Ali

@alibutterfly

Mother, sister, daughter, teacher, caregiver, knitter, crafter, fair weather gardener. Seeking some joy after a super difficult year. Thankful for the poetry community on Bluesky and the distraction of the arts challenges 💕. 👩‍🏫 📚 📘 🧶 🧵🪡 🩺 🪴🌼 💔 ✍️

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Ali@alibutterfly· 24d

#PurpleFriday #ECK #bloomscolling #Purple #Flower #photography #photographersofbluesky Spear thistle flower My garden, today.

A spiky purple spear thistle flower - pictured from above the flower.

Ali@alibutterfly· 26d

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind #Dog A #photo from a #dogwalk in #Suffolk a little while ago. This was the first time our puppy had seen a #sunset. We were trying to #walk in the other direction but she kept turning back, sitting down, and gazing at glowing ball behind us.

In the forground a puppy faces away from the camera almost a silhouette against the darkening field that she is gazing across. Her fur is lit around the edges by an orange glow and her head is cocked as she tries to work out what the strange sight she is looking at could be. On the horizon the setting sun can be seen as a ball of yellow surrounded by layers of orange that darken as they get further away from the sun. To the right of the sun are the silhouettes of bare trees (this was January).

Ali@alibutterfly· 29d

#Wildflowerhour #AquaticPlants Posting a tad late but we have some very striking #Purple Loosestrife or Sage Willow (Lythrum Salicaria) on the edge of the pond in front of our house right now. Enjoy this pop of colour. 🙂

A small section of a pond surrounded by green reeds and aquatic plants with a pop of colour from a purple loose strife plant to the right of the picture. At the bottom of the picture in front of the plants can be seen the top rail, painted black , from a set of iron railings that’s around the pond.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 11

#gardening #UKgardening #bloomscrolling My offering for #sixonsaturday this week: plants in #bud - some for the first time, some making a comeback. We have a #rose, #allium #osteospermum, #passionflower, #buddleja. The #Ameria was beheaded by the dog last week but new buds are appearing already.

A collage of flower buds from top left to bottom left : rose, allium, osteospermum, armeria, passion flower, buddleja.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 11

#BlueSkyArtShow #quiet #ColorADay #GreenSat #photo #dog #walking #getoutdoors #countryside Grateful for the relief of an overcast morning after unrelenting heat of recent days. #Dogwalk in Orwell Country Park, #Suffolk, a little dull without the sunshine, but cool, green, peaceful & by the water.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 10

#countryside #walking #getoutdoors #ThePhotoHour #photography This morning’s #dogwalk took us past this field of wheat near Thornham, #Suffolk. So peaceful.

A golden filed of wheat. A clear blue sky except for one white cloud in the centre of the picture.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 9

#vss365 #haiku #poetry #frolic Purple ribbons sway Scent of summer fills the air #Frolic with the bees. Inspired by a peacock butterfly collecting nectar on the lavender as I arrived home today. Busy bumblebees were humming all around. #butterfly #wildlife #nature #lavender #pollinators #photo

Peacock butterfly with deep reddish forewings, with with spots circled by yellow and blotched with red. On the brown hindwings are darker spots with a bright blue center.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 5

#WildflowerHour #Climbingplants #Pink #Flower #UKWildflower #Wildflower #Bloomscrolling Lathyrus latifolius (Everlasting Pea). Pretty in pink, with a climbing habit, but its vigorous spread means it would have felt just as ‘at home’ in last week’s category. #Coast, Felixstowe #Suffolk

Fan shaped bright pink flower of the Everlasting Pea plant introduced to the UK in the 15th Century.

A cluster of bright pink Everlasting Pea flowers.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 5

#Stunday #Dahlia #Dailydahlia #flowers #flower #bloomscrolling #gardening #pink A slightly garish addition to my dahlia collection, but I love it! ‘Dutch Explosion’ - Stunning - 🤩

Hot pink tips and a white centre on this stunning dahlia flower- it’s almost strawberries and cream - perfect for Wimbledon!

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 4

#sixonsaturday #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers I have added to my #dahlia collection this week with a pink and white variety called ‘Dutch Explosion’. Had to get the #yarrow to match 🤣. Last #passionflower for now. 😢. #Lavender at the front of house is humming with various visiting bees.

