Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸

@organicbotanic

Public Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer: memoir, poetry, children’s stories. Identiplant, AI, education, climate, UCU, 🦠Covid 🇪🇺N Ireland 🐸 Resist Blue Sky 3/9/23 🚫🚫b0ts, zero posts, accounts with ++b0ts following, no biog

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 9d

Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Mayweed thriving despite drought #Sail #Sailing #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Large cluster of Mayweed flowers growing near the breakwater - a few boats show in upper part of photo - that is wether they unload the Scallops

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 9d

Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Ragwort is unofficially the national flower. Seen very little of it as it is strictly controlled #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

One plant of Ragwort flowering in front of seed heads of Perennial Sow Thistle with Peel Castle walls behind

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 9d

Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle Wild Thyme and Sea Pink (Thrift) flowering on lower slopes of Peel #Hill very close to the sea #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A close of of Wild Thyme flowers and leaves

One head of Thrift (Sea Pink) against a blue sky

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 9d

Happily in #Peel on #IsleofMan for #ByTheSea challenge, near #Castle A few flowers left on Tree Mallow with detail needing macro tomorrow & irresistible seed-heads #Stunday #ECK #IOM #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

One purple Tree Mallow flower with almost luminous green anthers. The flower is purple but seems pink

Tree Mallow Seed heads with a pattern of five lines radiating towards centre of each head

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 13d

From Bangor #NI to #Peel #IsleofMan #IoM #Sailing with Ship’s Cat Grateful for light airs and slight sea. #Caturday 🐈‍⬛ #LongHair #Black #Cat 🐈‍⬛ #Tammy #Tamara #Adopt #CatsOfBlueSky #RescueCats #BornFeral

Black long haired cat sitting looking at viewer

View at sea showing sailing yacht to left and Copeland island on horizon with a yellow and black cardinal nearby buoy showing we should steer to left of it

View of morning sky behind breakwater at Bangor marina

The black cat again, keeping a look out, laying flat and alert

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 23d

Drought #NI < England. All usual flowering just Himalayan Balsam wilting. Selfheal >tall than usual. #WildFlowerHour #StillFlowering @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #ImageAndVerse #JohnClare line in Summer Tints: "Beans lightly scorch'd" #Stunday #ECK

Himalayan Balsam leaves wilting where ground dry

Selfheal seems taller than usual this year

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· 25d

The screen shot still looks like wax model in Madame Tussauds

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jul 4

@hcrichardson.bsky.social South China Morning Post today has interesting poll on US for 250th - here a screen shot for you. Choices are Tech Renaissance (through AI) Graceful Decline Internal Attrition (from massive debt/extreme polarisation Isolationism Morph into unpredictable new paradigm

South China Morning Post today: poll on US for 250th screen shot.

Choices are
Tech Renaissance (through AI)
Graceful Decline
Internal Attrition (from massive debt/extreme polarisation
Isolationism
Morph into unpredictable new paradigm

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jul 4

@drsmith.bsky.social The beginning of the end? Can't see all of this 30th June SCMP piece but pricing is going to bite usage on the posterior.

A screen shot of a short piece from the South China Morning Post on prices for Deep Seek AI usage being doubled

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 30

Think this was sane yellow one:

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 30

Wondering if there is enough in these to id please? @botany-jen.bsky.social Thank you for having a look

Purple flowered small thistle against green background of other plants

Yellow flowered type of ragwort photographed in from if Bann River

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 28

First time I've seen the flowers of Elodea canadensis (Canadian waterweed). Most female in Brit & Ireland. Blocks waterways, forms monoculture mats. #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

One tiny pink female flower of a pondweed

The leaves of this pondweed underwater shown against the green background of a Lily pad

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 28

Himalayan Balsam (photos '25). Check before you "bash": concerns it may clear path for other noxious plants. 2M tall shades all other plants out. #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Mainly green stems reaching 2 m tall and some purple flowers in sunlight at top with trees above that

One H balsam flower like a poor man’s orchid - quite a pretty pale purple flower

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 28

Drone photo: Giant Hogweed, like white Chrysanthemums bouquet: #InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpeciesWeek Tree tall. View: Riverside towards Mountsandel Wood, Coleraine Photo by partner Skip #Stunday #ECK #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Photo from above, using drone showing edge of brown River Bann, small beach, woodland trees behind and a cluster of Giant Hogweed flowering with white heads. Enormously tall towering tall beside trees

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 27

Apparently Fine Art and Atlas carrying the weight of the world. ???

