Matt P

@bertolicus.bsky.social

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Plant-based runner prone to long distance silliness, paddler, sourdough baker, lazy gardener, slave to a house-wolf and wannabe botanist 🌲🐺🌱🏃‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

A view down into a green(ish) valley under a patchy layer of cloud.
Large shiny leaves nestling amongst grasses on a road verge.
Elevation profile for a run; steeply up at the start followed by a series of peaks - no flat ground til the final 5k
A row of weathered orange lifeboats under a flat grey sky
Brilliant yellows carpeting steep ground leading down to a rugged inlet of the sea
Grassy green hills rolling off into tue landskein. Sadly no bison sweeping majestically
Hemerocalis Rotes Rathaus, burning red flowers with a golden throat
A nondescript grey polyester bag held in one hand
Spot the hound - husky mix surprisingly well camouflaged against a stony river bed. Scots pine trees and blue sky in the background
Assorted packets of drool inducing delicious gourmet freeze dried meals
Pale lemon yellow exotic looking flower with garden and doggo blurring in the background
A grumpy faced toad on a stony path surrounded by grass
Brightly variegated leaves
A panoramic view of green hills under a big grey clouded sky
A fine stile in s less fine fence with a very fine view beyond - rolling hills with ripening wheat and barley
A herd of ducks, peeping their way through dry grass
Shudder inducing reddish splotchy walnut leaves
A flight of orange and yellow daylily flowers
A coiled Adder, basking quietly on a sunny gravel track
A spinning panorama taking in a blue sky with cumulus clouds, heather, regenerating spruce trees and a pile of rocks next to a perfectly good trig point
Rose Summer Song, vermillion?
Heavy rain hitting the purple leaves of a Japanese maple
Elevation profile and heart rate graph for an uphill interval run; 4 longer intervals, four short and sharp
Acid lime-green-yellow golden marjoram cosying up to smoky purple-green Sedum
Tiny grey-beige mushrooms, rimmed with white, growing beside Oncidium orchid pseudobulbs
Narrow gravelly trail disappearing off through heather clad hillside into the valley below
A flower spike of crested dogs tail grass back lit by the morning sun, anthers in full view
A bumblebee about to dive headfirst into a purple-pink Melancholy thistle flowerhead
Deep blue flowers of Wolfsbane, yellow stemmed bamboo Castillonis and purple-red Smokebush behind
A bright purple-pink thistle flower
Pale blue bell-shaped flowers of a small leaved plant growing in s stone and mortar wall
A lot of fresh green foliage along a shady gravel track
Red and green narrow boat upon a mirror calm body of water, surrounded by trees under a milk of magnesia sky
A solid swathe of cabbagey oilseed rape and a vanished footpath that needed napalm or a very sharp machete
Gnarly old multi stemmed oak, lit by dappled evening sun
A close up of silvery mollusc trails high ip on a building
Two frothy yellow flowers of Intersectional peony Bartzella
Full lemon yellow flower of a peony dotted with raindrops in morning sunshine
Rich purple petals of Iris splashed with gold and raindrops
Handsome husky type hound looking all jaunty
A foaming river shaded by arborescent greenery
A dark stormy sky as backdrop to colourful hillside house and a church spire caught in evening sun, all reflected in the river below
a large clump of bright blue-violet Campanula flowers growing from a grey wall and into a pale green leylandii hedge
Pale lemon yellow daisy flowers of mouse ear hawkweed in a fake stone trough
Description of an ultra run in Norway, describing the route as being in Murder terrain!
Yellow tulip flower edged with a fine line of red, a pure yellow green tulip, and several deep red ones
Brilliant pale yellow-green streaking of otherwise dark green leaves
A queen wasp busily chewing wood fibres from a weathered fence post
A bundle of hawthorn flowers, white with pinky anthers
Rich blue flower with a white eye, nestled amongst its hairy stems
a stately downy birch, tucked amongst a host of much younger trees
Distorted fat emerging leaves of beech, remaining tightly folded and wrapped in brown bud scales
Female holly flowers, a hint of pink on the backs of the four creamy petals
Boiling monochrome cloudscape
A cluster of young ash tree fruits, some blackened and killed by frost
Coiled copper-scaled croziers of Dryopteris wallichiana (i think) uncoiling, yellow culms of bamboo Phyllostachys bambusoides Castillonis behind
Summary statistics for a long run; bit nippy, bit knackered now
Lime green Salix phyllicifolia catkin
A butterfly at rest on a pale pink cuckoo flower, wings folded and showing a maze of green and white mottling
A pair of tree trunks growing close to each other, fused at one point like they’re smooching