was a Kickstarter and seems to sold out.
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Its very smooth and great for writing. Bold, anyway. Hence I load it with red for bold notes :-)
It is from Endless pens but was a Kickstarter and seems to sold out.
It is from Endless pens but was a Kickstarter and seems to sold out.
Here is the Endless Blade nib
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Here is the Endless Blade nib
I posted a poem from 1997 and people loved it 😻
November 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I posted a poem from 1997 and people loved it 😻
I don’t have a Naginata but I have an Endless Phantom Capless and that has a blade nib which is as you describe.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I don’t have a Naginata but I have an Endless Phantom Capless and that has a blade nib which is as you describe.
Here is the Hong Dian Fude nib on the M2 Black Forest.
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Here is the Hong Dian Fude nib on the M2 Black Forest.
Like this?
This is a stub nib. Like an italic but rounded at the corners. No, or almost no tipping underneath.
It writes broad on the down stroke and thin going sideways.
This is a stub nib. Like an italic but rounded at the corners. No, or almost no tipping underneath.
It writes broad on the down stroke and thin going sideways.
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Like this?
This is a stub nib. Like an italic but rounded at the corners. No, or almost no tipping underneath.
It writes broad on the down stroke and thin going sideways.
This is a stub nib. Like an italic but rounded at the corners. No, or almost no tipping underneath.
It writes broad on the down stroke and thin going sideways.
When I wrote it I suddenly remembered an old photo in one of my Grandma’s magazines or encyclopædias
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
When I wrote it I suddenly remembered an old photo in one of my Grandma’s magazines or encyclopædias
Oh I remember that journal! Used to read it monthly
November 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Oh I remember that journal! Used to read it monthly
Ah there are also related specie in the Americas.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ah there are also related specie in the Americas.
#Haiku #Butterfly
Orange-tip a European butterfly out in April.
Orange-tip —looks like
He was singed —and slipped
From sun to meadow
Orange-tip a European butterfly out in April.
Orange-tip —looks like
He was singed —and slipped
From sun to meadow
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#Haiku #Butterfly
Orange-tip a European butterfly out in April.
Orange-tip —looks like
He was singed —and slipped
From sun to meadow
Orange-tip a European butterfly out in April.
Orange-tip —looks like
He was singed —and slipped
From sun to meadow
