Impressive sheep identification skills! Have they been purposely selected as historically appropriate, do you happen to know?
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Impressive sheep identification skills! Have they been purposely selected as historically appropriate, do you happen to know?
It looks so benign in your photo. Even a bit of blue sky!
Same here! Hard to believe it would never *not* be wet and wild there.
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Adorable #Hedgehog! (An old friend in the BM and very cute.)
An early entry for #SundaySheep, even if we have to look closely. A bonus is that the breed is identified in the comments. 🐑🐑🐑
monochrome book plate, illustration of a Crested Porcupine specimen in side profile, labeled “COMMON PORCUPINE” on left
#MonochromeMonday:
“Common #Porcupine = Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata)
Plate 122 by Charles Heath in George Shaw’s _General zoology, or Systematic natural history_ Vol II Pt 1 (London, 1801)
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#SciArt
Adorable! Great photo.
Happy Birthday, Toby. 🎊 That must have been a wonderful dig to work on: an impressive site.
Very fetching horses! 🥰
I agree!
Delightful reminders of an excellent talk. What wonderful mosaics!
A lovely entry for #SundaySheep.
These fragments have long been hidden away in the British Museum's store. Big thanks to both museums for making them available to be enjoyed. Maybe the remaining fragments can join them one day? 🤞 2/2
Three fragments of Roman mosaic. At top left, a leopard between two trees. At top right, a hound and a boar separated by a tree, with part of a rectangular compartment below; this shows a rosette with three birds to the right. At bottom, a small fragment with a bear.
On #MosaicMonday over the last few weeks, I've been paying tribute to the wonderful animals from the Withington Orpheus mosaic as depicted in Lysons's engravings. It was a great thrill to see the originals again last week, now displayed in the excellent Corinium Museum. 1/2
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
Some useful and encouraging thoughts here for those of us who write. (With thanks to @mappadan.bsky.social for reposting it.)
Ooh ... That's tempting ...
What a cute expression! (And the dog's expression is rather cute too ...😉)
A weathered and pitted stone standing within a fenced enclosure. The stone is slender and higher on the left side where it looks like a pointing finger. The sky is blue and almost cloudless.
For #StandingStoneSunday, the King Stone at Rollright in glorious sunshine a few days ago, just on the opposite side of the road from the stone circle.
Adorable! 🥰
She's really something special, isn't she.
The church leaflet doesn't give an age but online information suggests 300 years old.
Definitely!
Glad you like it.
A wooden door with a pointed top is flanked by two large yew trees. Above the door is a row of small stained glass panels and a lantern.
For #AdoorableThursday, the famous and rather lovely north porch door at St Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold, which might - or might not - have inspired Tolkien.
The life of the mole
BL Royal MS 12 F XIII; 'the Rochester Bestiary'; 13th century; f.44v
Oh, that's so relaxing ... 😁
Give him a gentle cuddle and soothing strokes from me, and I hope he manages to have a restful time soon (and that you and your husband do, too!).
#Hedgehog!
I already know ...!