Rachel Edwards

Nature. Art. Thalassophile 🌊

[Rachel Edwards @RachelDee5380]

👌#share #learn #encourage

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

I'm phasing out use of X, it has become an awful place. Now regularly posting on Blu*sky, consider joining me, seems like a much nicer vibe.

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

Let's hear it for hogweed! If you haven't got any pollinators in your garden right now, then grow some of this splendid native wildflower.
https://t.co/svRIr4DcOK via @YouTube

[BGandTorfaenLNP @BGTorfaenLNP]

To celebrate @WalesNatureWeek we're running a free Nature in Watercolour morning at Llwyncelyn Local Nature Reserve next Monday! Join us for a gentle guided walk followed by a watercolour for beginners session. Find out more and sign up here: https://t.co/zjR18oG8PB 🦋🐞🐛🐦

[Rachel Toll @Elidanza]

For Rob Burrow....

‘Every single day is precious. Don’t waste a moment.
In a world full of adversity, we dare to dream.’

#TheresOnlyOneRobBurrow 💛

#watercolour #LeedsRhinos #AnimalPortrait #Monochrome #mnd #texture #background #art #wildlife #painting #paint #endangered

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The power of street art - a thread 🧵

1. Patrick Commecy

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I post openly about my depression,autism,ADHD & PMDD here in case it helps you to feel less alone /ashamed-there's still a huge amount of stigma around these exhausting conditions.
Today my mental health's terrible. This might help a little if yours is too-this is 12 weeks away:

[SEWBReC @SEWBReC]

#RecordOfTheWeek today is this beautiful Cobalt Crust (Terana coerulea), spotted in Newport by Sue Colwill. Many thanks for the record and photo, submitted via the LERC Wales App https://t.co/EhVZCbdk6x

[Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil]

This is fantastic news - well done @torfaencouncil and all involved (@ValleyNature @RachelDee5380 @BGTorfaenLNP) 👏

It is so positive to see a council in Wales recognising the value of these sites. Hopefully this will spur on others to follow suit.

[Gavin Vella @GmusicV]

Our upland peaks should be cherished and yet most days they are destroyed in Gwent. Seeing this permanent damage was soul destroying and each year it gets worse. So bad that you can now see the damage from satellite images!

[Richard Dowling 🐝 @DowlingWildlife]

So the Government have banned plastic straws and now they're doing a consultation on banning plastic wet wipes...I agree this is much needed action, but meanwhile people can cover their entire property in plastic?? Can we get some perspective here!! @Shitlawns

[Miss Main & Miss Thomas @GSPriYear6L24]

We are so incredibly proud of our year 6 children, who led our Remembrance Assembly with such maturity and respect this week. You spoke so clearly and sang your hearts out.

Diolch i bawb who has donated to the Royal British Legion this week. Support is greatly appreciated ❤️

[Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil]

If you live, work or visit the South Wales Valleys, please could you complete this short survey (<10 mins) for @BuglifeCymru who are developing a project around the wildlife found on colliery spoil sites (coal tips and former collieries). Thank you!

👉https://t.co/k7F5gCNurq

[Rebecca Vincent Art @printreb]

Such sad news about Sycamore Gap! If you haven't seen the news, the iconic tree has been felled overnight. Clearly done on purpose with professional equipment. Who would do such a thing? I often feature this iconic landmark in my work as do many of my artist friends. It's hard to imagine Northumberland and Hadrian's Wall without it...
#sycamoregap
https://t.co/D9goN1K7UW

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'#SycamoreGap ' by Northumberland printmakrt and artist Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

[Donna Ashworth @Donna_ashworth]

The #AutumnalEquinox has arrived and with it my favourite season. Follow mother nature’s lead and whittle down your load to welcome the winter. Cosy and calm all the way now. Let go.
From ‘wild hope’ ♥️ #AutumnEquinox #Autumn

https://t.co/2fUy9TfZ4q

[Donna Ashworth @Donna_ashworth]

When someone facing death tells you to go grab life, I don't think they mean jump out a plane. I think they mean, let go of the handle bars of this ride. Stop gripping on too tight to conformity and schedule. Release the real you from its shackles and experience each day as though you never learned to punish yourself for simply being alive. I think they mean, slow down, not speed up. Take it all in. Let the worries for tomorrow stay where they belong and let today exist as it comes.

This is my current view. And I stopped to enjoy the cuteness of Brian’s teeth and the absolute depth of his cosiness (to his very core). And I should be rushing about by now but instead I am looking around at my lovely dogs, my lovely room, my lovely husband who just brought me a coffee and I am thinking… this is it. This is ‘life’ that we need to grab. Everything else is just ticks on lists. And they don’t ever stop needing ticked, my friends.

So tick them off in-between the ‘moments’…not the other way around.

And that, if you ask me, is grabbing life.

#gograblife

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is a strangler fig tree, Inside this tree is a hollow space where a different tree stood

The strangler fig's seeds have made their way into the canopy of a host tree and germinated. As the fig's roots grow, they cascade down the trunk,
Once they are in the ground it competes for nutrients and water with the host. Then It gradually tightens its grip around the host tree

This process hinders the flow of water and nutrients, causing the host tree to weaken and eventually die. Over time, the strangler fig takes over completely, once the process is complete, the original tree decomposes, a hollow centre is all that remains to mark its existence

[Dan kitchener @DanKitchener]

So here’s my finished mural entitled ‘Castle’ - based on a series of nighttime photographs I took on my first night here in Carrickfergus- it depicts a beautiful rainy nighttime scene , glowing colours and reflections and the castle in the background

[Rachel Toll @Elidanza]

So today I sat at Kynance Cove and watched the mist roll in and out and in again. Saw sunshine and showers ,mist and wind and sun again, really was magical , sitting and painting .
Home tomorrow x

#watercolour #Cornwall #KynanceCove #painting #coastpath #inspiration #art #paint