That looks so much like a Scotty. I had some shortbread out of a tin with something similar on it with my cup of tea 😂👍

Happy Thursday all. 😁

Remains of the Roman Fort at Ambleside in the Lake District. Built during the 2nd century AD, the fort guarded the Roman road from Brougham to Ravenglass, and replaced an earlier 1st century fort. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Ambleside #Cumbria

Fresco decoration from the room of the Pine Festoons - one of the rooms in the House of Augustus (Domus Augusti), located on the Palatine Hill in Rome. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

Some Early Bronze Age bling for #FindsFriday The Tarrant Valley lunula (little #moon), a decorated gold foil collar / neck ornament Made between 2200 and 1900 BC Found in 3 pieces in 2014-15 and now on display in Dorset Museum 📷 Sept 2024 #FindsFriday

Decorative detail from the High Toynton Hanging Bowl which was found in 2000 at High Toynton, near Horncastle in Lincolnshire. The bowl is one of several Anglo-Saxon bowls found in Lincolnshire. Now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Lincoln

• Silver coin - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. • Gold one-escudo coin. Minted in Naples. Coins recovered represent 14 mints in 6 different countries. From Spanish Armada galleon “Girona” Shipwrecked 26th October 1588 Recovered 1967/8 Now Ulster Museum, Belfast #FindsFriday #Tudor #Archaeology

#findsfriday - the Lewis Chess pieces. Now in the @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Edinburgh, these 12-13 century items were made from walrus ivory & whale teeth, found in around 1831. Initially carved in Norway they highlight links to Scandinavia. Quite wonderful. #archaeology #chess

A #RomanGlass cup made with coloured glass rods known as ‘millefiori’ from #Pompeii. It was preserved in the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption material. Glass objects like this are luxurious things and would have been expensive. 📷 my own, Naples Archaeological Museum. #FindsFriday

Wondrous!

Excavated in the 1930s, together with a number of other carved ivory figurines and some of the world’s earliest known musical instruments, from Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. Dated Aurignacian period. On display Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany. More: archaeology.org/issues/onlin...

⚕️ FDA Approves First Non-Antipsychotic Drug to Treat Agitation Associated with Dementia 🔗 www.fda.gov/news-events/... 🌐 #DHPSP #Pharma #Healthcare

A freshly minted Monarch, drying its wings and almost ready for first flight!

It's grim up North...

“Canada is experiencing a mass disabling event driven in large part by the ongoing transmission of COVID-19 & other communicable diseases. Disability rates are rising…& scientific guidance…has documented the long-term impacts of post-COVID conditions on cognitive, cardiovas., & functional health.”

The beautiful door of a closed house under the protection of these wildflowers.. 🌿🌺

One of my favorite places. It's always great for taking beautiful photos.⛰️🌿

Feather is chilling in my wildlife garden.

DANELECTRO CORAL T2N6 TEAR DROP - 2pu sunburst hollowbody electric guitar, Neptune NJ 1968. For Sale. Obscenely hard to find w/2 dynamic lipstick pups. Very clean w/1 minor blemish. Ready to get you Confessin The Blues! www.vintagesilvertones.com/product/dane... #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Danelectro

Susan Cavaliere - Beltane. oil on canvas.

SIGMA-MARTIN E-18 - 2pu nautral solidbody electric guitar Japan 1978. Sold. Martin's venture into lower cost electric guitars yielded the E-18. Lightweight, unique styling w/Rocking gritty pickups. Designed in the US built in Japan. www.vintagesilvertones.com #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Martin #Sigma

MARTIN F50 - 1pu sunburst hollowbody electric guitar Nazareth PA 1961. Sold. Martin's first foray into electrics started in the early 1960s. This beauty held its own with a DeArmond Dynasonic pickup, clean lines, and lightweight. www.vintagesilvertones.com #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Martin

I find it baffling that @healthfoundation.bsky.social brushed off Covid with 'Although the pandemic contributed to recent trends, it does not explain them'. Isn't it obvious we had major problems (austerity, inequality) then Covid damaged our health and worsened everything? bsky.app/profile/heal...

“I am. See this thing on my face covering my nose and mouth?” #COVID

Long Covid cases grow every week. Don’t become a statistic. #CleantheAir #WeShareTheAir #Covidisairborne Vaccinate Open windows Buy a Hepa air purifier Monitor CO2 levels- try to keep them below 800ppm Wear a respirator- ffp2/3 Rest if you catch COVID

#BOTD 1891. Remembering blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter Charley Patton. (d.1934) #BluesSky

G.L. STILES - 2pu off-white solidbody electric guitar Florida, 1961. Sold. Independent luthier Gilbert Lee Stiles built about 1500 unique, custom-made guitars from approx 1960-1990. Early parts were all hand-made including the pickups. www.vintagesilvertones.com #VintageGuitar #Guitar #Stiles

Randy M. - Three Wild Dasies. Watercolour on paper.

Bluebells in local woods. My favourite time of year 💙

Sweetnighter, the third studio album by Weather Report, was released #OTD 1973 on Columbia Records.

La passeggiata verso la spiaggetta naturista è un'esperienza visiva e olfattiva unica. La meraviglia di oggi sono le rose canine e il profumo intenso, quasi ubriacante dei fiori della robinia. La dolcezza del miele viene da qui

Nick Moss Band with Dennis Gruenling, Amityville, NY, 5-April-2025

Forest paths where I have walked. 'This is the Lovers' Path', parallel to a stream.🌿🌳

TIm Donahue harp guitar

"Bird" #synthart #nature

The Seven Samurai was released #OTD 1954. Director: Akira Kurosawa. #Filmsky

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950) El Capitan, 1925. Coloured Woodblock.

My favourite item at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum a few years ago was a little limestone flake like this with a sketch of a donkey on it. I love it.

The stunning mummy portrait of Eirene is one of the few mummy portraits that bears an inscription. It mentions the deceased as well as her parents: Eirene, daughter of Silvanos, her mother is Senpnoutis. May her soul live forever before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, the Lord of Abydos. 🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Although the reason I mask in all public indoor spaces is to mitigate my risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2, regardless of the healthcare available to me, the state of emergency departments in my country really does sharpen my desire to avoid getting seriously ill. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Panel for Elbow Pillow - #painting#art#artist#oilpainting#paint#museum#artgallery#traditionalart#blueskyart

a collectible art print titled "Siamese Cat at the Cafe" by artist Jay Schmetz.

ROBERT QUINE OWNED BILL EVANS "MOON BEAMS" album w/NICO on the cover. Quine's signature is on the back cover. Not for sale. Following on our Robert Quine guitars feature-a signed album from his collection. www.vintagesilvertones.com #VintageGuitar #RobertQuine #NICO #VelvetUnderground #LouReed

A few more April azaleas! 💜🩷💜 #nature #photography #flowers #azaleas #spring #WeekPforPurple #blooms #AlphabetChallenge #bloomscrolling

382 years ago, on the 25th of April 1644, the last emperor of Ming China committed suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng. It is said he hung himself from a tree. This was a pivotal event in the transition from Ming to Qing. #otd #history 🗃️

The Witch Willow reminds you that some beings don’t need permission to be strange, or powerful, or beautifully out of step with the world. They just root deeper, bend with the wind, and keep their quiet magic anyway.

The Mold Cape Crushed and broken, the Mold Cape was discovered at Bryn yr Ellyllon burial mound in 1833. The cape, made in 1900-1600BC, is unique. Nothing like it exists anywhere else. Neatly modelled by my daughter 😉 📷 my own. Liverpool, Treasure exhibition. #FindsFriday #Art #History