San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

Conch egg case found along the shore yesterday morning.

Lily Seika Jones (Texan/Canadian, born 1989)
"The Moirai", 2018
Watercolor, Ink, Pencil and Gouache on Paper,
8" × 12".
Private Collection.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Two starlings on a snow covered branch.

A small grump of Starlings. ✨

Sunday night is shaping up for a widespread damaging wind event from Arkansas into Indiana. Enhanced Risk already in place three days out. A powerful squall line with 70+ mph wind gusts and embedded tornadoes is expected to sweep through overnight while people are sleeping.

"Premonition" by Remedios Varo explores the mystical interplay between mechanical elements and ethereal figures draped in flowing garments, set against a surreal, otherworldly landscape. The scene evokes themes of destiny and the uncanny, characteristic of Varo's imaginative and allegorical style.

Premonition
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19237

Josef Gassler (Austrian, 1893-1978)
“Liebespaar” c.1923

(between images of a map showing the nearly 3,000 No Kings Day events planned for March 28) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.

We’re rapidly approaching 3,000 No Kings Day events, which means March 28 is going to be the biggest protest in US history. Let’s make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

"Cat on a Radiator", 2017

Maria Chepeleva, Мария Чепелева (Ukraine artist born 1985).
@chepelevamariia [IG]

#art #painting #illustration #cats #caturday

Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt

Maria Chepeleva (Ukraine) - "Still-Life With Sage and Anfiska" 2023

No president or defense secretary in modern memory has been less qualified, less knowledgeable, or more emotionally unfit to wage war than Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth.

This intriguing self-portrait by Frida Kahlo features her characteristic gaze and traditional attire, subtly invoking her Mexican heritage. The work's playful inscriptions challenge conventional beauty standards, reflecting Kahlo’s complex relationship with self-image and identity.

Self- Portrait Very Ugly, 1933
https://botfrens.com/collections/127/contents/30612

René Magritte,
La Belle de Nuit, 1940

#books #reading #quiet
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Blundering Forward, Trump Style Trump’s big policy mistakes follow a familiar pattern, and we should expect the same with the war in Iran.

Many of the biggest policy decisions of Donald Trump’s second term follow the same script: move fast, ignore the experts, break things, then spin the disastrous outcome as a victory. From DOGE to tariffs to the ICE surge in Minneapolis, the pattern keeps repeating. The war in Iran is next.

“In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.”

~ Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Leonora Carrington, The Lovers, 1987

Civil Rights Coalition to Dems: Don't Give Stephen Miller What He Wants “Supporting Stephen Miller’s warrantless surveillance agenda would be a massive detriment to the privacy and civil rights and liberties of people in the United States."

“Supporting Stephen Miller’s warrantless surveillance agenda would be a massive detriment to the privacy and civil rights and liberties of people in the United States," say 90+ groups.

Pencil drawing of a mouse with proudly displaying a fancy boot. (on their mouse foot)

Another Mouse-witch for you this morning because witches and also, mice.

The Irish word for fairy is sheehogue [sidheogl, a diminutive of 'shee' in banshee. Fairies are deenee shee [daoine sidhe] (fairy people)

~W.B. Yeats
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw (1879)
#BookologyThursday

🆘 Please share re post and pledge if you are able to help sweet senior girl Miracle get to safety. 🆘
▶️She needs med attention ASAP.◀️

Avenue in Voyer d'Argenson Park at Asnieres - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14055

🐾🐯😻🌺 #cat #cats #catsofbluesky #catsky #catlover

Fake war videos are degrading our trust in reality AI-generated content is unavoidable now. That's a problem.

Staying informed has never been more important, but in this moment, that means being particularly careful about what you accept as real—even if you think you see it with your own eyes.

Totally stupid.

Vulgar and not funny.

Please read and share. The “grassroots” support for the SAVE America Act is a lie. The campaign pushing this bill is being run by Cleta Mitchell and Scott Presler, two of the most notorious election deniers in the country.

Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus).
Silent presence in the forest. 🦉

#owl #birdphotography #birdlovers #photography
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