Robbie Rowe

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Healthcare scientist, naturalist, spotterish Omnivorous reader and book collector (modern firsts, nature writing, climate fiction) He / Him Fediverse presence: @privateshufti@mastodon.social

A large clump of yellow daisy-like flowers in bright sunlight
Cover of Hookland Fragments featuring Bone Bear linocut by Maria Strutz, along with Hookland 'right to reside' postcard. Both displayed on a sun-dappled wooden table in the ghost orchard
Album cover for Jethro Tull's Heavy Horses, featuring a bearded man in tweeds leading 2 shire horses in harness
3 small butterflies nectaring on yellow flowers, with wings slightly open to reveal their copper-and-black wings. The background is parched grass
Stamp depicting a shimmering Blodeuwedd framed between twisted trees, with a barn owl trailing a ghostly wake
A large olive and pink striped moth at rest
Four figs in a white bowl, on a varnished wooden table
A yellow butterfly with dark forewing tips perched on parched ground
Just 4 herring gulls relaxing in the park
Gothic staircase with a stained glass lampshade hanging from a cupola with 4 quatrefoil windows
Close-up of hawthorn flowers, also known as Mayflower
Gulls silhouetted against a cloudy sky
Screenshot of weather forecast showing predicted heat of 31 C today, rising to 35 C tomorrow
Still from the film Midsommar, with the new queen Florence Pugh garlanded in flowers
A large black and dark chestnut beetle resting on a birch log, framed by leaves
A spruce pine that has been stripped of bark and foliage except for the top branches, with a ring of greenery decorated with colourful ribbons near the top
A large butterfly on the ground with wings folded. The underwings are patterned with brown and white markings. The iridescent purple in the upper forewings is sadly completely hidden
A large orange, black and white butterfly with wings spread, perched on a flower
A dark bumblebee with a red tip to the abdomen, hanging beneath a white flower
A clump of pines upon a hill, it's flanks garbed in bluebells, viewed over a canopy of woodland in spring foliage
Large ichneumon wasp with a very long ovipositor, a black body with white markings, and red legs. The insect is perched on a log, tapping it with its antennae to locate prey (likely larvae of beetles or wood wasps)
Intense green blades of ferns unfurl, spotlit by a shaft of sunlight penetrating the shade of a sunken track in early May
Colmer's Hill, with bluebells growing on the flanks, rising above trees in vibrant Spring foliage
The Gothic Arch, early 1770s Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) Royal Academy of Arts
Drake Bay, Costa Rica
Front cover of UK hardback copy of Katabasis, featuring an Escher-like staircase, King's College Chapel, and Archimedes the katabatic cat
Tehran burning Source: Why Smoke From Iran’s Burning Refineries Is More Dangerous Than Urban Smog | WIRED Middle East https://share.google/SW0FSGCJsy3BKJMZi Getty Images
Front cover of UK paperback of Barkskins by Annie Proulx. The top of a very tall pine has been cut and is starting to fall
Male and much larger female solitary bees copulating on the roof of a wooden bee box
Multicoloured butterfly with eye spots on fore- and hind wings perched on lonicera flower
Green and yellow butterfly with leaf-like wings, perched with wings folded on a honeysuckle stem
"Sweet, piercing sweet was the music of Pan's pipe" Illustration of a seated Pan playing his pipes in a natural setting. A woman in a white gown approaches as if drawn by the music. By Walter Crane Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sweet,_piercing_sweet_was_the_music_of_Pan%27s_pipe.jpg
Frontispiece, otter and trout in river with bubbles rising. The first illustrated edition by Charles F. Tunnicliffe was published by Putnam in 1932. Source: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/frontispiece-15
Further, the psychedelic schoolbus that the Merry Pranksters travelled in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Further_(original_bus).jpg#mw-jump-to-license
The monument at Thiepval Credit: Amanda Slater, Coventry (from Wikipedia, accessed 21/02/26) Poem: The Hero, Siegfried Sassoon
Covers of the 2 books mentioned, the Arthur Machen has an Art Nouveau illustration of Pan playing a pipe in the style of Aubrey Beardsley
A two-tailed pasha butterfly perched on a fig tree in a garden in Dubrovnik
Microshelfie featuring 2 novels by Tom Cox (Villager and Everything Will Swallow You), The New Wilderness by Diane Cook, A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter, and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Cover of Del Rey paperback edition of JRR Tolkien's The Lays of Beleriand
Cover of Vintage collected poems of Robert Frost, featuring bare winter trees dusted with snow
Mount Fuji emerging from the clouds
Full text of hope is the thing with feathers
Covers of the 2 books mentioned, on a bedspread
Cover of HG Wells' The Time Machine, with a 3D design of exploding cogs in lurid colours
The winter sun casts long shadows from the twisted birch trees
Cover of first edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968
A plane tree reflected in the still, clear water of the spring at Mottisfont
Cover of UK hardback of David Szalay's Flesh
Beech tree surrounded by its fallen leaves in an urban park