Celebrate #WorldBookDay with a look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914

… worn-out wood with dead flowers … or … a lost seascape and forgotten island … ▫️ small wonders ▫️

The shivering sun of strange times

#blueskyartshow #round #fan

▫️ curb stones ▫️ every day, walked over, biked over, kicked at, run over by cars, by lorries, by builders, by dogs, and by every kind of weather ▫️ never the same - small wonders ▫️

In The Gutter, Sawston

.. waiting for the season to turn ..

HALT ME A line-for-line perfect anagram of Hamlet’s "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy.

▫️ one wall - many worlds ▫️

Trapped air bubbles under a layer of ice.

𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁

13/2/26

... as if all the birds left at the same moment ... [or just a worn out wall by the sea front]

this far | no further

🤍 tiny dancer 🤍

▫️ unforgotten ▫️

Passing on the flow.

more rummaging through the archives today for the next project I found this stone in edinburgh some years ago but hadn't realised that it looks equally fascinating and completely different upside down [walking through walls]

winter wallpaper

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

▫️ the winter sea ▫️ [walking through walls]

many thanks to the @treehousebookshop.bsky.social the secret books arrived today - both unknown to me and both looking interesting 💫 do give a hand to the bookshop if you can 💫

my heart’s in the highlands www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uad... I love this beautiful work of arvo pärt - played here by david james (countertenor) & christopher bowers-broadbent (organ) many thanks for posting it today @emmaharding.bsky.social‬

back late, wind down the window to smell the night: barn owl deathray screech close enough yr hair stands on end

▪️ winter steps ▪️

Early stroll. Those clouds look like paintings of old snow. Two leaning streetlights like cocktail sticks in a pot. A late/early Christmas tree in a window. Am I on the fringes of that passing motorbike’s dream? I break a puddle’s fragile window.

the darkness and the light

@imcmillan.bsky.social so pleased to find you here ian! sending warm wishes for the new year ✨✨✨

Skip inside.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false. Descartes

lost & found sorting through much older work to mix for a new project - so happy to discover some long lost memories

. Adventure is worthwhile in itself. #AmeliaEarhart #collage #collageart #art #analogcollage #blueskycollage #biplane

... otherworld ...

MORNING (Anagrammed Lines) Nature painted this morning as a thorn in untried pigment, a mad night in turpentines, or the turning points in a dream....

& rise of full quiet moon (cold corvid moon?), 1st of 2026 (so long hill & river moon, time of moonlight flitting)

💫some of my favourite wanderings💫 walking through walls - peering into basement windows - bumping into boat yards ✨warm thanks to everyone who enjoyed them and wishing you all a good new year ahead- or, at least, a sometimes interesting one … stay curious …

Dec 30th 2024 Revisited: Hastings

christmas trees in the snow … … or the reverse of a freestanding street sign … ✨warm wishes to everyone l know here and many thanks ✨

magical christmas lights edinburgh botanic gardens

.. light to dark | dark to light ..

The thing I love about drone photography is finding patterns that look so much better from above! Bilton Beach, Durness #Scotland

'Winter Hedgerow' Mixed media on Paper - Time of the Season Exhibition - Two Doors Studio in Alsager Open Every Day until Christmas Eve www.twodoorsstudio.co.uk

💨 🍃 walk on through 🍃💨

december 9 the mirror

even though I am guessing that most people I know here are close to hookland I would still like to remind everyone of my most favourite of its wonders: 🌲 the #HooklandChristmasTree with love and thanks to hookland as ever 💚

🍂 december kerbside - accidental art 🍂

🌑 walking through walls 🌑

this beautiful song of love and loss 🤍 love and thanks to you annie for taking us to the beach

▫️ ice season ▫️ snow queen approaching

winterwall