Nuna Toodles

Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848) - A story of a group of crows attacked by a farmer, beautifully illustrated by the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/caw-caw-or-the-chronicle-of-crows-ca-1848

Photo of a tuft of Shagnum moss that’s off white to light and medium green in colour. The branches of the moss plants look feathery, radiating out from the centre.

Sphagnum moss. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #plants
Photo covers about 6cm, left to right.

Cover of Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman. Illustration of an upright skeleton wearing plate armor and a helmet with a chain mail gorget. Its hands are pressed together in front of its chest, as though in prayer. A sheathed sword hangs from its left hip. A sheathed dagger is at its right hip. The skeleton appears in black against a bright red background. The title text appears in white calligraphic lettering in the foreground.

Book thirty-two:

Between Two.Fires, by Christopher Buehlman, audio performed by Steve West

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Painting, nest of three blue eggs and one golden egg, surrounded by red berries.

🖼️ Catherine Hyde

Absolutely magical to see a magnificent Whooping Crane soar directly overhead at sunset. That's a seven-foot wingspan you're looking at! 🤍🖤🤍 #Cranes #Texas #BirdsSeenin2026

Nebulous blue gas surrounded by red gas against a sea of stars. Looks a bit like a galactic flower.

The ancient remains of Abell 31, a planetary nebula that is dissolving back into the Milky Way as its central star nears the white dwarf stage.

Image credit: 15 hrs on my tiny telescope

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

Anna’s hummingbird in sakura flowers

Anna’s Hummingbird on sakura at dusk

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Side view of a fuzzy pasque flower.

Pasque flower

#Bloomscrolling #TextureTuesday #Macro #Reeflex #MobilePhotography

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たんぽぽ(2022.5)

HAVE MET A VERY TALKATIVE SHEEP CALLED MURIEL. SPENDING MUCH OF MY TIME IN DEEP DISCUSSION ON MATTERS OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY.

a sketchbook with colour swatches and stars on the left page, and a landscape on the right. you can see a cabin, flowers in the foreground and mountains in the background.

easing back into sketchbooking 🐥 this landscape is inspired by a view on the way up one of my favorite mountains. i can’t wait to get there again!!

#sketchbookartist #gouachepainting

Photo of a cream coloured lichen growing flat on dark coloured rock. The lichen is roughly square in shape and is covered in several dozen bright orange discs (the apothecia) of varying sizes. The discs are reproductive, spore-producing structures.

Orange Rocky Posy Lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends Lichen is about 3cm wide/high.

"can I come in?" says the vampire. "I don't know, CAN you?" says the woman. Text at bottom of meme: Cursing quietly, the vampire backed away, foiled yet again by the English Teacher's pedantry.

Photographed from directly below in a worm’s-eye perspective, this double snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) reveals its hidden interior in full: three broad, luminous white outer tepals spread outward like wings, their silky surfaces catching the bright late-winter light. At the center sits a densely layered rosette of frilled inner segments in deep emerald and pale green, a compact, rose-like formation ordinarily concealed from view, creating a striking contrast against the pure white of the outer petals. The green stem curves gracefully to one side, while a web of bare, leafless winter branches fans softly out of focus around the bloom, their warm brown tones framed against a clear, deep blue sky. The image captures a quiet moment: a single flower of intricate botanical detail, suspended mid-air against the sparse, skeletal beauty of the season turning toward spring.

Hello everyone, won’t be here today, need a little break. Have a wonderful Monday and good week ahead.
#BlueSkyMonday #flowers #bloomscrolling #photography
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

ハルイロ、カラフル。

Photo shows a sketchbook sitting open on a wooden desk easel. The sketchbook shows a painting created with gouache paint, an opaque watercolor medium. The painting depicts a nature scene of a pathway between large redwood trees on a sunny day with bright light shining through green leaves.

Color experiments with gouache! 🌿✨ Testing out a new palette with this study. Painted from a beautiful photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash

I hate when the leader of an exercise class says "one more" when they really mean "more than one more."

Close up of a Bohemian Waxwing eating red berries. There is snow on the berries and blue sky in the background. The bird is taupe with peach above the beak and on the cheek. There is a black band over the eyes.

Bohemian Waxwing #birds

A traditional illustration of two foxes done with brush tip acrylic paint pens.

a seasonal duo 🦊💙

The speckles!

I typically spot Winter Wrens bopping around near the ground, but occasionally one pops up to scoot along branches.

Photo of four lichens growing flat on grey rock. A yellow lichen is growing in a diagonal line across the photo. A dark grey oval lichen is growing along the yellow line as is a larger, round, off white lichen. A small amount of brown lichen is at the right side end of the line of yellow lichen.

Crustose lichen mix: Candelariella (yellow), Rhizocarpon (dark grey) Dimelaena (off white) and Acarospora (brown). Photo covers about 6cm, left to right. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Motifs also appearing in other recent reads: wanting to be of use leads to trouble, the friends we make along the way, surprise! you're gay

Cover of The Raven and the Reindeer, by T. Kingfisher. A black knotted braid encircles an aquarium field. In the center of the circle, black bird, presumably a raven, perches between the dark antlers of a white reindeer skull.

Book thirty-one:

The Raven and the Reindeer, by T. Kingfisher, audio performed by Nina Yndis

(A favorite audio performance for the year.)

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his name is Benson Hedges and he sounds like he smokes 5 packs of them a day

50 awful drawings of my wretched cat

Illustration of a sea lion with shrimp-like features.

shrimp sea lion. shlion #art

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A repeating pattern featuring manzanita leaves, white berries and a reddish brown color scheme

Manzanita: a "false half-drop" repeating pattern that I may use for wrapping paper.

I'm on a wrapping paper quest! I want at least one design I love done by July, when holiday buying season for retailers starts.

#patterndesign #repeatingpattern #wrappingpaper

Cat #047

Woman and owl sitting side by side on a crescent moon, appearing to have a conversation.

'The Witch’s Daughter'
by Frederick Stuart Church
Engraving by J. P. Davys (1881)

#OwlishMonday