Diana Beaumont

i love to love

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist who created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the US #WomensArt

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[neanderthal paganism @milbel_]

Over 900 stone circles are known to exist in the British Isles.

Perhaps twice as many have been destroyed.

[United Nations @UN]

Tuesday is African World Heritage Day — an opportunity to celebrate the rich, diverse heritage of Africa & the invaluable contributions it offers to us all.

More from @UNESCO on the importance of preserving the continent’s unique heritage: https://t.co/Q52cIPAVNZ

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Piglet was sitting on the ground blowing happily at a dandelion, and wondering whether it would be this year, next year, sometime, or never. He discovered that it would be never, and tried to remember what 'it' was, hoping it wasn't anything nice. ~A.A.Milne #dandelions

[United Nations @UN]

“All freedom depends on press freedom. Without it, there can be no human rights, no sustainable development & no peace.”

Warning of risks journalists face worldwide, @antonioguterres calls for stronger protection of their rights. https://t.co/uhu1CUUscU

#WorldPressFreedomDay

[Holly Wood @thatuapgirl]

The old ways are still celebrated here.

In Glastonbury, Beltane rises again.

The May Queen crowned.
The Green Man awakening.
The maypole alive with ribbons, weaving stories older than memory.

Beannachtaí na Bealtaine ort

This is not just tradition.
It is remembrance.

A living echo of our connection to the land, to the cycles, to something ancient that still moves beneath the surface.

Credit: Avalon Enchanted Lands FB

[Titania @TitaniasRealm]

#FolkloreSunday

According to folklore, bluebell woods are enchanted places where fairies gather. Bluebells are often called "fairy flowers", and it was believed that when a person walked through a bluebell wood, the flowers would ring out to summon the fairies.

It was thought that picking or stepping on a bluebell was dangerous and could unleash powerful magic, because the faery folk would hang their spells on the bluebells to dry.

Hearing a bluebell ring, was seen as a very bad omen, and the person who heard it could fall under a spell and be abducted by the fairies.

Hearing the chime of the bluebells could even be a premonition of one's own death.

🎨 The Fairy Wood (1903) by Henry Meynell Rheam

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

We curl up and go to sleep... and Pooh, too, closes his eyes and nods his head, and follows us on tiptoe into the Forest. There, we have magic adventures; but when we wake up in the morning, they are gone before we can catch hold of them. ~A.A.Milne #adventures

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The Government has finally confirmed that the all badger culling will end including in the last cull licence area in Cumbria. After 13 years & the slaughter of 250,000 badgers at a public cost of £100 million this tragedy is finally over. We must now ensure it never starts again under a new Government in 2029. Well done to everyone who took to the fields marched in the streets and stood outside the Courts to end this this cruel costly madness

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

So long coming, but great news

[Stonehenge U.K @ST0NEHENGE]

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (3rd May) was at 5.35am, sunset is at 8.34pm 🌤

[Natural World Fund @TheNatureFund]

Emperor Penguins Face Extinction Threat as Antarctic Ice Melts #EmperorPenguins #ClimateChange #Antarctica #EndangeredSpecies #SaveOurPlanet

https://t.co/2WEjCxgtaY

[@heroesatwork @heroesatwork]

Well done Australia

[OpenBook @OpenBoo02828388]

May was the month when fairy music was most often heard drifting from hillsides, soft as wind through petals.
Temperature inversions on cool May evenings can carry distant sounds farther than usual. #FolkloreSunday

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

The Congo Basin is the world's second-largest tropical rainforest and absorbs more carbon than ANY other forest on the planet!
Why this matters for YOU:
These forests regulate rainfall for farmers, store carbon to slow climate change, and are home to gorillas, Jaguars.

[Tibet.Net @CTA_TibetdotNet]

"If you can at least be warm-hearted, you’ll reap great benefits. You’ll have friends; your children will grow up to be kind people, which is the proper way to build a happier society and a happy life," said His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. #MondayMotivation

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

“The bluebell is the sweetest flower that waves in summer air;
Its blossoms have the mightiest power, to soothe my spirit’s care.”

— Emily Brontë

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

For more than 70 years, British broadcaster and naturalist, Sir David Attenborough has brought nature to our screens.
At 100, he reflects on one unforgettable moment - coming face to face with mountain gorillas in Rwanda.
Here’s that encounter from 1979.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Where am I going?
I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the wood where the
blue-bells grow -
Anywhere, anywhere.
I don't know.
~A.A.Milne #Bluebells #BankHolidayMonday