Batter up! (Novel ~about Mahler’s last trip)

Red Desert Big Flock waking up & preening. 2 caretaker couples are across the canal w 10 little ones. Going to be a big day of chomping as the wings are coming in

These clouds most certainly taste metallic

Lord Elmer

Eidolon 4.1 Helen in Egypt H.D. # poetrysunday Helen gets/is immortal Achilles numb w an ecstasy of desolation

Red Desert Big Flock waking up & preening. 2 caretaker couples are across the canal w 10 little ones. Going to be a big day of chomping as the wings are coming in

Lord Elmer

The Red Desert goslings are changing into big geese & now hanging out with the big flock

Ich nenne es 'Gans, die auf Skyline schaut'.

Bluesky Vultures

The Red Desert goslings are changing into big geese & now hanging out with the big flock

The Agony in the Garden 1627 Poussin. An explosion of red/orange/yellow/gold oils on copper. Met (best Nicky P’s outside Paris)

Off to see Payare do Mahler 1. If am transported away by Poussin angels it was nice knowing everyone on here

Bluesky Vultures

Leonardo learned to sit relative to a goose feather to look like a ferocious snapper. Turtlian mimicry. Maybe why he’s the only turtle sunning here

Vitti may as well have a halo with that shell shine and those awesome flippers. Peak turtle

Vitti may as well have a halo with that shell shine and those awesome flippers. Peak turtle

Leonardo learned to sit relative to a goose feather to look like a ferocious snapper. Turtlian mimicry. Maybe why he’s the only turtle sunning here

Then a day or so before everyone flies the box

Indifference to paparazzi

Miracle of this from that

Giotto's Santa Croce frescoes are receiving the final touches of a four-year restoration in Florence, with scaffolding poised to be removed ahead of an official reveal in September. u.afp.com/Sz5p

The inner and outer panels:

The ageing bourgeois couple trapped unto death in their godless and voluntary bondage is the pedestrian offspring of history. from Parade 2024 Rachel Cusk

It looks like it will be a David Hockney day. And nothing wrong with that. Fabulous living room, fabulous colors and patterns.

Inspired to draw after last few posts from @mmcarthur.bsky.social & coincidentally today Farley’s Books suggested the Edwards. Thx @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social for pointing to the Molesworth connecting math & Austen

Miracle of this from that

Indifference to paparazzi

Pontificating mallard w canal passing in front of him on a bridge over a big stream coming in from the river

Literally zero chance Agamemnon showed enough leadership to climb up that high to make room for others without being pushed, ergo 2 turtles behind him have already plummeted into the water

A top 3 Fra Angelico for #frafriday. The Tabernacle of the Linaioli (Linen Makers' Guild) Madonna and Child 1436 at San Marco in Florence, one of my favorite spots on earth.

San Marco Florence i.e. Fralandia #frafriday

Zoom to Madonna in the Fra Angelico at the Gardner Museum #frafriday

Piet Mondrian : (Molen) Windmill in Sunlight, 1908 Oil on canvas 114 x 87 cm | 44.8 x 34.2 in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague The windmill theme, which is so important in Mondrian's work, led him to create one of his masterpieces in the new luminist style. More info the alt text 👇

Tapestry-like detail, mille-fleurs on black background (my #FraFriday contribution): FRA ANGELICO (ca. 1395–1455, born in Vicchio di Mugello, died in Rome) Annunciazione 1430-32, detail

Totally agree about San Marco, it is an astonishing place. You feel privileged to experience such a unique and intimate connection with the Fra Angelico and his sublime art.

A top 3 Fra Angelico for #frafriday. The Tabernacle of the Linaioli (Linen Makers' Guild) Madonna and Child 1436 at San Marco in Florence, one of my favorite spots on earth.

94 degrees today so turtledom said NFW to sunning. Except these 3 doing the old log & gossip way out in the river

94 degrees today so turtledom said NFW to sunning. Except these 3 doing the old log & gossip way out in the river

Leonard Cohen by Eric Mulet 1995 🖤

Scene from a Memory 3

According to this article, the single most abundant vertebrate on Earth is the bristlemouth, "a crayon-size fish with a miniature monster’s maw for a face" that exists in the quadrillions in the deep sea. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Miracle of this from that-ing

Auchmithie Sunset, near Arbroath, painting by Deborah Phillips, Scottish artist.

In 1986, Leonard Cohen visited the Granada home of poet Federico García Lorca. Cohen asked for a moment alone. When his host returned, he found Cohen upside down.

Scene from a Memory 3

Perhaps I'm an ant, I smelled it too. #Literature&Politics orionmagazine.org/article/an-a...

Félix Vallotton (Swiss/French, 1865–1925) : Still Life with Nasturtiums, 1913 Oil on Canvas, 130 × 262 cm Private Collection Further description in the alt text 👇

Yasunari Kawabata (with scenes from the Mikio Naruse adaptation of the Kawabata novel "The Sound of the Mountain") - BOTD