@randalljamesp
writer, editor - wild & visual stories mostly, for adults & children, incl. illustrated folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins. PhD, Goldsmiths (literature, 2018).
Closeup of a magenta hellebore flower in bloom, with the flower in profile pointing toward the left side of the photo, stem extending down and to the right. The sun gives the flower a lovely glow. Green blurry background.
Photos from today's walk (thread): Hellebore.
#photography #FlowerReport #PNW #bloomscrolling #garden #flowers
Animaris Rex: an 18-metre walking 'beach beast' powered only by wind, created by Theo Jansen
Scientific Shot of a Peacock mantis shrimp eyes which are the most advanced in the animal world. Photo by Daniel Sasse.
the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.
humans have 3.
we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.
the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.
#addOcean
Ancient Greek theatrical masks.
Ancient Greek theatrical masks.
“Je ne suis pas sûr que les récits des hommes soient plus volontaires que leurs rêves… Les romans sont aux jours ce que les rêves sont aux nuits.”
“Novels are to the day what dreams are to the night.”
(Pascal Quignard, Albucius)
Evocation of Butterflies, 1911. Odilon Redon. Oil on canvas.
Golden rutile with dark green and colorless clinochlore on quartz.. The location given is how Mindat lists it. This is not from the main quartz collecting area but from a small roadcut some distance up the road from the quartz area. These must be etched out of calcite filling the cavities in the rock. Collected by me 8 July 1989.
Rutile TiO₂
Hansen Creek Crystal Area, Hansen Creek, Snoqualmie Mining District, King Co., Washington, USA
FOV = 1.45 mm
#1593
NFS
#minerals #mineralogy #geology #earthsciencedouglasmerson197@gmail.com
Tractorsaurus fossil, age unknown
Moss shoots, early morning. #closeup
The graphic design work of Tom Eckersley (1914-1997). Images via Pinterest.
Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage Chrysosplenium alternifolium in West Berkshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Common Green Magpie.
The common green magpie (Cissa chinensis)
A neon-colored, noisy, highly social bird of lowland and mid-altitude subtropical forests. Surprisingly difficult to spot as it glides from tree to tree in the middle and upper levels of the forest.
📸: @monakar.vishal
nice story!
LinkedIn says he’s still at South Dartmoor (my brother a former colleague, met just a few brief times…). Real people behind these ghosts! ;)
Such are evenings spent about the fire, such are our dreams.’
He said: ‘I’m not sure humankind itself chooses the stories that it tells any more than its dreams. Novels (declamations) should be as imperious as that, being to daytime what dreams are to night. (2/3)
These pictographs in Horseshoe Canyon tell a story that no one alive today can decipher. Seems much of human history is a mystery. #HorseshoeCanyon #Canyonlands #pictographs #RockArt #landscapes #photography
Pascal Quignard:
“Albucius said: ‘Humankind is the bees. They spit up their lives in the form of stories, so they won’t remain stunned into silence… With each nightly return, they restore, amass, share, and consume the nectar they’ve gathered and the tales of their quest. (1/3)
A section of a broken branch that kind of looks like an upright walking horse…sort of.
When I used to walk my son to & from school, we used to play various games to diminish the tedium & repetition. One was finding ‘good’ sticks, we had quite the collection😂
My son, now 26 still occasionally brings them me. Last week he brought in this ‘proud horse homunculus’!
☺️
Soft pink almond blossom opening along a slender branch against a pale blue sky, with several rosy buds still closed. The delicate flowers show pale petals and golden stamens, with a painterly background.
“The almond breaks to pink against the skies;
Then do we start, and with new-opened eyes
See the true Spring begin.”
—from ‘The Garden’ by Vita Sackville-West, gardener and writer of Sissinghurst, born #OTD 9 March 1892. Have you visited the beautiful gardens of Sissinghurst?
#art #spraycanart #barcelona #artists #photography
In Flight
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #nikon
If you want to follow a trail.. an Allan Sutton taught English & Drama at Ashburton / South Dartmoor School after that period. Fits character
lushly lichenous / Mill End river walk
finding spring’s spirit gifts
looking up
river micro-beach
lushly lichenous / Mill End river walk
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #photogenic, birds you find to be photogenic.
I don’t know about you, but I think this little Rufous-tailed Jacamar was certainly making a strong case for inclusion.
#birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin #nikon
