"I so liked Spring last year..." • Charlotte Mew •

🔭 IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Rabeea Alkuwari ap260407

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

I hate when someone rings my doorbell because I have to drop whatever I’m doing to be silent and pretend I’m not home

the rare duck-billed platypup

"The sea rises, the light fails… The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." - James Baldwin

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Introducing Zie 1, The Dreamcatcher Nebula" by Mark Petersen, Oscar H., Patrick Ogle, Niklas Gelda and Mike Rich www.astrobin.com/x5nug9/ #astrophotography

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?” ― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

Ardnandave Hill from Loch Lubnaig #Scotland #Trossachs #Stirlingshire www.damianshields.com

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

More pics of Saturday’s cloud inversion in the Hope Valley

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~ G.K. Chesterton The Rainbow (1892) 🎨 Nikolay Dubovskoy

‪ Val d'Orcia (Tuscany, Italy, 2016) © Dino Corsini.

Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal First Edition

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit! Happy St Paddy's day to ye all! 🍀 Dingle Peninsula #Ireland #Dingle #CountyKerry www.damianshields.com

I swear, if you're a total idiot with a charisma, this is your golden age, this is your belle époque, this is your goddamn renaissance.

I don't want to ask the assistant a fucking question – why would I want to ask the fucking assistant a fucking question, I'm very obviously WhatsApping my fucking wife for fucks sake, when will this shit fucking END, get out of my fucking sight, sorry for swearing

Moorfrosch - Rana arvalis 📷_Nurnpaarbilder_ #naturephotography #nature #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2s1u8cU

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." ~ Emily Dickinson Songbird on Blossom Branch 🎨 Ohara Koson

Of course there were horses :) Stafafell, #Iceland

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

doing some highly involved forensics

🔭 The Cranium Nebula from the Webb Telescope Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) ap260309

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. (...) One must be willing to allow that symbolic things also mirror realities and sometimes provide greater esthetic pleasure than the merely realistic.” - Aaron Copland

"Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain **** Dolomites, Italy by marius_krey (wanderthewood)

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. - Eckhart Tolle

"It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else." - Sylvia Plath

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "M45 - Pleiades Cluster" by Michael Siniscalchi www.astrobin.com/5hv750/ #astrophotography

In 2 days I'm leaving for wild, amazing Patagonia to run my annual photography tours, timed for peak fall colors. Please visit my website at beautysurroundsyou.com/patagonia-ph... to find out more about our 2027 tours! I can't wait! #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #bluesky

The Lion Nebula Sh2-132 is a faint emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. It’s 10,000 light years from earth. I captured it with my Askar FRA500 telescope, ZWO AM5 mount, and ASI2600MC Duo camera. 😊 #astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Life in sepia... Another one from that windy sunset at Vestri-Fellsjara beach at Jökulsárlón a few days ago. #Iceland

Two Oaks, Geysers Road, Sonoma County, CA …above Geyserville, CA, these oaks are near the top of one of the iconic bike climbs in Sonoma County (2000’ in 4mi) #photography #blackandwhite #sonomacounty #landscape #bluesky #monochrome #landscapephotography #naturephotography #blueskyartshow #two

It is good to have empathy. But spending all day feeling miserable about everything bad happening in the world will not make the problems disappear. It is okay to step back sometimes and take a moment to relax and enjoy life.

The Morgan Library & Museum We love the edits Maurice Ravel made to this manuscript for La Valse! Check it out (and browse more music manuscripts!): bit.ly/hFBN6K Side note: Happy Birthday, Ravel!

Bands

🔭 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...

AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Arp 245" by Wolfgang Promper www.astrobin.com/7z4bsm/ #astrophotography

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

Pastel Dream A morning rich in frost, fog, colors and clouds. And a tree. What a beautiful atmosphere. Upper Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog

Max Švabinský In Paradise (also known as The Fruit Was Never an Apple), 1918

I captured these one year ago today on the 1st March 2025. One of my most memorable mornings out in nature, where the conditions and light combined into the most spectacular photographs. It still feels like yesterday.

Thomas Hoepker, New York, 1983.

Mike Hewitt, A Flock of Starlings gather over the derelict West Pier in Brighton.

“All art is a revolt against man’s fate.“ André Malraux, “The Voices of Silence”, 1951.

"Performance is an act of relationship-building with nature, with other musicians, with composers across history, and with listeners in the present moment (...) Fulfilment arises from commitment to the process not from the illusion of final arrival." - Hector Scott #classicalmusic

Good morning from Reynisfjara. Thought I was going to get frostbitten fingers this morning as it's bitterly cold! But sunny and calm :) #Iceland

🔭 The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope Image Credit & Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (U. Washington) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...

Forget the time

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #two. Here are two pitcher plants out in a bog in North Florida. They seem to be having a nice chat. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #pitcherplants #sarracenia #bogs #bogplants #botanicalart #Nikon #Lightroom

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”