Mappa Mundi in the margin BnF MS Latin 4798; Strabo, Geographica (Guarinus Veronensis interpres); 14th century (towards 1470); Florence; f.3v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Don’t use your knees. If you can help it, just don’t.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards

Gustave Dore's drawing (1882) was made for Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem, 'The Raven.' It depicts the narrator opening his chamber door to a mysterious tapping, as described in the poem: 'I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.'

Live Skull Big Black Sun Ra Run DMC The Replacements Kraftwerk Schoolly D The Cramps The Smiths Pylon

Cades Cove Pentax Auto 110 Lomo orca 100 #FilmPhotography

Wowza.

The weather is warming up & there's every hope that the mothing will find another level as the temperatures rise across the weekend. One gorgeous NFY macro in the actinic this morning, a pristine Clouded Silver. What a gorgeous moth. @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths #teammoth

Watching the Bumblebees on the Geraniums this evening for #WorldBeeDay.

I oversold my sewing abilities because I just really wanted to get out of a store so tonight I have to take in a satin dress and am afraid it may go from medieval chanteuse costume to Molly Ringwald's disappointing prom dress.

George Spencer-Watson's 1909 portrait is of his wife Hilda, a well-known dancer in the manner of Isadora Duncan, she was a close friend of Carl Jung, developed a form of mime, in which the Greek myths were relayed, and established a theatre on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.

. Waited. There was a problem. Waited again. Anxious. Resolved .

Sun and Wind Frederick Varley 1915

Book tour update! #booksky

This is Sprout and Granola. They are enjoying a day on the lake. Yes, the propeller hats are necessary. They're helping with acceleration, obviously. 14/10 for both (IG: nolatheiggy)

Springtime https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-sisley/springtime-1889

For today's #MosaicMonday a hilarious #Roman mosaic depicting a boisterous #dog knocking over a basket and pulling out the contents. Life without #dogs is possible but pointless! 😊🐶🐕 On display at the Archaeological Museum Irbid/Jordan. 📷 Alex Brey via www.flickr.com/photos/looki...

A 3-4th century Roman mosaic from Bath featuring a dolphin and two hippocampi. Given its marine theme, it may have once decorated a private bath house. #MosaicMonday

Goodnight. 🖼️ Gabriela López Neumann #OwlishMonday

cannon hall gardens barnsley

B211.3.9 Speaking crow.

Some N. Yorkshire Pearl-bordered Fritillaries seen this morning. @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

Wishing you a calm and peaceful Sunday, from here in a buttercup-strewn Cambridgeshire 🥰

F169 Nature of the otherworld --miscellaneous.

sink low beneath the surface

Mollo women of West Timor who use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings #Womensart

yeah but that AI pic on your poem hurts my eyeballs

UK textie artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #WomensArt

8½ (1963) Director Federico Fellini

‘Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting…’ ~ Poe for #BookWormSat

Ancient amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen en.natmus.dk/historical-k... #Archaeology

. series a lot of blue .

“The little blue Forget-me-not Comes too on friendship’s gentle plea, Spring’s messenger in every spot, Smiling on all—‘Remember me!’” — from “On May Morning” by John Clare (1793–1864). #wildflowers

Thick-legged flower beetle on Cow parsley in Chettisham.

F1045 Night spent in tree.

#Sunset #Reflections #FenEdge #TheFens #Norfolk

Breaking the law Lomo LC Wide (half frame) Kodak Ultramax 400 Conan and I don't care about the laws of men or Gods. We do what we want! #HalfFrameFriday

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt

Meadow https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-sisley/meadow-1875

Wednesday's sky: actual sky, reflected sky, and twice-reflected sky.

look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales

A 6,000 year-old pottery bowl with five small hippos and a crocodile. From the grave of a woman and child at Matmar, near Asyut, Egypt. Early Predynastic, Naqada I. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Sunset Tom Thomson 1916

Roman fans loved sports merch too! This 2,000-year-old Roman glass cup from Colchester is a chariot racing souvenir. A Latin inscription hails ‘Cresces’ the winner! 🏆 It also bids farewell to his three losing opponents, Hierax, Olympus, and Antiocus! 👋 👋 👋 📷 by me #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

By the Loing https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-sisley/by-the-loing

This is Jam. He said he was the highest jumping golden retriever in Ontario. May or may not have lied on his resume. Still 13/10 (IG: skythepupvlogger)

The grounds of Dumfries House in Ayrshire are incredible - on a sunny day, it really feels like a little corner of paradise. As well as a Chinese Bridge and a maze, the estate also features areas that feel wonderfully wild. Turn the sound on for full effect! #Scotland #Nature #Garden