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Lynne S

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Books and tea. Curiouser and curiouser. Cats 🐈

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

I hold my breath until you creak to life,
Balled hedgehog,
Small and cross.

By Candlelight / Sylvia Plath

Carl Whitfield #bookwormsat

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · 16h

Symphony (1920)
by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 5h

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 18h

‘Hera has sent us a pilot; let us follow the cunning bird’

How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis

Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales
1898 #wyrdwednesday

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David Partington @davidpartington.bsky.social · 3d

'La Belle Dame sans Merci,' by Frank Dicksee, 1902

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 2d

(N)Evermore: Remembering the immortal Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his death in 1849. Few authors have had such cultural and literary longevity. (illustration by Charles Addams)

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson

A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 3d

#OwlishMonday

🎨Bryan Holland

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 9d

#Owlishmonday Barn Owl at Dusk, Julien Friers.

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

The torrent roar'd,

Julius Caesar
I, 2

Andreas Achenbach #ShakespeareSunday

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

Snow Cat

Enikő Eged

#caturday

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

Snow Cat

Enikő Eged

#caturday

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 4d

I hold my breath until you creak to life,
Balled hedgehog,
Small and cross.

By Candlelight / Sylvia Plath

Carl Whitfield #bookwormsat

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Whatters2 @whatters2.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #Caturday

🎨 Dianne Woods

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5d

'In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright'
-Walter de la Mare

🎨Lucy Grossmith
#BookWormSat

Artwork of a hare running across a field. Night sky. Stars.

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Alexandre Henri @henrialexandre.bsky.social · 6d

Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865-1915)
Monastery, San Lazzaro, 1907.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 5d

Self-portrait, Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron, 1672
Painter, poet, musician, artist, and academicienne.
Born in Paris, #otd 3 Oct 1648, died there 3 Sept 1711

(Musée du Louvre)

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the surviving frescoes from the House of Livia, the wife of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill in Rome. The frescoes date to around 30 BC. 📷 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome

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Kettle Kittenstrudel @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 9d

Barbara Winrow, Apple Tree, acrylic on canvas, n.d.

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 6d

A flower among the flowers
1870

Nicolae Grigorescu
Romania

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 10d

‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; (…)
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, …’
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
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Blue Hyacinth, c. 1937
Oil painting by Tove Jansson