#SilentSunday

#EllieKPosts #NovaScotia #landscape

#SilentSunday
#AnimalsInClouds
#photography #nature #clouds

#art/#history: 'i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.'
james baldwin, born #otd in 1924, was a sage for the ages. his observations on society - from race & class to sex - were too much for harlem to hold...even from one of its native sons.
#illustration #jamesBaldwin #literature #harlem

#capitalism #sustainability

Time for a street garden update: This patch used to be a neighbourhood rubbish dumping place and I was sick of getting up each morning and clearing up other people's rubbish. I organised a group of friends to plant it out with no-cost cuttings from my mother's garden and other gardens. We planted it out over 3 years ago. The rubbish dumping stopped and has never resumed. This was a way more effective approach to prevent rubbish dumping than a sign telling people not to dump rubbish.

We knew we were onto something. We formed a group and since then we have grown lots of plants from free cuttings and helped plant out gardens that are now thriving. An important part of why we are successful is we don't do this as a charity. We are invited to help by local people who take charge. They tell us what they want help with, what their vision is and they look after the garden afterwards. It is their garden, not ours.

We are now collaborating with local not-for-profits who are helping us as we help them. Our group had a problem. We had hardly any space to look after cuttings as they grew ready for the next planting. Now another community organisation has given us space to store our cuttings over winter.

Over winter we have been working on improving the management of our group and planning an exciting series of activities for the next 6 months or so, all about helping our neighbours connect with each other and uplift our neighbourhood. This includes helping the not-for-profit who is helping us by helping them work with community in a different way.

It is still baby steps as we feel our way forward. But I am excited about our prospects and we are gaining some new volunteers.

(Gardening commentary in the alternative text)

#GardeningAU #StreetGardening #Gardening #Neighbourhood

“Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model that privatises profit and socialises cost.”

#StopFossilFuelSubsidies
#MakePollutersPay
#ParisAgreement
#ClimateCrisis
#GreenDeal

https://euobserver.com/226432/as-europe-swelters-paris-judges-say-consumers-arent-to-blame-totalenergies-is/

Three good things for today: 7/8/2026

1. Picked up some local cherries: 3 lbs of Rainiers and 2 lbs of Bings.
2. After much hemming and hawing, I bought a food dehydrator today.
3. Have a first batch of home-grown apricots in the dehydrator. (Cherries are next!)

#ReasonsToBeCheerful
#3goodthings
#ThreeGoodThings

@ColinTheMathmo Well-crafted small boxes are worth their weight in boxes!

The immensity of sunset.

July 8, 2026. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#photography #sunset #michigan #summer #art #cloud #clouds #airplane #MastoArt

“… a new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks. Yet it is not the self-driving electric car, as tech moguls and car industry executives imagined. Rather, it is the humble bicycle.”

#BikeTooter https://archive.ph/86DpV

Il y a 5 ans j'arrivais dans la forêt ici. C'était un move audacieux pour plusieurs raisons. Je partais de Montréal et je ne m'imaginais pas à quel point ma vie changerait du tout au tout en un claquement de doigts à partir de là. C'était un portail...

Ne vous fiez pas aux apprences de la vie, c'est de la poudre aux yeux. Vivez le plus intensément possible. On m'a toujours reproché mon intensité mais à l'heure de ma mort, je sais que je ne regretterai pas.

heureux vendredi ✌️

#portail #porte

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A cool misty woodland, (Burrator woods last April), for a hot day #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mistodon #mosstodon

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#FensterFreitag
#WindowFriday

Duomo
Florence, Italy

#photography
#FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography
#BlackAndWhite

The Moon passing in front of Venus should be visible across most of North America around 1pm local time (ish, very ish) today! Check the timing for where you are using Stellarium as described below, and then go outside and look up! It's really cool to be able to see celestial bodies moving relative to each other in real time, in the middle of the day! What a treat (I hope the clouds behave here...)

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116763200185509365

#SilentSunday #Sunset #Tasmania #lutruwita

" the healer "
ink on paper, #drawings #sketches

" worldwide loneliness "
ink on paper, #drawings #sketches