Nymeria

Night night sweet dreamies

It might feel as though everything is coming undone right now, but try to gather the pieces of yourself with care
Sometimes life shifts and breaks so it can rebuild itself into something stronger, steadier, and more you than before

Beautiful double reflection in this still life of bread & wine by Isaack Luttichuys, whose day is today. Save this wine, you will need it later.

entrance change alley near bank, london. small dark covered alley through stone buildings. a man in dark clothes walks off to the right

change alley
📷minolta xd/mc rokkor 58mm f1.2
🎞️kodak tri-x/kodak d-76/push 1
city of london

#filmphotography #streetphotography

A metal token engraved with an image of top half of a man leaping from a pile of rocks

Heavy metal rock nativity: a Roman period silver token found at St Albans depicting the god Mithras being born, leaping fully formed from a rock. 🏺 #AncientBluesky

Five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky. At upper left, a spiral galaxy is tilted, appearing wider than it is tall. It has a glowing yellow-white center and brown dust trails that spiral clockwise around it. Above the center is a large elliptical galaxy. Its round, glowing yellow-white center is surrounded by a fuzzy halo that fades away from the core. Toward the bottom right are three galaxies that appear to touch. The largest is in the center: a nearly vertical, edge-on spiral galaxy. Its glowing yellow-white core is mostly obscured by reddish-brown dust trails dotted with blue stars. To its bottom left is a smaller, tilted spiral galaxy with a glowing white center. Brown dust trails are dotted with blue stars. One spiral arm appears to touch the vertical galaxy to its right. At the spiral’s bottom right is a lenticular galaxy with a glowing central core in the middle of a hazy white disk, appearing almost face-on. It seems to touch the large spiral galaxy above it.

Hubble image of Arp 321, also known as Hickson 40.

This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Judy Schmidt
Source

Inside of an old barn with it's skeleton showing across the ceiling and walls. There is light coming in the slats and windows.

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

Inside the old barn

Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...

Very cool radioactive fungus news

From @chelleraiser.bsky.social

www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fu...

Amber sunset over Hollygrove lake with reflection of birds flying over and tree line on the horizon with reeds in the foreground.

Sunset Ireland - Amber sunset at Hollygrove lake with birds reflected in the water, Galway, Ireland #Sunset #Reflections #Birds #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography #TimeLapse

A close-up portrait of a young vixen approaching me with curiosity from the shadows beneath a large beech tree. The background is dark brown shadow in the top half, graduating to light browns and bright russet colours in the leaf litter around Star's feet. It's mid afternoon and the sun is low, sending golden light across the parts of the gardens that it can reach. I was sitting at the edge of the path when Star decided that she needed to come a bit too close so she could examine me properly! The light that caught her face, mostly the left side as we look at her, was simply gorgeous, highlighting her rich winter coat that blends perfectly with the russet coloured leaves around her on the ground. She and the leaves are aglow like a warm fireside. Even as I took several photos of her I was warning her that she was a bit too close, encouraging her to back away a bit. It was one of those moments where as a wildlife photographer you're caught between the desire to capture the beautiful light on your subject, with the concern to keep your subjects safe and wild by discouraging them from getting too close to people. She looks wary and alert because I'm discouraging her while shooting the scene with the camera low, composing through the LCD tilt screen. She did move to a more appropriate distance after this and settled down near another beech tree trunk. Star has earned her name from a small star-shaped white patch on her chest, just above her front legs. Her chest and underneath her body are quite a dark grey, almost totally black in places. This extends down her tail. There are white accents on her muzzle, the edge of her ears, the joints of her legs and a brighter white tip to her tail. The rest of her coat is a rusty-orange, peppered with grey. In this image only her head and one front leg and haunch are visible.

