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Winter is tired. She longs to lie down in the arms of spring among the sweet white blossoms and the ripening buds of new beginnings. ✍️March by Caroline Mellor 📷my garden daffs 🏵️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling

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When Modomnoc left #Wales to return to his homeland of #Ireland his bees followed him overhead. He returned the bees to St David's monastery but they followed him to the port a 2nd & 3rd time. Finally, David gave his blessing; introducing bees to Ireland for the 1st time💫 #FolkyFriday #StDavidsEve

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In the Irish language, a gust of wind is called 'Gaoithe Sídhe' (or Sí) which translates as 'Fairy Wind' There are lovely accounts comparing the loud humming noise of the wind to that of a thousand bees When the hum is heard, it signals the passing of a fairy host 💫🐝💫 #FolkloreThursday #Bees

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I'm a newcomer to #Adoorable Thursday! 📍Taken a week ago at the Alcazar of Seville, #Spain 🔆

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The Bee Brick is a mandatory addition to new construction projects in the UK. They provide tiny homes for solitary bees; the most prolific pollinators 🐝

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'There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance...is like directing the sunbeams' ✍️Henry David Thoreau: 'Paradise(to be)Regained' 1843 #bees #writing #bookchatweekly #nature🌿

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Ligated furrow bee on Bitter buttons (Halictus ligatus on Tanacetum vulgare) September in Chicago #nativeBees #bees #halictus #nature #flowers #gardening #gardens #pollinators #macro #photography

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Some bee swarm charms: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/swa... #folklore #beekeeping #bees #folkloring #charms #medieval #herbalmedicine #ritual #spells

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I collected a story from a woman in Co Cork who described a widow visiting the grave of her deceased husband, a beekeeper When she reached the grave, it was laden with bees & butterflies. She believed they were paying their last respects to their beloved keeper 🐝 #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #Bees

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Taking the phrase 'look me straight in the eye' to a whole new level. Happy #caturday folks. #catsofbluesky

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A tradition unique to Ireland is making a special concoction on May Day that can be used to prevent bees from swarming It involves blending equal measures of herbs & butter and applying this thick paste onto beehives. Bees won't budge! 💫🐝💫 #FolkyFriday #Beekeeping #Folklore #Herbs🌿 🎨Jane Carkill

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Good Afternoon When bees dream. Stephanie Law

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This is the glorious sleeping giant off the coast of #Dingle; one of the most beautiful places in #Ireland along the #Kerry coast. Story goes that the giant ate a big stew & simply fell asleep in the sea 🌊 #LegendaryWednesday #WyrdWednesday #Folklore #Speirgorm #Sunset

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And if you feel you don't belong, remember that the brightest wildflowers always grow at the edges of the wheat field. ✍️Edges, Caroline Mellor 🎨wonderful illustrator Jane Carkill #poetry #foodforthought #bookwormsat #bookchatweekly #booksky #spéirgorm #naturesky #flowers 🌿🐝

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As well as being patron saint of love & romance, legend says #StValentine was a beekeeper & was regarded as the patron saint of beekeepers (as was #StAmbrose) He was charged with the protection of beekeepers, having a gentle, caring disposition & a love of bees💕🐝 #FolkyFriday #StValentinesDay

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'...You must catch a wild bee, he said, and hold it in your closed hand...if the bee does not sting, then you will know you have found true love...' ✍️Truman Capotes' short story 'House of Flowers' 🎨Claire Murthy #Folkyfriday #Valentines #Bookchatweekly #Bees #Love 💕

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Insect Thursday #InsectThursday #insectphotography #flowerphotography #gardening #flowers #savethebees #pollinators #photography #PhotographyIsArt

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Gobnait has a foothold in many hearts across Ireland In folklore, she's a fierce warrior & patroness of the bees🐝 Today, there's a Gobnait zeitgeist! In #Dingle a 6ft puppet of her will feature in #BealtaineFestival 2025 'Til then, happy feast day patroness! 💫🐝💫 #11Feb #StGobnait #HarryClarke

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Greek mythology shares many stories about Melissa or Melissae, but being the goddess of the bees is most noteworthy She is described as a nymph who discovered the use of honey (which she fed to Zeus) & it is from her that bees received their name 💫🐝💫 #BookWormSat #GreekMythology #Goddess #Bees

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I'm trying out this folk cure for a burn ointment, recorded from a beekeeper in Co. Galway in 1959: ~Dock Leaves ~Nóinín (Daisies) ~Unsalted butter ~Bark of an Elder Tree ~Beeswax 🐝 Wouldn't Nóinín make a lovely girl's name?! 🌼💫🌼 #FolkyFriday #Folkcure #Horticulture #Gardens #Plants #Herbalism🌿

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Looking forward to this! A webinar exploring the intelligence of bees 🐝 #bees #beekeeping #insects #nature 🌿

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Today, I visited #StBrigids hometown of Kildare With a fine bunch of women, we collected water from her holy well & attached brat bríde on the tree overhead It was the perfect celebration of Ireland's Celtic Goddess & the beginning of Spring 💫 #Spéirgorm #Imbolc #StBrigidsDay #Folklore #Spring🌿

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'I am the dream of awakening. I am the returning of the light. I am the tough green shoot pushing up through the pavestones, I am the first kiss of sunlight on the unfurling petals of the snowdrop...' ✍️Imbolc by Caroline Mellor #BookWormSat #Poetry #Imbolc #StBrigidsDay #Nature 🌿

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How lovely! 💫 Thank you so much for your kind words @emmadragon.bsky.social. So happy you're enjoying it! 💛 🐝 #booksky #bookchatweekly #spéirgorm #bees #folkyfriday #nature🌿

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The eve of #Imbolc & #StBrigit are celebrated tonight, 31 Jan & tomorrow marks the start of Spring💐 Biddy Boys would visit homes wearing straw costumes & a cloth or Brat Bríde was placed on trees overnight Mine is in place, for now! It will ward off illness for the year ahead💫 #FolkyFriday #cats

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