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Pots of the day
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Happy Solstice everyone
December 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Happy Beethoven's Birthday everyone
December 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This desert is so long, it can take a lifetime to go from one end to the other, and a childhood to cross it at its narrowest point.

- Ibn Khaldun
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Owl of the day: from Bosch's The Wayfarer
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
And today, thinking about what my life has been, I feel like some sort of animal that’s being carried in a basket under a curved arm between two suburban train stations . . . these baskets usually have two lids, like half ovals, that lift up at one end or the other should the animal squirm . . .
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sand of the Day: Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley, California.

Stovepipe Wells sand is brutal, cyclopean. I can barely fit it into my lens.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reposted by bhikku
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
We enter it. We come.
Our bodies cannot scale heaven except in a fume of burnt petrol.
As lords that are expected. Yet there is a silent joy in our arrival.
Years and years.
Long arpeggios of chafing wires.
The concentration of one's body in entering a loop.

- T.E. Lawrence
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sand of the Day: Thames foreshore nr. Marigold Alley, London. Lots of lovely quartz with a rich mix of other stones.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

- 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 Thomas Browne, 𝘜𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Epstein's work is no better than pornography.

- Walter Sickert
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
When Babylon has fallen, what then? What shards and fragments shall we rescue from its ruins, and what new temples shall we make from them? When evil has evaporated, what then shall we have to fight against? The world may seem an endless afternoon . . .

- Fernando Pessoa
November 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Old Cader [Idris] is a grand fellow, and shows himself off perfectly with every changing light."

- Darwin
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Cerrig Arthur, above the Mawddach Valley, Gwynedd. Diffwys in the background.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
On the night platform
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Good morning, Buddha
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The iron gatepost is the last remaining relic of the Pyrgo estate, Havering, Essex, where Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor spent a large part of their childhoods, an easy day's ride from London.
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Spending the day defragging my hard drive. Looking forward to those fast fast read speeds tomorrow.
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If you didn't fall in love with Diane Keaton the first time you saw the Uncle George story scene, your heart must've been made of stone . . .
DK 1946 - 2025
October 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Kashmir, 1980s
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Seated goddess with a child, gold, Hittite Empire, Central Anatolia c. 14th–13th century BCE
October 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Three rocks from the Chalbi Desert, Kenya
October 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Lalibela, Ethiopia
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Feed your head: listen to Spacemen 3's sensational 44-minute "Dreamweapon" while reading Will Carruthers' hilarious account of the creation of the piece:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA...

www.theguardian.com/music/2016/s...
Spacemen 3: 'A monkey could play one note. But could a stoned monkey?'
In an extract from his memoir, Spacemen 3 bassist Will Carruthers recalls one journey in search of the drone that bemused cinemagoers in Brentford
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM