”The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.” ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #winter #snow #birds #birding #doves #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness #TheWorldIsStillBeautiful
”The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.” ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #winter #snow #birds #birding #doves #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness #TheWorldIsStillBeautiful
"Joy, gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love
Accompany your hearts!"
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5 Scene I
“Daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white.” ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour's Lost (# 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵)
#SilentSunday#ShakespeareSunday #bloomscrolling #flora #purple #nature#NaturePhotography#SolaceInNature#DelightOverDarkness
“Daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white.” ~ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour's Lost (# 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵)
#SilentSunday#ShakespeareSunday #bloomscrolling #flora #purple #nature#NaturePhotography#SolaceInNature#DelightOverDarkness
"O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer
That knew the stars as I his characters;"
- #ShakespeareSunday, Cymbeline
Approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, this is the Andromeda Galaxy (aka M 31 / NGC 224) with its "companion" galaxies M 32 and M 110.
Imaged from Fife, #Scotland using a Zwo SeeStar S30 smart telescope, during the night of 16th - 17th August 2025.
"O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer
That knew the stars as I his characters;"
- #ShakespeareSunday, Cymbeline
Approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, this is the Andromeda Galaxy (aka M 31 / NGC 224) with its "companion" galaxies M 32 and M 110.
Imaged from Fife, #Scotland using a Zwo SeeStar S30 smart telescope, during the night of 16th - 17th August 2025.
"But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
In his dim mist the aspiring mountain hiding,
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their biding,
Hindering their present fall by this dividing."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Rape of Lucrece
The August 2014 - February 2015 #Holuhraun #eruption of Bárðarbunga¹ in south-east central #Iceland, imaged in September 2014.
¹ 𝘽𝙖𝙬-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳-𝘣𝘶𝘯-𝘬𝘦
"But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,
In his dim mist the aspiring mountain hiding,
From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,
Which blows these pitchy vapours from their biding,
Hindering their present fall by this dividing."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Rape of Lucrece
The August 2014 - February 2015 #Holuhraun #eruption of Bárðarbunga¹ in south-east central #Iceland, imaged in September 2014.
¹ 𝘽𝙖𝙬-𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘳-𝘣𝘶𝘯-𝘬𝘦
