Green Hairstreak. Walking from Braeval car park. Lovely sunny day. Dozens and Dozens of orange tips and Green Veined Whites, but I had my eye out for these wee guys. Eventually saw 3 and this one cooperated for a few seconds.
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#silentsunday #waterfall #scotland
Walk to Greenside: cuckoos calling & cuckoo flowers. Lots of green, lots of singing birds hiding in the green. The Sun came out and so did green veined whites & orange tip butterflies. plenty of Goldfinches.
#silentsunday
This article by the World Resources Institute shows how important it is that there is an infrastructure that enables individual decision-making to take place. For example, I’ve been vegetarian now for eight years, and it’s much easier to remove meat from your diet these days even than when I started to so in 2017. Likewise, because of investment in EV infrastructure, these days it’s unproblematic to own or lease an EV.
The idea of supportive infrastructure, policies or incentives rings true. My own situation makes an EV difficult: cost of an EV & charging when tenement living. My current job needs a 40 minute commute by car, or a couple of hours each way by public transport. I hope that is offset by not having a car till I was 49.
The page lined by Doug is a great read too: The Most Impactful Things You Can Do for the Climate | World Resources Institute
A damp drizzly day, took a #bloomstroll around Gartnavel hospital grounds. #bloomscrolling. A lot of bird song, everything ‘misty wet with rain’.
Piercing, whooping, cries — urgent, incisive and yet ethereal, then warbling loops of repetition — a series of peppering question marks, followed by afterthoughts trailing on the wind.
I do like curlews, their decline is depressing.
My class had a nice afternoon in the local woods, searching for mini beasts and drawing. While they were sitting in the dappled sunlight sketching bluebells I spotted this lovely speckled wood butterfly. We had already seem a few peacocks & green veined whites.
In reply to Colophon (April 2025) by .
As usual I am fascinated by your processes Aaron. Quite different from mine, so I have an itch to write my own colophon now.
I was also noticed you seem to have a taxonomy ‘series’ I’ve not noticed that else where. I am basing this on the links in the post meta.
I also wonder how you get on moving back and forth from classic to block on your two sites. To my surprise I am almost always in the block editor. Running some smoke tests on Glow Blogs at the weekend I was using classic for several posts and was a bit confused at times.
#silentsunday #walking