Ian Ebbage

Peacocks for #mosaicmonday, here with vine tendrils & a basket of grapes. Well-observed, good quality work with, in the lower border, a striking decorative tromp-l'oeil ribbon set against a dark background & picking up colouring from the birds' plumage. Antioch 2-4c CE

A 17c tapestry featuring themes from Cervantes 'Don Quixote' in the dining-room in Cawdor Castle in Nairnshire #tapestrytuesday

Some evergreen colour from Pinus parviflora (from Japan) in the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens #thicktrunktuesday

In the garden yesterday... #birdwatching

The rather splendid grave of George, 15th Earl of Sutherland (1633-1703) and his wife, Lady Jane Wemyss, with some #mementomori symbols at the bottom, in the ruined Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh #memorialmonday #mementomorimonday

@KevinRi64032868 We discovered Portpatrick in 2021. A charming place, and good for seeing the guillemots.

@ianebbage1 I probably saw my 1st one there in 70s. my dad , his golfing friends, wives and lots of kids were annual visitors to the big hotel.

Black Guillemot in the harbour at Port Patrick in Galloway #SuperSeabirdSunday

At the door of St Clement's in Cambridge #stoneworksunday

Remains of the Castle of Saranta Kolones (40 Columns) in Paphos in Cyprus: originally 7c Byzantine, built to protect the Port of Neo Paphos from Arab invaders, and later taken over by Lusignan Crusaders #castlesaturday

... and this week "The Queen of Holderness": 14c St Patrick's in Patrington, widely regarded as the most handsome church in the area #steeplesaturday

@DailyPicTheme2 #Lookout on Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk, framed by Dame Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man

Friday 20th March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is 'Lookout' 🪟 RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Morning Beverage' #DailyPictureTheme

Today is St Cuthbert's Day: "The Journey" by Fenwick Lawson: hooded monks carrying the coffin of St Cuthbert when they left Lindisfarne in 875 (in St Mary's, Lindisfarne)

A Marsh Frog in the Sacred Spring at the Sanctuaries of Isis and Demeter at Dion in Greece #worldfrogday

Tudor-revival in Chester's Eastgate #shopfrontfriday

@TheHistoryMouse @CathyRLowe Thanks. It's always good to hear from people who actually know something about these buildings.

Time for a #NerdyMouseAlert: look away now if you don't like minute technical detail. Early stone building and probably originally a 'Hall House'. Zoom right to see blocked 2-centred openings replaced by C16/C17 mullioned windows. Lovely TTM🐭 (finialed #Ogee porch @CathyRLowe)

The entrance to the Kykkos Monastery in the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. Originally founded in 11c by Alexios I Komenos, it was rebuilt in the 1970s after damage by fire #adoorablethursday

@WriterHannahBT First one heard here on 6th March

THE CHIFFCHAFFS HAVE ARRIVED!!!! Have you heard any yet?

Along the coast this morning: Shags at Dunbar Harbour; large numbers of passerines at Barns Ness, including: Skylark; Reed Bunting; Song Thrush #EastLothian #birdwatching

Manor House Farm in Meare in Somerset was built in 14c as a Summer residence for the Abbots of Glastonbury #windowsonwednesday

A Ringed Plover on the East Lothian coast #waderwednesday

@DailyPicTheme2 In Bantry

Tuesday 17th March Today’s Daily Picture Theme is 'Irish' ☘️ RT or reply with your own photo Tomorrow’s theme will be 'Journey' #DailyPictureTheme