Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

"Henry David Thoreau". from "Last Words" - a sequence of poems each starting with the last words (sometimes apocryphal) of a well-known person. (Note in Comments.) [1/2] #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #lastwords #henrydavidthoreau #thoreau

#DailySketch: Bird #illustration #drawing #art

An exquisite poem that finds Pathos and Carpe Diem shaking hands like old friends. A.E. Housman 🖎

This painting is titled "Clairvoyant" and was created by the French artist Pierre Bonnard. (1867–1947). Style: Post-Impressionism/Intimism

Finished! “Let It Be”. Coloured pencil on hot pressed paper. Based on photos I took of a barred owl in a Toronto ravine. #SciArt #Birds

#ProtestArt #NoKings #Resistance

"Inward-focused shame distracts from systemic violence" -Planning an overdue update to my website and having a look thru my old portfolio. Here is a favorite from some of the posters I was making in 2020 when I first got my ipad! #poster #inspiration #systemicviolence #politicalcartoon #indiecomic

I’ve woken up at 3.05, or is it 2.O5? Or perhaps 1.05? If you are not sure what time it is, always take the advice of Charles Baudelaire and ask the “wind, wave, star, bird, clock” and they will tell you it is time to get drunk… but I might just have a nice cup of horlicks, instead.

Jennifer Lynch, from The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Zane the frog

Was today years old when I learned that they have vending machines for books. There’s still hope y’all ☺️

Some close ups of the jay #watercolours #birdart 🪶

One reason I love this poem so much is because for all the beauty of the stoicism he describes, Hayden makes a point of including a reference to "fearing the chronic angers of that house." So if we're bringing back selfless sacrifice as a model of masculinity, let's try to leave out chronic angers.

Repost with 5 to 9 items within reach. #RandomFlatLay

A little pastel I did. Art soothes the soul in these trying times… #art #pastel #trees #sky

The word courage is very interesting. It comes from a Latin root cor, which means “heart.” So to be courageous means to live with the heart. It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. 💙 Osho, Courage... #MixedMedia52 #spring #SensoryArt #ECK

#Antique #Indian #Textiles

Unfortunately the cardinals won’t be listed today as I’m not happy with the colour balance on the print, so need to spend more time on it. But here’s a portrait of a eurasian eagle owl. Painted in gouache on a watercolour background. #gouache #birdart 🪶


The exact light that landed on those beds was the exact light I needed. It was never precisely like this before and will never be this way again. 
Or, as Bruce Cockburn says “Look how far the light came/to paint you this way.” 
National Ranching Heritage Center
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.8.2026

A fantastic read!

Clare Leighton, Blackbird on nest, lithograph of wood engraving, 1935

Gág contributed to leftist, anti-capitalist magazines, including The New Masses, The Liberator and The Nation. Her artwork, such as the lithograph “Progress” and her drawing “Stone Crusher,” reflect a deep discomfort with the industrial age and the dehumanizing nature of modernization. /8

Jaehyang Lee, Crazy Daisy, five-colour stone lithograph, 2023

One swipe of the sonogram and the midwife had the sex predicted… —Janette Ayachi, “New Mother” published in HAND OVER MOUTH MUSIC, @livunipress.bsky.social 2019 #MothersDay #poem #poetry www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The secret to painting like this is to blast the Jax Jones remix of Show by Ado and while you go insane this appears on your paper-- [ #watercolor #traditionalart ]

#caturday 🐈‍⬛

“It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.” — Isaac Stern till next time🥀

These were an absolute treat to find today! Successional Ear-pick fungi, Auriscalpium vulgare. #FunkyFungi #FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss #Photography

A bashful magnolia blossom from last May. #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #ECK #Stunday #Bloomscrolling

#BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal A place to sit and enjoy the horizon at Qualicum #Beach, Vancouver Island. #photography #BritishColumbia #LeftCoast

#BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal

#caturday #bloomscrolling #ColorADay #GreenSat #BlueSkyArtShow #horizontal 🌿🌱

Just a dog and his boy. Mr. Calvin going horizontally for an early audition for SuperDog. (Kidding). Cannon Beach, Oregon. #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Horizontal #Horizen #photgraphy #poetry #ECK #WCK #PNW #MickTrip #RoadTrip #MickPic #Ocean #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #Beach

Shadows. #PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK #ClassicMono #BlueSkyArtShow #horizontal #StripesonSaturday #SaturdayMono #LightAndShadow

It's Saturday's #BlueSkyArtShow and the theme is #horizontal. Hubbard Glacier, Alaska

Quite a few #horizontal lines in my second #lithograph here. I can’t wait till next semester when I can spend the whole time in the #lithography studio. I’ve e fallen in love with a new medium. And it makes for good #BluSkyArtShow posts.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Somewhere to get lost…

Every time I decide to jump back in the dating pool, after only a week or so this is me. Where have all the good guys gone?

Annnd, we have prints! #lithography #lithograph #printmaking #prints Has enough time to make six, only four came out good but that means I can add color to the two bad ones 🤩 Better pic to come.

Your pet is chosen to be immortalized on a bank note Which picture are you submitting?

after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring— Louise Glück

Blueberry blossoms are back! #photography #art #bloomscoll #flowers

1st etch and second etch complete, though I forgot to get a pic of the latter. Printing on Thursday.

‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’ ‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’ ‘Hello’ is not related to either. Goodbye.

Because I was in back of a clump, I turned away. This was my reward. Ragusa Ibla, Sicily photographed 9.7.2022 #haiku #poetry #sicily #ragusaibla