Wim 🅾 @wim_v12e@octodon.social
Functional programmer, Perl hacker, compiler writer, FPGA researcher, Reader at Glasgow Univ.
I mainly post pictures and occasionally drawings
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I've a proposition to paint a portrait for a feminist exhibition. I'm very excited about it, I've never really exhibited my stuff.
And now I realize that I never dared to call myself an artist, never considered or called my "drawings", "paintings", "stuff" art. I'm a bit angry at myself now, because who is the judge here? Who is holding me back?
Just me and my fear, and I'm SO over it!
I've just lost patience with my fear.
Himegi Castle
Shinkansen
Current status of Plume and Pleroma federation https://baptiste.gelez.xyz/~/KaniiniTestBlog/current-status-of-plume-and-pleroma-federation/
Maybe they are "dark green fritillary", I can't really tell the difference.
The flowers on which the butterflies were sitting in my previous post. It's called cat's ear.
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There are not all that many varieties of butterflies in the Scottish Highlands. I think this one is called "pearl-bordered fritillary".
You can see that the left one has some damage on its wings. Life as a butterfly has its dangers.
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Standing by Myself
OK, time for something a bit more obvious: Scottish heather.
I love the Wikipedia quote:
"Heather is seen as iconic of Scotland, where the plant grows widely. When poems like Bonnie Auld Scotland speak of "fragrant hills of purple heather', when the hero of Kidnapped flees through the heather, when heather and Scotland are linked in the same sentence, the heather talked about is Calluna vulgaris."
Fun fact about Lady's Mantle: the official name is Alchemilla, from a medieval Latin diminutive of alchimia ‘alchemy’, from the belief that dew from the leaves of the plant could turn base metals into gold.
(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Alchemilla)
The Scots pine is definitely one of my favourite trees. Rothiemurchus forest is one of the few sites where they still grow as a forest. What is really cool is that these trees here are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice age, 9,000 years ago.
I think they're magnificent trees.
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Wild thyme and Alpine lady's-mantle.
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Even unripe cherries can make a nice subject for a picture. You can imagine the blossoms from a few months ago.
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This is sundew (drosera), a little carnivorous plant. In this time of the year it was quite abundant in Glen Einich, although I had not noticed it before.
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This is a wild rose, and because it 's summer in Scotland there are raindrops on it.
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