A good day... A visit from friends from England, then creating a new art journal, which will be a collaborative one - I'm now four years' into this practice. Will be working on this one with an artist in Cornwall, sending it back and forth via snail mail. #journal #mixedmediaart

🖼️ Gennady Spirin #FrogForFriday

For the first time, archaeologists have analysed ash residue from incense burners preserved at Pompeii, revealing the substances burnt as offerings to the gods in Roman households and the long-distance trade undertaken to acquire them. A fragrant #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

I grew up on a family farm and spent thousands of hours in the fields working like a man since I was a little boy. When I see an image like this, I think about all the time spent by the farmer/rancher in northern Spain to fill this trailer. #farming #trailers #spain #photography

The houses of #Katzenthal for @richardmortimer.bsky.social

"Within the shelter of black yews The owls in ranks are ranged apart Like foreign gods, whose eyeballs dart Red fire. They meditate and muse." - Baudelaire, 'The Owls' (trans. Roy Campbell) #OwlishMonday #owls #poetry #poetrysky #decadents #BookChatWeekly

The husband and I did some tidying today, and the kitchen table now feels lovely and calm. Enjoying some tea from a crockery set gifted for our wedding several years ago. Also, getting to grips with Nerval's style of writing #bookchatweekly

stonecrop, lichen and moss

Layered monoprints from maple leaves. The first from a white, lace-like skeleton of a Field Maple, the other perhaps a hybrid - found somewhere between Burgundy and Bath. There'll be a third in the series. Would you like to see these as postcards or greetings cards? #maple #trees #mixedmediaart

Today's sketch... Elements from this view... Noticing the willows again. #sketch #croquis #willow #saulepleurer

Massive, old-growth eastern white pine that was somehow spared the axe on a bend in the Sturgeon River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #ThickTrunkTuesday!

Really appreciating willow trees 💚 #thicktrunkTuesday

Found this little flower on today’s hike 🌸🥾 #ColorADay #Pink #Spring

Friendly faces from one of our favourite walks... #mammalmonday #Bourgogne

A Tufted Titmouse patiently waiting for a peanut.

Today's sketch. An impression by the river. #sketch #croquis #baladedujour #dailywalk

Walk along the limestone clifftops today. Saw this unusually coloured wild primrose. #wildflower #primavere

It looks like it's the grasshopper! (after counting the votes on this and another platform). Will let you see the postcard soon! #gouachepainting #grasshopper #postcards #cartepostale

Heart-warming and encouraging to know that this is happening in London today.

A sketch from yesterday's walk.. Un petit croquis d'hier... #baladedujour #dailywalk #sketch

This is such an interesting account to follow. Lovely artwork showing amazing and tiny lifeforms.

It's #PhantomsFriday again tomorrow when ghostly posts will make their presence known with fascinating facts and fancies. #Folklore, fiction, poetry, art, popular culture, haunted locations - any pertinent to the spooky subject will be welcome. #BookChatWeekly #artsky #booksky

Love the patterning on these.

#BookologyThursday A few lines from Nocturnal Poet (2014) by K. A. Opperman combined with a 1976 drawing by Stephen Fabian. More information in alt text.

Nipping to the brilliant @thebookvault.bsky.social in Barnsley today to pick up a book I ordered about writing in New Orleans. Support your local bookshop!

Collected a variety of dry, local grasses and created this mixed media monoprint. Letting it rest for a while before deciding whether to work on it more or leave it as it is... #mixedmediaart #monoprint #natureinspiredart

Just learned this unbelievably beautiful creature I saw today is a Royal Paper Bubble Shell/Snail. A name worthy of its magnificence. All hail. #mollusk #gastropod #love #photography #smallwonders #marinelife #nature #nokings

#ColorADay #RedWed #Photography #Macro #Spring

Love the lines, contrast and the bleakness of this!

Northern Flicker V for Vendetta #birds

It's currently between the Grasshopper and the Italian Greyhounds' Disco... Please vote for your preference in the comments 🙏 #mixedmediaart #postcards #cartespostales

I love the subtle neutrals and pastel shades in #Auxerre, Burgundy. #WallsonWednesday

Don’t ever let a recipe tell you how much garlic to put in. You measure that with your heart.

From a very rustic kitchen... Cooked this vegetable curry on the old cuisiniere. Just need to reheat tonight. Is great for this type of food, but unpredictable for baking. Husband adds wood and gets it going in the evenings - lovely as temperature falls significantly in this continental climate.

Out walking with my love by the Glencree River, she spotted these patterns. "My river runs to thee". #hiking #photography #river #sensoryart #spring #stunday #coloraday #orangesun #eastcoastkin #ireland

Good Tuesday morning. It's now 7:39 a.m. & 28° outside, with a gray sky. My daily post today features photos from my "house plant" files picturing the bud & blossom of a Starfish Cactus (Stapelia grandiflora). It's actually a succulent with large, 6 to 8" flowers that smell of rotting meat.

Pink spirea memories of the summer garden. #ColorADay #PinkMon #BloomScrolling #spirea #SummerGarden #bee #photography #EastCoastKin

I'm thinking of creating postcards from one of these artworks. Which do you prefer? (I will print the favourite first). Wolf Fountain 1 Wolf Fountain 2 Italian Greyhounds' Disco Pink Grasshopper #gouachepaintings #postcards #oilpastel

Hiked Dead Man’s Hollow today near #Pittsburgh, now a conservation area but once a factory and rumored bandit hideout. Miles of great trails, wildflowers (yes, already) and lots of stories of ghosts and buried loot. On my way out, passed a couple with a metal detector and shovel!! #photography

I thought the texture on this tree was pretty interesting :) #Stunday Sunday ☀️ #Photography #B&W #ClassicMono

Orme de montagne Wych elm #dailywalk #baladedujour #treesky

Rhodonite is such a gorgeous colour!

Lovely work by @artbyemilytull.bsky.social 💚 #UKGiftHour

San Francisco has some gorgeous places. 🤩 Also there are redwoods here and I know they are redwoods because they are ludicrously tall. God I love redwoods.

Is there a better way to start #SundayMorning than to #supportsmallbusiness and #planahead for all #giftideas occasions with UK indies & creatives? 🙂 Then join the #shopindie community on Bluesky for #UKGIftHour #UKGIftAM - 9am-midday - one of the more rewarding scrolling experiences 🤗 🎁

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Taughannock Falls, Ulysses, N.Y. #fingerlakes #waterfalls timeline cleanse

I just wanted to share this capture of glittering sunlight on the wishing trees at Avebury.

Contentment ! Thank you to Hussain Sparkle Anila for today's #FoxOfTheDay