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🎼 The Swan - Camille Saint-Saëns (Harp Version).

By Glenda Allaway [youtube]
#Harp #music #classicmusic #zen

"Herbs", 2018.
Oil on Canvas, 35 × 50 cm.
🟡🟠💐👱🏻‍♀️🟡🟠

Liudmyla Doichenko, Ukrainian artist.
@l_doichenko [Pinterest]

Private Collection.
#art #painting #illustration

National Geographic Wallpaper

#foto #natura #animali

🪡 Embroidered book cover with floral decoration, 1632. 12 X 5.5 cm.

An embroidered book cover was an accessory for any book lover in the 17th century.

This cover was made in England in 1632 and originally contained the third part of the bible.

#books #embroidery #cover #art

The stunning Iris Agate: A rainbow captured in stone. 🌈✨

When sliced thin and backlit, this rare gemstone reveals spectacular spectral colors. It’s not pigment, but a structural phenomenon caused by microscopic layers that act as a natural prism.

#gems #Geology #Crystals #rainbow

"Grey-Headed Flying Fox", n.d.
Hand-painted Linocut on handmade Japanese paper, 70.5 x 43 cm

Rachel Newling (Born England, 1956, living in Australia)
rachelnewling.com

Private Collection.
#art #painting #illustration #bats

Because of course I have a Lego Freddie Mercury…

"A Few Seconds Before Happiness,"1955 (some sources also cite 1956). 👦🏼🐶

It is a poignant photograph by the French humanist photographer Édouard Boubat.

While the original photo was taken in black-and-white, it is shared today in various colorized versions.

#art #photography #puppy #happiness

⭐ Last year we announced our official 100 Treasures of Charnwood Forest, featuring famous sites and forgotten artefacts from across the Geopark.

🏺 What's included from your community?

🌐 Explore the Treasures: www.charnwoodforest.org/100treasures/

Courtesy of Swarafulk; https://www.facebook.com/swarafulk/

#OTD 538 AD After a long siege and when all their attempts to enter Rome failed, the Goths decided to retrieve to Ravenna, their Capital city. Unfortunately Belisarius was waiting for them at Milvian Bridge and defeated them.
This was the beginning of the end for the Goth People in Italy.

This picture depicts a woman standing before a Roman general, who sits on a throne. She points toward a man covered in chains, and people around the captive weep.

In a world where female rulers were rare because political power was held by men, Cartimandua was a tactical ruler. This image depicts Cartimandua delivering a captive to a Roman general.

#herstory #womenhistorymonth #internationalwomensday #celticpeople #celtichistory #historical #ironage

Close-up of a deep burgundy pansy (Viola wittrockiana)

“Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.”
Japanese Proverb

Good morning and a wonderful Thursday!

#dailyflowers #flowerreport
#bloomscrolling #gardening
#nature #spring
#ColorADay

A Magnolia tree photographed from below in a shallow valley. The thin wavy branches of the tree seem to reach up towards a blue sky, offering up dozens of pink blooms. A few wispy white clouds can be seen behind the tree. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

The same Magnolia tree seen from above on a bank overlooking a fabulous view of the Weald of Kent in South-East England, an ancient area of land that was once densely forested but is now mainly fields. A small reservoir can be seen on the left. A bank of cloud rests above the horizon. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Today’s theme for #PalacesAndGardens is #AboveAndBelow and I dropped down on a steep path at Emmetts Gardens
@nationaltrust.org.uk
to photograph this sensational Magnolia from below before climbing back to get a second shot from above.
#Bloomscrolling
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin

A small single lily growing out of a mass of dead red brown bracken leaves. The flower is a light purple-pink and star-shaped with 6 petals, long white stamens growing out of the centre with purple dusty tips. It has 2 large blades leaves like a tulip - dark muddy green with light green blotches.

🌷 Dog's Tooth Violet Erythronium dens-canis (actually a lily)

The woods were dotted with these beautiful pink flowers, poking through the mats of dead bracken.

I've seen the odd one or two in previous years, but never so many!

#bloomscrolling #wildflowers […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

A small square painting of pink blossom trees. Green grass, blue sky.

Today’s #Painting: Pink blossom #Art #Nature

“with you, intimacy colours my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.” Warsan Shire glass vase with poppies shades of pinks & cream in various stages of unfurling

Photo looking down on a small square silver box with round enamel detail of a bird on top

Enamel silver box,c.1914 by Elizabeth Copeland, a pioneering force in the American Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Textile artwork featuring an image of a landscape with fields of purple flowers under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds

Monika Kinner-Whalen, contemporary Canadian textile artist known for her thread paintings #WomensArt

A stunningly violet violet

Day 1350 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and I shared white ones the other day, but how about this, for a stunner of a violet for today then?
In memory of a much loved Aunt who passed away today 💔 😥 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

The fundraising page for the Leicestershire torc showing the £10,000 target has been reached!

Wooohooo!!!

260 of you, in fivers, tenners and more have raised £10,000!! Well done everyone! 👏

I'm sure there will be stretch funding, but this is brilliant news, it really is.

#Archaeology p🏺

If you see this, post a robot.

😍🐶

Black Labrador puppy asleep on the sofa

“I’m tired now!”

Yeah, me too, baby.
#BlackShuck

Playmobil Roman looking beaten up in a wood, with Asterix behind him. He ain’t no billionaire’s son.

It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me,
I ain’t no fortunate one.
#PlaymobilInfestation

After the Dacian Wars in 109 AD the Trophy of Trajan (Tropaeum Traiani) was built next to the altar to commemorate the Roman Empire's victories over the Dacians. It gave its name to the later Roman fort probably built around 106, 1.4 km to the southwest.

The Battle of Adamclisi was a major clash fought nearby during Trajan's Dacian Wars in the winter of 101 to 102 between the Roman Empire and the Dacians resulting in a decisive Roman victory, though both sides suffered very heavy casualties. A monumental altar was built nearby in 102 to commemorate the victory.

The city was destroyed by the Goths, but it was rebuilt during Constantine the Great's rule with improved defensive walls. Civitas Tropaensium survived until the Avars sacked it in 587 when the Avar Hagan, although he had concluded a peace with the Empire from which he received the sum of 100,000 gold coins in exchange for the obligation to refrain from attacks, violated the imperial territory and conquered Tropaeum Traiani "through a military action which gave him a lot of work, because the cities did not surrender easily". It then ceased to be an important city of Dobruja and was no longer mentioned for seven hundred years.

#RomanFortThursday

Civitas Tropaensium was a Roman city situated in the #Roman province of Moesia. The city developed around the fort, colonised with Roman veterans of the Dacian Wars, and became a municipium. (See Alt.)
#Archaeology #History

The remains of Bothwellhaugh Roman Bathhouse at Strathclyde Country Park in North Lanarkshire. The bathhouse served the nearby Roman fort and was in use from around 142 to 162 AD when the northern frontier was based on the Antonine Wall. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday

A Squirrel on a branch eating a red berry. There are branches and red berries in the fore and backgrounds.

oh hi!

Illustration of hare in black waistcoat sat on stool next to a side table with white floral vase with spray of red leaves in front of window with beige drapes, sun, rabbit is holding a balalaika.

Hello Thursday.
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

After awakening naked in a hobbit-hole and covered in tattoos, the king swore that the previous night would definitely his last ‘big night out’…for real this time… - 14th century, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 213v

After negotiations between the two sides broke down, things suddenly became very tents - 14th century, Bodeian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 83v