#SomethingBeautiful how can I be so lucky as to get to see this on mjy way to the bank?

Flowers on the windowsill, with the rise of the Dartmoor hills beyond, on a golden evening in early autumn. #tinyjoys

EX FUMO IN LUCEM, from the dark to the light. This #earlymodern printing press is waiting for action. The motto was a marketing thing, as many publishers thought of themselves as bringers of light. To be more precise: they thought of themselves as sellers of enlightened paper goods. #bookhistory

Yeah, me too little fox

#SomethingBeautiful Overflowing bounty of flowers.

This book is wonderful, I give it my highest recommendation.

Flowering Plants in Autumn, Ogata Kōrin, C18th.

#SomethingBeautiful a new piece from my aunt Mary Lace

Do we have a new anthology project in mind? Oh yes! Find out more here: www.kickstarter.com/...

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Happy first day of autumn!!! (In the northern hemisphere at least... and those west of UTC-02:00). ⁠ Pictured here: Maple Trees at Mama (1857) by Utagawa Hiroshige. More works by Hiroshige → https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utagawa-hiroshige-last-great-master-of-ukiyo-e

‘Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards.’ ~ The Waste Land, T S Eliot for #BookWormSat

New sonnet on my Patreon The Joy of Spice Market www.patreon.com/posts/joy-of...

A photo from today's walk: strawflower #bloomscrolling

Flaubert on arriving in Alexandria in 1849: "I gulped down a whole bellyful of colours, like a donkey filling himself with hay."

Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Driftwood, Adam Oehlers.

I didn’t dig up the dahlia tubers last fall. We had a seriously cold winter. But this dahlia decided to thrive anyway. Be like dahlia!

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

I can confirm this truth.

So that's something. That's really something!

Canada’s new government is creating an entirely new housing industry. Build Canada Homes will use the latest technology — factory-built homes, modular housing, and mass timber — to build affordable homes at a scale and speed not seen in generations.

So...guess what I've been doing? It's the story of an ex-harpy, her harpy ex-girlfriend, and some extremely opinionated weaponry. Pastries! Operettas! Complicated friendships! Coming soon to a page or e-reader near you!

Happy book birthday to SUNWARD, a cozy scifi adventure by award-winning writer William Alexander (@willalex.bsky.social)! 🎉 SUNWARD follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s moon.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

This is what the surface of a comet looks like. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

#orangesun #flowers #roses #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #coloraday #gardening #photography Past, present and future on one stem.

ahhhhh Jo Walton finally has a new book on the way, June 30th 2026!!!! 📖 my day has now been made and it's not even 10am 🥹

🖼️ Tawny Owl, Harriet Bane. #OwlishMonday

My first novel, The King's Peace, a book you might quite reasonably have missed since it came out in 2000, is available for $2.99 as an ebook today. Sequel The King's Name is also on sale. It's about civilization. www.amazon.com/Kings-Peace-...

Affirmations for every artist here!!!

Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

The Hazel Copse, Robin Tanner, 1986.

New poem on my Patreon: Looking down from Fiesole. www.patreon.com/posts/lookin...

God sends a curst cow short horns

Canadian Autumn

Oh btw the audiobook of EXADELIC is 50% off 'til Oct 3: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

What poster did you have hanging on the wall as a child?

William Alexander's Sunward is a lovely cozy sci-fi about found family and community. Out 9/16 from Saga Press. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/09/10/r...

I stumbled across a 90th Birthday video for Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose music was such a part of my life while I was on public radio. I started listening . . . and the music took me to where we keep promising each other that art will take us in hard times, but don't really believe.

#SomethingBeautiful a still life by my aunt Mary Lace, who is 81 this week and painting better than ever

Grannonia and the fox, Warwick Goble, 1911.

Oh I’ve been waiting for this one! Incredible! #ShareGoodNewsToo

#SomethingBeautiful one of the windows in the Duomo

#SomethingBeautiful Gelato with friends

The view outside my kitchen window.

✨Just felt like posting a picture of a happy hedgehog gazing at the stars and wondering what’s out there… ⭐️

We've been having this kind of weather in Florence the last few days, storms and clouds, and bursts of sunshine. #SomethingBeautiful

But when I really want to honor or remember the feelings of that day, I reread John M Ford’s “110 Stories.” nielsenhayden.com/110.html

My Bluesky seems to be missing the “like this times ten million” button