Matthew Shute 🌳

Soft sunlight, slowly shifting shadows... scenes this serene stipulate sojourns in #SundayYellow 🌳 🤍 💛 🌿

It alights with grace on a temporary base, a bright perching-place in this semi-natural space #NaturePhotography 🌿 🐦 🧡 💚

By these bristles and petals, a green shield bug has settled #FlowersOnFriday ! 💚 🌸 🪲 🤍

I give you this glorious Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus) for #InsectThursday ! 🌿 🦋 🧡 💚

An inner song, rosy reverie, can linger long, sewn in memory... #RoseWednesday 💚 🍃 🌺 🩷

Abundant, so to wound it would be travesty: triumphant totem to the woods, tree majesty! #ThickTrunkTuesday 💚 🩶 🌳 💙

Petals, aglow like scorching flames, settled as snow but torching frames, upon a bed of buoyant green still shone, ran red, for joy had been #SundayYellow 🍃 🌼 ☀️ 💚

These visitors are always welcome! #NaturePhotography 🌱 🦆 💛 💚

May this plethora of purplish petals increase your peace #FlowersOnFriday 🌿 💜 💜 🌿

The Polyommatus (many-eyed) Icarus gets its name from the spots decorating the underside of its gorgeous wings. I was thrilled to meet this one's acquaintance, and to share this shot with you for #InsectThursday ! 💚 🦋 🤍 🧡

It's another winsome wagtail for #WaterWednesday ! 💚 🕊️ 💛 🩶

An awning, aurora-like, adapts arrangement: An apex of arboreal awe, amazement #ThickTrunkTuesday ! 🌿 🌳 🩶 💙

A marvellous mesh & its meticulous maker mark this #MacroMonday ! 💚 🤎 ❤️ 🤍

May your day be meritorious & flowing, very glorious & glowing! #SundayYellow 🤎 🌱 🌼 💛

Let's take a closer look... #NaturePhotography 🌿 🦌 🤍 💚

What may magnify merriment, mirth, and respite? The mere sight of a marvellous marigold might! #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 🌼 🧡 🍃

Behold: broad-but-buoyant bumblebees bounce around bunches of brilliant blooms, brightening our #InsectThursday ! 💜 🪻 🐝 💚

A sprightly singer skips and sips, skirts some slick stones but seldom slips A stream, serene in sunshine, shifts, shimmers steadily, soft but swift #WaterWednesday 🧡 💚 🦤 🩶