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 24

beautiful breeze in N of #NI today, around 3 knots in my home & 21.5C #weather #heatwave @unofficialnewsni.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk @barrabest.bsky.social t.bsky.social @stormhour.com @loveballymena.online @cmjohnston.bsky.social @annlizkelly.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 21

"How doth the busy bee improve each shining hour, & gather honey all the day from every opening flower!" Isaac Watts #Rathlin Sea Radish #Pollinatorpals #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 21

"to the bee a flower is a fountain of life" Kahlil Gibran from On Pleasure On Hawksbeard: Female Andrena sp confirmed by BWARS #Rathlin #Pollinatorpals #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 15

This indeed! #Tammy #blackcat #catsofSky #longhair #yellow #sailing #crew @breeze420.bsky.social

Photo of long haired black cat with yellow eyes sitting peeking out from long grass with one yellow buttercup showing top left

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 14

Scatter my ashes in blue of Speedwells and bird song. Enjoy sounds of Wren, Blackbird, Robin and Thrush #ChurchyardFlowers #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageandVerse

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 14

From #Camus for #ChurchyardFlowers Elderflower #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "When the Elder Tree’s in flower...Summer’s really come again!" Cicely Mary Barker The Elder Flower Fairy #ImageandVerse

To left elder flowers, middle - a grave stone, behind both a yew tree for sorrow.

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 14

A favourite for #ChurchyardFlowers Stinking Iris #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "from the center of my life came a great fountain, deep blue shadows on azure seawater." Louise Glück #ImageandVerse

Two flowers of one of two native Irises - the other being Yellow Flag. It is pale blue and like a painting. The poet writes of the Wild Iris:

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.

Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.

You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:

from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 14

2 for #ChurchyardFlowers ( #Rathlin #Island & #Camus ) Befitting a memorial Forget-me-nots #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "Seven blue gems, To set in the gold of my memory." #Untermeyer #ImageandVerse

Words from a poem called Forget-me-nots:
The bank curved under its crown of forget-me-nots;
They shone like blue jewels from the further shore.
And they were free! I could have had them all
To gather and to carry in my arms!
But I took only a few,
Seven blue gems,
To set in the gold of my memory.

Pale blue tiny flowers set against a grey wall: Forget-me-nots at a Churchyard

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 14

2 for #ChurchyardFlowers ( #Rathlin #Island & #Camus ) #Noticing quality of biodiversity & mindfulness. #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK "sweet Daisy!...The Poet's darling." #Wordsworth #ImageandVerse

At the foot of Yew in a Church yard (Camus) - many daisies photographed from underneath them

At the foot of tombstones on Rathlin one buttercup to left, the rest are daisies

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 8

#Breaking “A federal judge on Monday declared a $100,000 fee that Donald #Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is #unlawful and must be invalidated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A screen shot of news item just released here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-invalidated?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 8

I do have daisies with unidentified birdsong on a small island. But no owls!

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 7

On #Rathlin Fox & Cubs (Devil's Paintbrush) #Lawnflowers #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #Stunday #ECK #ImageAndVerse Lady Liberty "symbol of freedom & hope...every thought a paintbrush" Desirée Alvarez #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Orange flower sometimes called Devils paintbrush. The poet named write a book by same name. Quite is from her poem called Lady Liberty: “ Hot.
We need liberty in this city.
I always win but I never score.
Freedom is the lock to life that we need to open.
A great gift.
French people are nice.
She’s a girl.
Greener than money.
She is made out of copper.
The symbol of freedom and hope.
The symbol of “we made it.”
I am finally free from my torture and darkness. Free. Free. Free.
I can stand at the top and wonder what will happen if I just drop!!
They say it’s the land of the free.
I don’t trust buddies.
Love is not when you live with somebody. It’s when you live for somebody.
Even when I die, I’ll still keep you in mind.
Liberty is its name but it’ll never be the same.
It might sink or fall.
It might get flooded.
Sometimes all you have to do is breathe and keep it moving.
Time slips through our fingers.
Every person is an artist and every thought is a brush.”

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 7

On #Rathlin seeding #Daisy for #Lawnflowers #Noticing #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageAndVerse "Thou long the Poet's praise shall gain" #Wordsworth #ColorADay #OrangeSun

Two blurry daisies bottom left and one almost central had no white “petals” left and is slightly orange not just yellow

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 7

On #Rathlin tousled #Daisy for #Lawnflowers #Noticing #WildFlowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #ECK #ImageAndVerse "Thou long the Poet's praise shall gain" #Wordsworth #LetItBloom #June

One daisy close with narrow depth so the grassy green background is burry.The outer white “petals” are pink underneath and curled back over the yellow central parts

Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸🔸🐸@organicbotanic· Jun 3

Suspecting Nettle has aphids & #Ladybird stops now and then to eat. Web search suggests they eat 50 aphids per day! #Rathlin #Island #WildlifeWednesday #WildWebsWednesday @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #ECK