Come Into The Light #ShareMondays2025 #FoxOfTheDay

The young #vixen known as Star was shining bright as she came into the afternoon light from under a #beech #tree 🦊🍂 #wildlife #nature #redfox #mammals @rbgkew.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social #fujifilm_uk

Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud - NASA The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented

Sagittarius B2 Molecular Cloud
www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

North Falls - Silver Falls SP - Oregon

#Photography #Photo #Photograph

Savage's Glass Frogs 🐸 live in the cloud #forests of #Colombia 🇨🇴 and face threats from the #pet trade and #agriculture. Their see-through skin protects them from predators. Help them survive and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-a8R

Morning, Going to Work - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14895

Cartoon. Setting: A kitchen in a southwestern US cabin. Desert scenery visible through windows. A scruffy looking female coyote woman is stirring the contents of a large pot. Voice balloon: "No roadrunner meat, huh? Big shocker. Guess I'll be cooking beans and rice again." A squashed (accordion style) Wile E. Coyote walks into the kitchen. Though balloon: "Shut up, woman."

The sad thing is that Wile E. is an obsessed creep who never married.

Please don't be tempted. You can't fix him.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian (1593-1653), Portrait of a Seated Lady (Señora Caterina Savelli?), c. 1625, oil on canvas, 128.3 x 95.9 cm, private collection

Garden ornament of the sculpted face of Bacchus. There is grapevine below the left eye and down the side of the face. There are leafs instead of hair. Against a plain white background

#MinimalMonday #ArtYear

St Peter's Square Manchester yesterday. Looking directly towards the curved Central Library. A cream bricked building with tall arched windows on the lower floor and tall rectangular windows above. It was late in the afternoon and the light from inside was giving the wind golden glow. To the right of the photo is an old red telephone box with multiple glass panels on each side. A man is walking across the square towards library walk

#10minutesfromhome #Alphabetchallenge #WeekQForWindows
Windows all around yesterday at St Peter's Square Manchester

Street Art in Little Portugal in Montreal…

Trees by the Water

Trees by the Water, 1900
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13394

😂

Links: Pius II. Rechts: Illustration aus einem Buch; ein Paar in einem Bett.

Pius II. war von 1458 bis 1464 Papst. Vorher war er als Schriftsteller tätig und schrieb u.a. einen erotischen Liebesroman (“Historia de duobus amantibus”) über die Beziehung zwischen einem Diener und einer verheirateten Frau. 😳⛪️

Dawn in the Utah desert 🏜️
#utah

Bijoux, a void ( blackcat), with green eyes, sitting in the bottom bureau drawer where warm kitty mats are stored. She is sitting/laying in broadloaf position

Bijoux has the right idea
Stay in the warming drawer to help the loaf rise😜
#cats #mondayloaf #hedgewatch #warmandcozy

Visible here is a small portion of the large Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237), centered on its central cluster of stars; NGC 2244. This large round nebula lies some 5000 light years away and can be found in the constellation Monoceros near Orion. In optical wide field images the entire nebula appears strikingly similar to the petals of a red rose, hence the name. The image is constructed from exposures in three very narrow (3nm) wavelength bands corresponding to the emission profiles of ionised Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulphur to form the resulting detailed and brightly coloured scene. The combined images in each filter were assigned to their natural colour channels using a PixelMath expression in PixInsight. This enables a synthetic 'natural' colour image to be created from the narrowband data. Several striking shapes can be seen here, many of which resemble animals of various kinds. In particular the figure of a leaping Cheetah is very obvious near the centre. These dark shapes are denser clouds of dust and gas, slowly being eroded away by the intense ultraviolet radiation from the young stars in the central cluster. These stars have themselves condensed out of the nebula relatively recently. The brightest cluster members, HD 46223 and HD 46150, are massive O-type stars with stellar winds and radiation powerful enough to have cleared the nebula's central cavity around the cluster. Image details: Date: 15th, 16th, 18th and 19th March 2017 Exposure: Ha OIII SII: 290:130:110 mins, t...

Close-up with the Rosette Nebula (RGB Colour) - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/UYaQwE

#StreetArt

"LES RÊVEURS DE DEMAIN"
by Eskat

in #Limay, #France

Unknown photographer. Black & white photograph of a woman stood surrounded by high, deep snow in front of her terrace house. The path has been cleared & she’s smiling at the camera wrapped in a big overcoat & hat holding her shopping bag. Possibly taken in the early 1970’s Bradford.

Hello December!

#PinchPunch