Frog/witches sprinkling things into a cauldron on lily pads, one frog is standing in the lily pads, another is in flight on a twig-broomstick, one in flight on a water lily leaf, the is a snail watching from the grassy bank, a dragonfly watching from some reeds, there are toadstools on the bank, a gibbous moon and stars in the night sky. Illustration.
Goodnight.
The Pond, Bill Crisafi.
By Bassenthwaite this afternoon - and of course there was a host of golden...💛 #Cumbria #EastCoastKin #nature #photography
Owl. book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Owl. book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
The witch feels the land's waking. Feels the greening of her soul. Her sorceries grow, her sorceries bloom. A thousand new feral songs swim her blood. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Ghost sign Mitchell Lane Glasgow
#ghostsigns #Glasgow
Love a ghost sign. Diverted walk down Mitchell Lane in a subdued Glasgow city centre.
Looked up saw this
Cylindrical clay cylinder, tapered and flat on each end, covered with cuneiform writing. It's a 'toasty' color, yellows and browns, and a bit chipped here and there.
"I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken, with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain." - Nebuchadnezzar II
So says this Babylonian clay cylinder (604-562 BCE), inscribed with cuneiform. 🏺 1/
#MetMuseum 📸 me
"Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old
The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago and kept in a chest ever since"
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Yesterday's walk through the backstreets of #Llandudno offered lots of #photo opportunities. I do love a moody #Noir shot, with lots of long shadows. #photography
The Talking Roman Cow Of The 5th Century BCE
thehistorianshut.com/2019/11/25/t...
#history
"Shall I abandon, O King of mysteries, the soft comforts of home?
Shall I turn my back on my native land, and turn my face towards the sea?"
(St Brendan's prayer)
🎨 Kathleen Neely
#wyrdwednesday
Late Roman Burials Analyzed in Southern England. #Archaeology
archaeology.org/news/2026/03...
Der Foto-Sampler zeigt die Exzellenzuniversitäten Heidelberg, KIT Karlsruhe und Tübingen.
#BadenWürttemberg hat weiter bundesweit die meisten Exzellenzuniversitäten: #Tübingen, #Karlsruhe und #Heidelberg dürfen ihren Titel mindestens bis 2033 tragen. Mehr: mwk-bw.de/4hs7 #exzellenz #wissenschaft #forschung @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @kit.edu @unituebingen.bsky.social
A turtle slowly lifted his head towards the sun while sunbathing. This is a close-up head shot displaying the black and yellow markings right through to his eyes.
The reptiles are back. This one was sunning itself looking slightly offended by my camera lens.
#UKWildlife #Turtle #TurtleTuesday #Reptile #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Nature #Sonyalpha
Collage featuring the upper half of a bird facing left looking right with dark blue and purple shimmering plumage
Bird collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #womensart
Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together
The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart
Embroidery on floral fabric of a small bird with a long tail feather
Contemporary embroidery artist Emily Tull #Womensart
Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
The picture shows a piece of limestone with a drawing of a mouse sitting in front of a table of offerings, smelling the fragrance of a lotus flower which she holds in her hand. Opposite of the table is a cat, holding a fan.
A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.
📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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A photograph of magnolia flowers against a blue sky. This image has been soften creating a soft focus effect.
Today, the magnolia flowers were singing!
#Spring #MagnoliaTree #MagnoliaFlowers #FlowerPhotography #Nature #Photography
Goodnight from Lewis Bramwell, comforted by the thought that if he dies due to tripping on one of the hundreds of books on his staircase at least his ghost will have a lot to read. Goodnight from Gemma Cross, scrabbling to make a chalk circle around her bed. Goodnight from Hookland.
A circular necklace made of alternating dark and light cylindrical beads, with three larger flat, L‑shaped pendants hanging from the lower half, displayed against a black background.
This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2
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Folk faith sorceries often deploy like to thwart like. A system of sympathetic magic to defeat hostilities believed to be walking abroad. The placement of Wicker Queens on agricultural land as field wards is an example of imitative practice and many a farmer will tell you it works. – Dr. M. Benn
Once you realise many tombs are nothing more than dream incubation chambers for the dead, a walk in Ashcourt Necropolis becomes a navigation of visions. No amount of bricked thresholds stops them leaking. Stay still too long and you risk being caught in terminal ephialtes. – #CLNolan
Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass
“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt
Goodnight from Kit Ambler, finding the journey home from his Harrowhound PTSD support group even more difficult than usual. Goodnight from the abandoned armaments factory at Bishopbere, where the temporal shades of Canary Girls remain stained by TNT. Goodnight from Hookland.
A Robin became a frequent visitor to our log cabin in the Forest. Each morning, it would arrive and make self known through song. This is a side profile of the Robin, looking with one eye towards the kitchen window.
Are birds still a thing on #BlueSky? Oh, so they are...!
My contribution to #BirdOfTheDay is the #SideProfiles of the alt theme a #Robin. Two in one
#UKWildlife #Birds #BirdPhotography #Nature #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky
Photo of a ceramic jug with angular handle and with decorative coloured forms and a white bird all on a white surface
Irena Sibrijnsa, Dutch-born, UK-based potter #womensart
Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance
Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Monday
Like many writers I struggle with anything resembling praise, but there is something special about people you really rate saying kind things.
A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
