Blueberry season

fern 🌿

If we hope to prevent the collapse of education, we must collectively affirm that the intellectual life is good in itself: that research, study, the reading of great books, enrich the soul. For decades we’ve been told knowledge is for losers, and now we’re reaping the results.

I'm back here after quite awhile away. I'd forgotten how much fun twitter can be. Yes, I still call it twitter. :)

"By the Lake" by Yuko Murakoshi

UK contemporary artists and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #womensart

Illustrations from 'The Lost Words'(2017) by artist/author Jackie Morris who created the book in collaboration with Robert Macfarlane #Womensart #IllustratorArtWeek 🖊

Charles Schultz and the original Snoopy, 1950s

A 10th Century AD, Mammen Axe, a highly decorative iron axe head inlaid with silver and gold, discovered in Denmark. It was found in a wealthy warrior's grave in Mammen, Jutland, dating to around 970–971 AD. The intricate engravings feature a tree motif, possibly symbolizing the Christian Tree of Life or the pagan Yggdrasil, on one side, and a mythical beast on the other. The axe is considered a luxury item and a symbol of status or power, likely owned by a chieftain rather than used for combat. The unique ornamentation is so distinct it established the "Mammen style" of Viking art, characterized by naturalistic animal bodies combined with spiral hip joints. National Museum of Denmark #archaeohistories

Sandra Apperloo, contemporary potter (aka The Pottery Parade) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

The Howling Spark

The legend is true

Scent bottle. Place of origin: Bohemia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia. Date: ca. 1830. Medium: Glass.

Interdimensional Spell #travelingwitch

Coal Tit and Mountain Ash.

“The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the Winter comes in, there is Hope and there is Light." - Seamus Heaney (art: Jo Grundy Artist)

“Truly beautiful is what makes a person better.” (Anne-Louise Germaine Necker)

Crows at Sunset, by Ogata Gekko, 1890-1910