Some of the surviving frescoes from the House of Livia, the wife of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The frescoes date to around 30 BC. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): The "Robin Redbreast" was given its nickname long before a distinction was made in the English language between "Red" & "Orange". Superb photo taken by Martina Olivia of this fluffy Robin taken in the UK. #robin #europeanrobin #robinredbreast #vird #birds #nature

Cristina Coral

triumph grapefruits, painted by bertha heiges, 1897

Consciousness … is the only real thing in the world and the greatest mystery of all. ~Vladimir Nabokov Bend Sinister

Female wood duck with 14 ducklings next to a hedge in the Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens, Tasmania. Wood ducks almost always seem to be in pairs but today this female was by herself. A lone male wood duck was sitting out of sight at a fountain on the other side of the hedge.

In a deeply felt personal relationship, it is possible to experience emotionally all that one never has, and perhaps never will experience in life. ~Patrick White

People worldwide, are vowing to join the next flotilla. Organizers say hundreds of boats could sail next time, a rising tide of resistance against Israel's impunity is growing and will eventually drown away tyranny & injustice. #GlobalSumudFlotilla #3E

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters. Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

The word esoterism, so often misused, refers to the unavoidable necessity of expressing the reintegration of the human being in symbols. ~Henry Corbin …the aim of every symbol: the reintegration of man into the All... ~Mircea Eliade

wildflowers blooming in the autumn shadows ~Akari 📷 Eliot Porter, Dried Sunflowers in Oat Field, 1957

un mot qui n'est pas dit, un silence qui est prononcé, une présence qui est absence 📸 Ann-Louise Soderlund

'Free to be' by contemporary US illustrator and artist Ekua Holmes #WomensArt

Juan Ballesteros

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

📷 Oana Stoian. Slow burn.

Pierre Jahan

Thank you for following WA ...🧡 Have a great Friday xx

the good is uniting against these forces, and so is made stronger. the fight being not a fight at all but rather a dimension of love. looking back, you will see a profound innocence. all things change.

Missing You 2 (2022) by Charles Choi. Oil on canvas.

Elon Musk is now the first person in history worth $500 billion. For context: A UN study said ending world hunger would cost just $6 billion. He could’ve solved it 83 times, but chose to buy Twitter, pump Dogecoin, and lay off workers instead. Welcome to late-stage capitalism. B. Allen

💟 L'Art de bien vivre et de bien mourir (The Art of Living Well and of Dying Well), 1494 #AntoineVérard #booksarepower #illustration www.pba-auctions.com/lot/1392/378...

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." -Confucius 🌞💙🌙

Mongolia series Marco van Duyvendijk www.marcovanduyvendijk.nl/portfolio/mo... #art #photography

#OtD 3 Oct 1932 thousands of workers in Belfast, both Catholic and Protestant, went on strike together while over 30,000 took to the streets and rioted in protest against an exploitative state workfare scheme stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1024...

Roussillon, Sentier des Ocres. Luberon. October 2005. #photography #landscape #trees #autumn #mountains #Luberon #France

Empathie: impactée par le manque de personnel qualifié et comprenant les besoins des patients Pandémie: Le Qc est-il prêt à affronter une autre pandémie? Non -Aucun plan national pour améliorer la qualité de l’air dans les espaces publics incluant les écoles pour contrer les virus se transmettant

Peasant Woman with Spade - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13730

Cranks, conspiracies & collateral. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goodnight, friends.. ✨ 📷: Pinterest

Big Bear Lake, California Have a good night's rest In the waning light, where sky and water meet in stillness, let the hush of dusk hold you. Drift gently, carried by the grace that only nightfall knows. #photography #bigbearlake #California #landscapephotography

Jamie Wyeth, New England Pie Pumpkins (1992)

The opus consists of three parts: insight, endurance, and action. Psychology is needed only in the first part, but in the second and third parts moral strength plays the predominant role. ~C.G. Jung

Sibel Ünal

Joshua Tree National Park Even in the loneliest stretch of desert, something stands tall. Rooted. Reaching. Reminding us that strength doesn’t shout—it endures. #photography #Joshuatreenationalpark #landscapephotography

Erika Vaitkutė

Waxing Gibbous moon at 80% illumination tonight. The moon is rising over a Monterey Cypress next to San Francisco Bay, Emeryville, California. #moon #nature #eastcoastkin

"The UK is "shockingly underprepared" for changing weather patterns caused by climate change, nature trusts have said." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grace Cossington Smith, Bridge pillar (1929)

Bright Light at Russell's Corners - George Ault, 1946

John Baldessari, High Flight, 1986 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135322

Innocence...

Another watcher on the cliffs. This coyote was one of a pack that were feeding on discarded fish. I think I might have woken up this one from a nap in the sunshine as I paddled around the point. #mammals 🌿

Go ahead... Break them all... 'Heart of the Matter' Acrylic on cotton canvas.