The Small Things Spreading Joy in October

Posted on by Kizzia

Still going, still necessary, still joyful. If you’re reading this and don’t know what it’s all in aid of then the post explaining everything is here and if you missed last month then that post is here.

Now, without further ado, here are all the photos I shared over on Twitter for the month:

Photo of the River Tern, gilded in morning light, banks full of willow and other trees reflecting yellow and green in the river.
Photo of a leaf strewn path that has been worn down (by many feet over many, many years) so that it is hemmed in by earth and tree roots. The rocks to the left are covered in moss and the sky is barely visible through the branches of the trees growing up from the banks and curving over the path.
Photo of a crocheted bag (for dice or runes or anything else small enough to fit) made using a dragon scale pattern with a black bottom and top and rainbow strips of scales making up the body. It looks like a very vivid pinecone and sits in full sunshine on an oak table with a chair and door in the background.
Photo of a Japanese style tea pot in turquoise sitting on a woven base, without its lid so that the hibiscus rose tea mix is visible. Behind the pot, on the tiled windowsill (tiles of turquoise of navy which the tea pot matches) is a leaded mirror and two Japanese style tea cups, each with a drawing of a cat waving its right front paw. The cats are a paler turquoise than the tea pot.
Photo of a black and white cat (black ears and body, white nose tip, bib and stomach) sitting beside a large metal bowl full of water. Behind the cat is a wall, black plastic drain pipe and white wooden door. Around the cats feet and the front of the bowl are dandelions and other weeds growing in the pavement stones.
Photo of a deep peachy orange rose, nearly fully open, covered in raindrops, as are the leaves and rosebud surrounding it.
Close up photo of a deep purple clematis flower covered in rain drops. The largest drop, at the bottom of the flower, looks almost like a chip of amethyst.
Photo of a book: A Wood of One’s Own by Ruth Pavey, held in my left hand, thumb with copper nail varnish visible. The front cover is an ink line and watercolour drawing of a woodland floor - all grass and leaves. Behind the book is a crocheted blanket in mottled shades of green and yellow, which matches the colours on the book cover well.
Photo of the trunk and lower canopy of a mature beech tree, dotted with sunlight. The ground around it is rusted with fallen leaves but above and behind it there remains much greenness. Small patches of blue sky can be glimpsed through the leaves.
Photo of a path covered in russet leaves passing between fully mature trees. The bottom of the trunks are dark but the leaf canopy overhead is bright with sunlight and the patches of sky visible between the leaves are pale blue.
Photo of a many petalled glossy red rose, the red too rich to be fully captured by the camera. In the centre the yellow stamens are just visible and the background is a lush green mix of grass and leaves.
Photo of a tote bag with a watercolour of large sleeping fox on it. The fox design, by Jackie Morris, is fluid and sinuous and the expression on the sleeping face is exquisite.
A close up photo of a very fluffy bee sitting on a group of pink Michaelmas Daisies. The photo has very clearly captured the wings of the bee, which appear to have veins in them.
Close up of a rather wet oak leaf turning from green to yellow. The veins in the leaf remain dark green, with the rest of the leaf fading to yellow from the centre . Spots of rusty orange can also be seen on the edges.
Photo of a Maid Marion rose about half way to fully open. It is an almost barbie pink, paler at the edges, and I surrounded by dark green leaves.
Close up of a fuchsia flower. The top leaves and stamen are a vivid, almost pillar box, red and the skirt is a luscious purple. In the background, more fuchsia buds, leaves, lawn and a tiny section of blue sky.
Photo of the hardback of Lost & Found; A Treasure Trove of Folk Tales by Elizabeth Garner. The centre of the cover is a gold printed apple, with the title and author written across it. The rest of the cover is black with white lines circling the apple like a whirlwind and a drawing of a thumb and forefingers reaching from the top right to grasp the stem of the apple. The book is set at an angle (top of book pointing to top left corner of the photo) on a crocheted blanket in shades of greens and yellows.
Close up of two Fly Agaric mushrooms (white underneath, red top with white spots), the ones associated with fairies and gnomes and which contain hallucinogens. The caps of the mushrooms are not whole, in fact they look very chewed up, with chunks missing at the front and the back.
Photo of two small patches of blue cloudy sky visible between the leaves of the tree canopy in the wood. The leaves are mostly green and yellow but a few are going rusty orange.
Photo of front cover of the Waterstone’s Limited Edition of Terry Pratchett’s official biography. The spine is dark green, the cover pistachio green Eocene cloth and there is a photo of Terry in trademark hat inset at the centre. His name is in white capital letters above the photo along with “A Life in Footnotes*” written in dark green. Below the photo in dark green is “*The Offical Biography” and then below that in white is “Rob Wilkins”.
Photo of two large white plate like fungi growing out of a moss covered tree bark, in the background, out of focus, are more trees and shrubs in shades of green and brown.
Photo of mottled brown plate-like fungi (possibly Daedaleopsis confragosa) growing out of a fallen tree trunk. The fungi is growing in overlapping layers. All around the tree trunk are russet brown and yellow fallen leaves.
Close up photo of an acorn lying on the floor of the wood next to a tiny mushroom of indeterminate species but which is possibly a sulphur tuft mushroom. The acorn is burnished brown with a pale cream end and the mushroom is pale cream with a slightly darker tip and shaped like an umbrella.
Photo of a blanket crocheted using a wool that is a mix of greens and yellows. In the centre of the photo is a shard of light in all the colours of the rainbow.
Close up photo of a flat top mushroom which is mainly a pale cream colour with pinkish brown edges and pink spots over the middle. It’s growing in mossy ground with grass and fallen leaves all around it.
Close up photo of bright red hawthorn berries surrounded by vivid yellow green leaves. Both leaves and berries glisten wetly in the morning light.
Close up of a mossy log absolutely covered in small mushrooms; I counted more than 50 before it became impossible to distinguish between the ones at the far back of the photo. The mushrooms are damp, as is the moss, the mushrooms various shades of brown and beige and the moss a lovely bright green. There is tiny patch of exposed bark on the log at the front right of the photo.
Photo of a red flat topped mushroom growing on the woodland floor. It is surrounded by orange and brown leaves and directly behind it tiny saplings are sprouting upwards. In the background the bare trunks of trees and a patch of blue sky are visible.

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that there are only 28 photos above, not 31 as there should be. I missed one day because I was flattened by a cold and didn’t managed to do anything. As for the other two, well one was a video, not a photo and the other was a retweet of someone else’s photo, so I am embedding those tweets below instead.

If twitter does suddenly fall over (which is much more likely now that it was a month ago, I’ll have to find another way to include those last two things. However the Muskrat’s incompetence will not stop the continuation of this little project as I have revived my Mastodon account (which I opened in 2020 and promptly forgot about) and have started to post daily there as well.

The twitter chaos has also prompted me to finally set up my own proper landing page which provides links to everywhere I can be found on the web plus a contact form should you wish to get in touch privately. I’d be grateful if you could take a quick look and let me know if anything is not working as it should (or just looks odd).

Until next month may we all find the stamina and courage to be who we need to be to get done what needs to be done.

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