Time for your #flowersonfriday This week it has to be vireya Konori, a tall species vireya from Papua New Guinea highlands, named for a local tribe. Its intoxicating fragrance bathes the entire garden and is drifting through the window into my study as I write🤍
#Flowers

Taking a power nap in the sun 🙃
#nature

Beautiful, brazen, iridescent blue, treading delicately, fearlessly over pink petals.
#InsectThursday #NaturePhotography

Kōtare found a discreet spot in the casuarina to warm himself in the early morning sun. A still, sunny day, cool in the shade.
#birds #nature

#thicktrunktuesday Trees are always working, dead or alive 🙃

'No matter what darkness the enemy tries to plunge Ukrainians into, the light will always be with us, in our hearts!'
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We may rail occasionally against the frustrations of old age. But we are the lucky ones to have come so far. Not a day goes by that I don't mourn the young lives taken so early and so brutally in Ukraine and in Palestine.
#ThoughtForToday and every day.

'Leave no trace.' Excellent advice 💚
#nature #EarthDay2024 #forest

#EarthDay from #TheFiveAcreForest 🙃
#nature #trees

I think some of my friends on here will be interested to follow this up...

Combat cats ready for action now 👍
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Update on the redoubtable Liubov Prochukhan, 75. Not just dancing on her prosthesis, she's riding a bike. She has work to do, cows to tend. 👍
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Yay!
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A welcome sign of autumn 💛Looks like a batch of home baking, and a tiny new colony coming up behind it.
#fungi #NaturePhotography A bity late for #FungiFriday

Such a pretty little fern, found on a discarded slab of pine bark around the edges of Puketi Forest and rescued. Now twice as many fronds, seems to be doing well in its own miniature environment.
#ferns #nature

A single person can make a difference. We can all take courage from that.
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Goodnight my friends 🙃Take care of each other.

It's Friday already and these miniature chrysanthemums are offering their cheerful smiles today for your #flowersonfriday 🙃

Goldin explained that bottlenose dolphins are predominantly used in navy training programs.

“They have long term social ties, kinds of kinships and each group can even have their own cultural traditions.”

But dolphin deaths in the Black Sea increased tenfold since the invasion

A glorious start to the day 🙃

#sunrise