A grid showing different flowers. Four smaller squares on left, from top down show lavender with a visiting buff-tailed bumblebee, pink and white yarrow, cerise dahlia, and passion flower. The two larger squares on the right contain a pink and white dahlia above more lavender, this time with a red-tailed bumblebee.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jul 2

#poetry #rhyme #emoetry #prompts #twitchy #wanton #adulation #unashamed #shaken #perplexed A spot of catching up! Thanks for the prompts. 😊

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 28

#dailydahlia #bloomscrolling #stunday #flower #purple Garden #Dahlia ‘Velvet Crush’ My garden, today.

Purple garden dahlia with dark flower centres and purple pink petals.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 28

#vss365 #flea #poetry

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 27

#Pink #Flower #UKWildflower #Wildflower #Bloomscrolling #Poppy #purple. A poppy in the wild. It looks like tissue paper in the light breeze. So pretty. 🌸 #Walking #Suffolk.

A large pink poppy in a field with long grasses and daisies, spotted on a dog walk in Suffolk.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 24

#vss365 #pull #lurch #poetry

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 24

#RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #Pink #Rose Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, #Suffolk

Large pink rose flower with two rosebuds, dark green leaves and a hint of blue sky above a pathway through the gardens.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 20

#sixonsaturday #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers. #rose #passionflower #dahlia #honeysuckle #grassnut #scabious Passion flowers a bit smaller this year. Rose doing well. The little blue bulbs were from a mixed box from Tesco. They didn’t work last year so it’s great to see them dotted around.

A collage of six different photographs of flowers from the back garden. From top left, moving clockwise, we have a pink rose, a passion flower, a scabious, a honeysuckle, grassnut bulbs, and a beautiful deep cerise Dahlia.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 18

#vss365 #clench #poetry

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 17

#vss365 #fiend #novel #poetry #rhyme #purple #rose #rosewednesday Her petals, so novel, hold sweet-scented bait; this fiend robed in velvet, whose thorns lay in wait.

A fully blooming purple rose surrounded by rosebuds at various stages of development. Pictured in Felixstowe Rose Garden, Suffolk.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 15

#ColorADay + #PinkMon #Bloomscrolling #flowers #pink #foxglove #rose Pink border at Helmingham Hall #Suffolk today.

A pretty pink flower border with Foxgloves against a backdrop of roses.

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 14

For #wildflowerhour this Sunday, a selection of #ChurchyardFlowers from St. Mary’s #Church, Woodbridge, #Suffolk. Green alkanet, Rough hawkbit, Cranesbill, Herb Robert, Daisy, Creeping cinquefoil, Red valerian, Poppy, Rose, Mock strawberry. @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

Ali@alibutterfly· Jun 14

#Eastcoastkin #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #Sundayyellow #Stunday #Yellow #Rose Felixtowe Rose Garden #Suffolk

A cluster of four loosely folding yellow petal rose flowers standing proud of the rose bush.

Ali@alibutterfly· May 30

#SenseWrds #prompt 226 Nights, Somber, Lost #poetry #vss365 #Wondrous

Ali@alibutterfly· May 27

#vss365 #Immerse #tethered #crevasse #poetry #poem

Ali@alibutterfly· May 25

It’s happened in five of the screw holes on our hosepipe casing this year too.

Ali@alibutterfly· May 25

#ColorADay #PinkMon #bloomscrolling #rose #poetry #poem #wildwalkprompt You return once again To your English rose, But can’t utter “You’re Beautiful.” She wears her pain as Mottled pallor, Verdant hope run dry. That pretty pink flush Belongs to the other; Stolen #rays to light the lie.

The photograph shows our David Austin rose named ‘Your Beautiful’, displaying its first soft pink blooms of the year, pictured against a blue sky. Some of the green leaves have turned a mottled yellow (we thought we were overwatering but it has got worse since we held back on the watering!)

Ali@alibutterfly· May 21

#vss365 #linger #poetry

Ali@alibutterfly· May 17

#Abstractia #Texture #photography #dog #cavapoo

A photograph of a cavapoo with soft textured (naturally crimped) windswept fur standing against a tough textured concrete surface.

Ali@alibutterfly· May 16

#ECK #greensat #photography #fern #vss365 #poetry #moonbeam It unfurls slowly, Deliberately, #diligently, Covering decay Wrought by cold grey Years of dismay. Dewdrops gather still, And lay, and pool, and fall— #Forgiveness is not forgetting, And hurt, stark as day, Rests where moonbeams sway.

The crosier or ‘fiddlehead’ of a green fern just beginning to unfurl.

Ali@alibutterfly· May 14

#bloomscrolling #flower #iris #yellow #lake #water #coloraday #YellowThu ‘Yellow Flag’ Iris seen on a dog walk yesterday evening. Needham Lake #Suffolk