Dear journalists,
I know there's a lot going on right now. But I think it's very important that you investigate which DOGE bro stole the social security data from the government.
And ideally, figure it out before the midterms. Because it would be good to know what they were doing in Nov 2024.
Yesterday a snow bank. Today, this. A welcome sight in central Connecticut. In the 70s near 80 today. So we will call it winsprummer.
Oh ffs. Witkoff apparently went on TV today and said that Russia told him they're not helping Iran and we can trust the Russians and take them at their word.
We have idiots in charge.
Sunlight through leafless trees with snowdrops at their base.
Don't miss the chance to see the five-acre winter garden at Campden House, Chipping Campden. Drifts of snowdrops and woodland walks.
Open on Sun Feb 8, 10-3pm. Entry is £10 adults, £5 children. Note this is a pop up so not in the handbook. Details: buff.ly/tuPcYFT
#cotswolds #opengarden #NGS
dreaming in artist Annie Stegg Gerard’s world
Illustration of a winged fairy wearing a blue and white dress, with daisies in her hair. She is kneeling on the grass, tending to some daffodils.
'Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills.'
~L. M. Montgomery
🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Looking for a garden outing this month? Don't forget, we have several gardens that open by arrangement in March..
Kemble House, near Cirencester.
Radnors, Lydbrook.
Trench Hill, Sheepscombe.
Details: buff.ly/TEwfvzy
#opengardens #nationalgardenscheme
TAPPER: Do you think Stephen Miller should go?
TILLIS: Of course I do. He's a big problem in this administration and has been since the beginning
The Middle East is on fire. Gas prices are soaring. Jobs are disappearing. Senile Satan is golfing again.
l.smartnews.com/p-7iPas2qY/X... “The Girls?” Both women are in their 40s.
What is JD Vance smelling?
This year’s Death Valley flower bloom is the greatest since 2016, according to the U.S. National Park Service. See it for yourself
A small grey pillar stone stands proudly from the leaf strewn ground of Inchagoill Island. It has a depiction of two crosses on the visible face, and the inscription LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH in Insular half uncial script
The Luguaedon Stone • Inchagoill Island
This small stone pillar stands close to the early church of Teampall Phadraig.
It bears one of the earliest inscriptions of Irish in the Latin alphabet. It reads:
LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH
THE STONE OF LUGUAEDON, SON OF MENUEH
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm 🏺
Boccaccio Boccaccino - Gypsy Girl 1504-5 (Uffizi Gallery)
View across pond towards house with leafless trees and bright willow stems.
Snowdrops and views are on offer when Trench Hill opens on Sunday February 8.
This three-acre hillside garden at Sheepscombe has hellebores, snowdrops and woodland walks.
Open 11-4pm. Entry £5. Homemade teas. Details: buff.ly/SzQumdF
#cotswolds #OpenGarden #NationalGardenScheme
Johannes Vermeer - The Astronomer 1668 (Louvre)
"at 4 a.m."🙄
Still, it's great that it's finally up, and a disgrace that it took this long.
A Sunlit Winter Landscape (1919) by Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted
Edward Hopper - "Cobbs Barns and Distant Houses" (1930)
'Sargent & Kussner: Portraitists of the Gilded Age Elite' Webinar
Led by Kathleen Langone / @phihpod.bsky.social
Hosted by the New York Adventure Club
www.nyadventureclub.com/event/197931...
Young Girls at the Window, 1892 #impressionism #morisot
Rod Stewart calls out “draft dodger” Trump for denigrating the service of allied combat vets, and says that PM Keir Starmer must insist that Trump publicly apologize.
Painting as described, snowy landscape scattered with wintered trees and pines over rolling hills, full moon, cloudy night sky.
Goodnight.
Winter Scene in Moonlight, Henry Farrer, 1869.
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Flower oil painting on board with some fruit on a round metal table
Here's a fairly large and riotous flower oil painting on board that found a buyer. I think I only posted a photo of this in progress a month or so ago but not the finished painting. I won't attempt to name all the flowers but they're from my garden.
#oilpainting #flowers #botanical
