Penny Baggins

Silver Bengal and Spring Blossom.
Rachel Kelly

book of the day

A COUNCIL OF GNOMES. Illustration of gnomes and fairies with woodland creatures gathering for a meeting.

From The Book of Gnomes, E. Stuart Hardy. #FaerieFriday

Join us this #BookologyThursday as we start our St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with the theme:

🍃Irish Literature and Culture🍃

…in literature, art, legends, and lore.

🎨Brian Froud

Kent Ambler
All the Year Round

Tyme spent wyth a catte ys nevir a mistake.

Today, we celebrate the women who carry light into the world.
The ones who lead with wisdom, courage and quiet strength.

Happy International Women’s Day✨

Thaw
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Edward Thomas

Illustration by CF Tunnicliffe from What to Look for in Spring, Ladybird books.

A lane rolls gently down a hill towards a small farmstead in early spring. The first trees are in blossom.

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Spring Landscape’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Total Lunar Eclipse on March 2–3, 2026 – Where and When to See Total lunar eclipse on March 2–3, 2026: Where and when is the Blood Moon visible and what will it look like? Visibility map, animation, and local times.

🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert!

Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!

You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...

On 2 March, T.A. 3019: the Entmoot finishes and the Ents march on Isengard, arriving in the evening.

"To Isengard with doom we come!
With doom we come, with doom we come!"

Image: "The Wrath of the Ents" by Ted Nasmith #Tolkien #LOTR

There is this amazing visual walk-through of this Hobbit tapestry for those interested

artsandculture.google.com/story/AgVhaH...

Painting as described; scene is of a 17th-century style room with an intricately carved wooden ceiling and large, mullioned windows featuring leaded panes and small sections of stained glass. A black cat is seated on a dark wooden table, gazing out the sunlit window. On the table beside the cat are a chessboard with pieces and an open book. A wooden stool with a red cushion is tucked under the table

Sunday plans:
C17th Interior Scene with a Cat seated beside a Window, Frank Moss Bennett, 1923.

I remember this one! 🍲

Painting featuring a black cat behind a row of purple and pink flowers against a white background

Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

Moraine Lake, Banff

Gandalf and Frodo in the Shire

New 'Rings production art is now up at our ebay shop:
ebay.us/m/zVATIu

Lots of bouquets ready for the morrow’s mad dash to buy flowers for #ValentinesDay 💗
Also, I notice the prices go up exponentially… 💐 🤔

😞

Embroidery of a life-like perched small bird facing left, side view on a floral fabric background

The work of contemporary embroidery artist Emily Tull #WomensArt

“Into the Heart of Middle Earth” by Kaitlyn Fascista, a paperback held in from of a fleecy blankie.

Haven’t Tolkien-posted much lately, but my beloved @teawithtolkien.com has a book coming out on the 20th! It’s an earnest exploration of how to bring loving hobbit values into our daily lives, and we NEED more of that

🌟News to share! My publisher, Uppsala Books, has just shared a first announcement of my second book. Please join me on an immersive hobbit walking-party through their history, culture, and homelands later this year. Please, help me share this news. Thank you for all the encouragement!

#Tolkien

‘Barrow’ ~ Raven perched and crawing on standing stone with others in distance, grass, grey sky, painting.

Morning.
🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle

Textile piece with embroidered representations of plants and flowers in a busy composition in pinks and purples predominantly

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt

Painting featuring a view to a house with red tiled roof with a garden of trees in front

French painter Suzanne Valadon, The Sacred Heart from the garden of the Rue Cortot, 1920 #WomensArt