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Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Antonia Canis, Cornelis de Vos.
Book Cover of the Day:
Magnarum Medicinae partium herbariae et zoographiae imagines, Georg Öllinger, 1553.
Boddington’s Seeds
Hare, Chambéry, BM, MS 4, C15th.
Thrush, Catharine Hyde.
Morning. Robin, Rev. F. O. Morris, 1862.
Ah thank you!
Night! 🌙 🐖
I think this is clearer…I think it’s a ball of yarn and some needles. I’m not sure why I posted that image of the painting when there’s this much clearer one.
Goodnight. 🖼️ Arnold Lobel
Oh that’s very true!
Ah ok.
That’s very lovely!
Are they??
Morning! 💚🫖🐸
Book Cover of the Day:
Pinch Punch 🐇 🖼 White Rabbit, Jan Mankes, 1909.
September, 1899.
Happy September! 🖼️ Grasset
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Morning. 🖼️ Fedor Petrovich Tolstoi
It is! I hadn’t thought about that!
He matches the chair.
Ah thank you, Marcelle! x
This is a fabulous collection, highly recommend! @racheldeering.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Morning! 💚🫖🐸
Me too!
Book Cover of the Day:
Girl and Cat, Alfredo Müller.
New Holland Parrakeet, Edward Lear.
Morning!
Morning. Bluebeard and Gloriana, Peacocks on the terrace at Rode Hall, Cheshire, Walter Crane.
Just a reminder that you can buy my latest collection here: amzn.eu/d/5btDV8t Do share.
Goodnight. 🖼️ Petr Zabolotskiy
‘Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.’ ~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine. #BookWormSat
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Strayed across this. Didn’t realise there was a summer special. What a treat! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#BookWormSat
‘Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.’ ~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.
Yes, an old favourite.
‘The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.’ ~ John Wyndham, The Chrysalids. #BookWormSat
‘I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it.’ ~ Mary Shelley, The Last Man And @racheldeering.bsky.social for here for an end of the world as we know it #BookWormSat 🖼️ Zdzislaw Beksinski
'Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave 'life,' that we may live.' -Mary Shelley 🎨Thomas Cole
🖼️ Kagayama Hakuhō #Caturday
Bonus Book Cover of the Day: #Caturday
Well, you could Google the artwork to see if you could find it.
Tom Tit, John Henry Dearle.
How do you mean?
🖼️ Damwild, Fallow Deer, August Schleich.
Book Cover of the Day:
Summer Flowers, Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa.
Ha ha ha
Saturday plans: 🖼️ Hector Thomas Maybank
Saint Keneth of The Gulls, from The Book Of Saints and Friendly Beasts, Abbie Farwell Brown, illustr. Fanny Y Cory.
Morning. Blue Crane or Heron, John James Audubon, 1827–38.
Goodnight. 🖼️ Gennady Spirin
My second collection available for sale here: amzn.eu/d/i5wEL21
In the north of England, we have the Gabble Ratchets (or Gabriel Hounds) an airborne pack of spectral dogs. Sometimes human-headed, always a source of terror, to hear their yelping as they pass over your house presages disaster. #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday 🎨 Katie Marland www.katiemarland.com
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors. ~ Longfellow #PhantomsFriday Jacques-Henri Lartigue “Mon frère Zissou en fantome”, 1905
According to a Flemish folktale, a derelict house was haunted by a murderer in the shape of a dog. The dog's eyes glowed like lanterns, and the animal jumped on people’s backs, forcing them to carry the spectre to the place where the murder had been committed. #FolkyFriday #PhantomsFriday
A brilliant poem from queen beatle today: Plenty of fish: www.abctales.com/story/queen-...
Summer night, Inger on the beach, Edvard Munch, 1889.
‘I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.’ ~ Mary Shelley, The Last Man. Tomorrow, #BookWormSat celebrates Mary Shelley’s birthday and The Last Man with the literature of dystopias. Join us!
Cool Evening, Bato Dugarzhapov.
Just posted a new article. :-) signe.substack.com
Here’s Gunnhild, the Mother of Kings, and all-around witchy lady. This is her, captured in the days of her unbridled youth when she shacked up with a couple of Sámi wizards out in the wilds of Norway. @barbarianlord.bsky.social & @sagathingpodcast.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/row...
According to a Flemish folktale, the devil agreed to build a church in exchange for a man's soul. When the church was finished, the man refused to give his soul because there was no cross on the spire. All hell broke loose. The town was flooded with devils who destroyed the building.
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I would love an invite to any kind of witch gathering, but this one especially. 🖤 Art by Bill Crisafi.
The Pigeon by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1871)
I'm only in it for the money, you know ... tinyurl.com/EwansBooks
A poem of mine 👇
Oh well, I’m very happy with that, thank you!
Day 25 of @sealeychallenge.bsky.social @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In The Shadow of Gods’ #poetry #writing #poetic #poet #writers #readers #books
Night night 💙
Goodnight. Owl Evening, Jutta Votteler.
Ah lovely, thank you.
Indeed.
Ha ha, am very pleased he’s managed to bend your rules. And yes, he’s a very handsome bear.
Ah, ok, thanks.
Morning. Nearly. 💚🫖🐸
That is true.
Don’t know where this is from, but it’s lovely.
Ah good! Ty.
🖼️ Ogata Korin
Book Cover of the Day:
Thank you!
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Oh good!
Ok, thank you!
‘the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.’ ~ Charles Bukowski. 🖼️ Vincent Van Gogh, 1889.
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Red Squirrel, Winifred Austen.
Hakkespett, Woodpecker, Theodor Kittelsen, 1912.
Morning. 🖼️ Cormorant, Ohara Koson.
This wise and beautiful poem from lenchenelf is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can www.abctales.com/story/lenche...
Beginning naturalistically sweet and hopeful, this tale goes on to reveal itself as something much darker. Enjoy! www.abctales.com/story/rosslo...
He is, wild and beautiful. I love Siamese cats too. Also chatty and noisy as bengals are.