Hi, I’m Val. Welcome to my new backup account! I’m here for the photos: to share mine and to admire yours. Mostly of nature: flowers, insects (with content warning for all except butterflies that don’t seem to creep people out), my dog, the sky,... I’ll post here regularly but not too frequently. Kind of a ValLite™️ account.
You can also find me at: @dillyd (ValDeluxe™️) #introduction
Some of the hashtags I post to most often: #bloomscrolling#mosstodon#LichenSubscribe#SilentSunday#insects#snails#DogsOfMastodon
#Mosses & #lichen growing off a #SoapFlower tree. Lichen looks like hammered shield lichen but I'm not totally sure. I don't know what type of mosses these are. There's lots of fallen, tiny, soap berry petals on them.
Getting distracted by lichen now. I'd forgotten how excellent this spot was; really need to head back. Maybe I'll find out what this one saw that disturbed them so much.
A while back, the parish council in the village I grew up in decided to get some nice signage. They had an artist lined up, but one of the blokes on the council said he knew a guy who could do it on the cheap.
Anyhow, 25 years later and we still have this Children of the Stones nightmare fuel welcoming people to my apparently haunted childhood home.
The other half is gearing up to revive her YouTube channel. It was started in 2008 with short clips of the plants she lovingly tended in her garden. She was into her “third season” when a bushfire came through in 2011 and much of the garden was engulfed by the flames. The bushfire became her last video uploads.
Now, over a decade later, and Cilla is finally picking up her passion again, and plans to return to Cilla’s Garden. She’s currently doing time lapse videos of the cleanup. The gardens and pathways are all overgrown and she’s been inspired by lawn mowing time lapse videos of people cleaning up overgrown yards.
For gardening, weird plants, or just to follow “The New Adventures of Cilla’s Garden” when she begins uploading again, give Cilla a #LichenSubscribe!
"Howdy folks. 'Tis the season to watch yer aphid herd right close. Beware of them dastardly aphid rustlers lurking 'mongst the leaves. They go by the name of lacewings, but ain't nothin' delicate 'bout 'em. They'll try to fool ya by masqueradin' as harmless lichen. Wicked! spits"
-Ant leaning on a tiny barbwire fence tipping her 10mL hat at you