Arcade Random Posting

Today’s painting from my studio sale: oil on panel, 40 x 50cm. 20% off all available work until Christmas, + free p&p within Europe (all other destinations contact me for a quote) and payment plans upon request. www.artachart.com 🙂

#RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers Neptune, the mysterious, which I planted last year after seeing it in a Bluesky post. I couldn’t find the right spot in the garden for ages and it sat in a pot neglected but once the clematis flowered it was obvious where it needed to be.

The California Nebula (NGC 1499), shot in narrowband (RGB for the stars) and processed in the Hubble pallette. About 13 hours of data shot over two evenings. Shot with my 80-mm f/5 refractor. More details on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/fbhw1e #astrophotography

A mind-blowing photo from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on Feb. 1-2, 2010: the Mystic Mountain, located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away. #Hubble #astrophotography Link for more info and photos: go.nasa.gov/44n4DLG

Copper Creek wolf returned to Grand County after entering New Mexico ->Summit Daily | #wolf | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Who could forget the annual ugly Christmas sweater competition episode?

This old photo possibly recorded the actual moment I fell in love with cake. Note the random old art & portraits of strangers on the wall. That contributed to my love of history. I also think there's a plastic straw in the photo, you youngsters don't know what those are ;)

Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples

Words I like: crumble asterisk, asteroid, rhomboid, stickleback, katydid, ruffle, memory, thunderous, turret, mangrove, parrot, spurious, dichotomy, glimmering, lemonade, irrepressible, dusk.

found a tie that matches my dog

A Winter Landscape: oil on primed, unstretched hessian, 50 x 100cm. Today’s piece from my studio sale - 20% off all work until Christmas www.artachart.com/available-work 🙂

A boy and his rope

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

A nice little haul from Ted's garden this afternoon - I planted everything except the beans! The radishes proper radishes, with heat, not like those weak-sauce ones you get at the supermarket. All the spinach has gone into a tasty little Spanakorizo to accompany some Greek chicken thighs. Yum!

Time to cleanse my timeline 🤣 Summer sunset walk with a view of Table Mountain, SOUTH AFRICA.

A new study shows that over 90% of insect biomass declines are driven by shrinking species numbers, posing a risk to ecosystem function. www.idiv.de/majority-of-... #biodiversity

Mood

White Daisy #photography #flowers #art #macro

Trinity College chapel, pastel. I'd forgotten about this one. Spotted when looking through photos of paintings on an SD card. I think this one is oil pastel but I'll have to find the original to be sure. #art #Cambridge #pastel

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Yellow Faced Bumblebee on a Pride of Madeira #photograph #flowers #bees

Painting by singer Joni Mitchell "40 below 0" Nice❣️ #BlueSkyArt #Painting #Landscape #JoniMitchell

What’s up with that face youtu.be/GyEa4jtJ8RU

Giving mine big paw & very serious #CatsNoirFriday look to you all. Get some sweet sleep beautiful babies. Need lots of energy for #Caturday. Tomorrow. Family sends extra hugs 💤💙💤

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

Heron and Cranes

Each time, the found world surprises - that is its nature. Jane Hirshfield

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Night Ocean #AIイラスト #aiart #synthart #aurora #ocean #waves

Am I in a mood? Oh yeah, cause I just discovered there's new Portugal the Man, SHISH, and I can't stop listening . At their best, Portugal the Man is a bit of dark magic, like embers flashing across a night sky that get bigger and pierce your skull and then you're a flame flashing across a night sky

Belgian #NewBeat group #MondoBagdad changed their name to #BlueVertigo after learning that #SaddamHussein used chemical weapons against Iranians- their 1988 track “Abadan” was written in support of that city in southern Iran- it was a beloved #StarckClub classic #80sMusic #80s youtu.be/AqBPKYyhA8c

I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

The most maddening thing about this is that restoring inanga spawning habitat is really easy. Like, the easiest, fastest results I've seen in any project. We've got to stop monitoring towards extinction and actually start spending money on fixing the problems! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)

why is it called “orthodontist”,,,, imagine telling someone you’ve got a dontist appointment

Billionaires remind me of The Sheriff of Nottingham and I am just waiting for 5 billion Robin Hoods to take up archery. 🎯

I really need to practice saying “what a weird, rude thing to say” to the people who say weird, rude things to me

A few pics from today from up Kāpiti's Mount Maunganui.

Me

P-p-p-poper face, p-p-poper face