1er mai 2024
Joyeuses fêtes à tous.
Joseph

Santillana del Mar
#Cantabria

Hyacinthoides nonscripta, so delicate, so beautiful, so capable of punching their way up through tarmac. An urban wildflower. #gardening #flowers #MayDay

Rosa Duftwolke ® - Fragrant Cloud ®Tantau Rosen
The Hybrid Tea Duftwolke #rose has elegant flowers, is quite big and has coral/red colour.
credit: en.rose.it Very fragrant🌹
Summer'23 photo, Parks & Rose Garden Niagara.
#RoseWednesday #gardeningTwitter #May1

Beech wood bluebells at Beltane.
A Happy #MayDay2024 to see these woods, these flowers today💙💚

The May Queen c1900 #GeorgeParlby designer #ThomasCowell painter Stained Glass Museum BSMGP
#MayDay #May1 #Beltane

14:23
#FiveHundredDaysOfSky

Cimetière de Vaugirard

I didn't realise that newly unfurled lime leaves (tilia cordata) were edible. There are 57 red twigged lime in the avenue at the
arboretum. They are of the variety tilia platyphyllos rubra. I had heard that an infusion from (only) the new flowers can be made, but not the leaves.

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they will take you.”
Beatrix Potter in 1881, with her dog Spot ✍️📚 🐶

Sur la route

#WoodenWednesday a bridge at Glencoe Scotland

Just a little understated thing to round off the day. Queen Maud of Norway certainly knew a thing or two about statement dressing & this feels, to me, like her halcyon days of dress. It dates to c1912, from the higher waistline & fishtail skirt. Beads galore nasjonalmuseet

#ReliefWednesday - A pretty damn fabulous stucco relief of an athlete with a hoop ('trochus') from the Nymphaeum of the Villa San Marco, Stabiae. Removed from that location in August 1752. #Roman #Art

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9578)

Pendant, early 17th century, Spain ”Ecce Agnus Dei”

The Lamb, of baroque pearl, rests on a codex.

(British Museum)

A #HillfortsWednesday bonus pic

Beautifully atmospheric recreation of the Iron Age *banjo enclosure* from Baker's Pit #Kernow / #Cornwall Cornwall Wildlife Trust 〓〓 by Phoebe Herring Phoebe Herring for Penwith Landscape Partnership

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We could quite happily live here 😊

Church at Saint Fagan's with wall decorations restored to c1530 before the Reformation swept them away

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekR
Rebel
'I'd rather be a rebel than a slave'