"I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive-nor will we deserve to."
A Western Jackdaw (Coloeus monedula) perched atop a wooden post.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #posted - a bird on a post or fence, so here's a jackdaw.
#birds #photography
Lotta fat old guys telling Olympic athletes that they should be sent home. No one is stopping you from getting off your couches and training to take their spots. Until then, enjoy watching them exercise their free speech rights. Go team USA.
Good morning.
Raven, yesterday.
A Steller's jay that I saw this weekend at Salt Point State Park, California, USA.
#birds
Just learned the Irish word "aonarán" which is someone who is totally content with their own company--not lonely, not sad--just someone who just enjoys solitude; and yes
The sky has been UNREAL the last three evenings.
We’re thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Jeff Vandermeer and 4th Estate Books, our Evernight Exclusive set of the Southern Reach series!
Official link to these new Southern Reach editions share.google/wvp4iCVx0q5a...
one of the best #sqrlpix I've seen lately!
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
Vermont in the fall.
📸Ken Rachlis
Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Annabel Lee". Two lovers embrace at the edge of the sea, water splashes around them and the surrounding rocks. A full moon shines over them, and storm clouds loom. Published in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" 2024 Macmillan
illustration by Abigail Larson of a raven perched on a skull with a teal curtain backdrop
illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a scene from Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man restrained as a pendulum blade swings close to him. Rats have swarmed around him, chewing the ropes that hold him down. This illustration is featured in "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection" for Macmillan Books.
Illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Sticker Jigsaw" book. The illustration is a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven". The narrator is at the center of the image looking up at at raven perched above an open doorway. Behind the narrator is a tall window with red curtains, and the ghost of Lenore lurks nearby. A black cat is watching the scene from the lower right corner.
In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 176th deathday, here are a few of my recent pieces inspired by Poe's works 🫀
I’M READY
A promotional #LOTR drawing by Mike Ploog (1978)
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
Text from Publishers Marketplace, above: Area X by Jeff VanderMeer Imprint: Abrams. Jeff VanderMeer's Area X: The Southern Reach Files, an expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents, purporting to be the last report of a Central agent; a full-color book spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, pitched for Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sands at Abrams in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world). Text submitted to Publishers Marketplace: An epic and mind-blowing expansion of the Area X story by way of a hidden metal box full of secret images and documents purporting to be the last report of the Central agent Karen Hargraves. Spanning the 30 years of Southern Reach expeditions, reaching into the past and the future, this full-color book will satisfy Area X completists while adding to the narrative begun with the first four novels, to Michael Sand at Abrams, in an exclusive submission, by Joseph Veltre at Gersh Agency and attorney Alex Kohner (world).
Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/?
More dusk photos on the lake.
Dusk from the other side of the lake.
Lollipop Lake and trees against a backdrop of a blue and creamsicle skyline.
My favorite lighting. Dusk alighting the bottom of trees. No editing on this one.
Orange dusklight illuminates the sidewalk path framed by trees. No editing.
Rainbow in stormy clouds.
From 7.10.25 during a dusky walk post-rain.
A snowy egret chills adjacent black cormorants and mallards on a little island in the lake.
Black cormorant suns his wings after taking a dip.
No birbs. Just sunflowers against Lollipop Lake on a bright afternoon.
Great blue heron strides on the shore. Mallards swim.
Birbs.
“In Quaking Gold,” oil on linen, 12”x10” is my latest —and final— painting for my show at Coeur d’Alene Galleries opening this Friday, July 11th! Reception from 5-8pm.
#ravens #aspens #wildlifeart #birdart #animalart #westernart #oilpainting
Setting sun reflecting off a pond. Silhouette of geese.
More setting sun and the pond, wth less reflection.
A line of Canadian geese swimming to the edge of the pond.
Mama duck and baby swimming in a pond.
No idea what sort of clouds these are but they're cool.
Canadian geese, cormorant, and ducks (mallards and mottleds). The geese swim and the others chill on a little island in the pond.
Close up of cormorant and ducks on the island.
From today's hour long evening walk (a brief rain cooled the temps enough that I could stand to be outdoors for a while.)
Mallards in a pond, gathered in the shade of a weeping willow.
Mallards under the weeping willow.
Pelicans fishing in the pond, enjoying the sun.
Today's walk.
Buzzing power lines. 😦
Mama mallard and her teens dunking for food. 🥹 (Sorry for the camera dipping. A bug kept running on my leg.)
Bubbling Cherry Creek intersected by a pedestrian bridge.
Weeping willow by a pond.
White flowers, some with purple as if they've had a paintbrush run across them.
Squirrel at attention, fishing rod leaning against tree trunk to his left. He's gonna go fishing, clearly.
Cool tree, half alive with dead branches like fingers reaching into the sky.
Pond fringed by green grass and trees, top of building in distance.
Double-crested cormorants and mallards chilling on a little island in a grey pond.
Red-winged Blackbird chilling on some wire keeping a baby tree upright.
On today's walk.
Blue Jay blessed me; a male swooped in front of me. A blur of blue feathers.
Some type of daisy? Small, white petals, yellow center, green leaves.
Close up of same daisy type flowers.
Pink roses
More pink roses, some with aging edges.
Flowers in the backyard. 😊
