Jess Jackson

Vintage Halloween card BEWARE! THE TIME IS HERE IN WHICH THE WITCHES DO APPEAR. A woman with blonde hair in a blue dress peers around a grandfather clock with ALL HALLOWEEN as the numbers on the clock and a pumpkin as the pendulum. Also a black cat leans around the other side of the clock with the shadow of a witch.

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

A figure in a white toga passes through a dark, autumnal scene, possibly a graveyard, and heads for a large doorway set in stone.

Orpheus, entering the underworld in order to bring Eurydice back to the world of the living.

#WyrdWednesday

🎨 - 'Orpheus Enters the Gate to Hades' by Taylor Miles Lockett

Fox’s head painting on dark brown painting.

Renard the Fox, Philip Reinagle.

I am a silly goblin and you can be one too

Vintage Halloween card ‘May LUCK AND LOVE MEET you on ALL HALLOWE’EN’ Witch with broom in pumpkin hot air balloon flying over bats flying over a silhouette of a town, a black cat rides on top of the pumpkin.

🎃 #31daysofhalloween #Gothtober

Three ethereal, pale women are shown in the upper part of the image, seemingly fleeing or flying through a forest. The central figure has long, dark hair and a startled expression, while a second blonde-haired figure is visible to the left. Below the women, three black wolves with glowing green eyes emerge from the trees. Ferns can be seen at the base of the trees. The piece is a watercolor, pencil, and ink on paper

Goodnight.
Three Women and Three Wolves, Grasset, 1892. #Gothtober

Russula sp. surrounded by the extremely poisonous Inocybe geophylla - White Fibrecap. They’re popping up everywhere. #FungiFriends

Vivid purple the Amethyst Deceiver is a gorgeous mushroom however its bright amethyst coloration fades with age and weathering, it becomes difficult to identify, hence the common name "deceiver’.

Perfectly purple, Amethyst Deceivers, Laccaria amethystina are looking glorious in the woods! 💜
#FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Woodland animals in fairy tales often act as guides. Birds, rabbits, and squirrels help heroines gather food, sort seeds, or escape danger, turning the forest itself into an ally. #FolkloreSunday

Art: Paint and Pestle

Fox in woodland, autumnal setting with toadstools, painting.

Fox and Toadstools, Lucy Grossmith

Illustration of a large owl with bright yellow eyes at the centre. The owl is depicted with intricate feather details and a patterned body, standing on a small mound. It is set against a dark, starry night sky with a crescent moon and numerous stars. The background also includes slender, stylized trees with sparse foliage and smaller owls perched on their branches.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Arseniy Lapin

The upper half of a sitting fox facing left looking right created with small leaves in browns, orange and green all against a white background

#Fox by Helen Ahpornsiri, who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

Lulu the Long-tailed Tit. #birds #ukbirds #nature #wildlife #BirdOfTheDay

Photograph of a single raindrop, capturing the forest 2014 Photo taken by FallOut99 via Deviantart

Behold

Fall: “Serenity of Red Maple” color woodblock print https://moonlitseaprints.com/inventory/mls2021345-toshi-yoshida-toshi-yoshida-birds-of-the-seasons-set-of-four/

Spring: “Flying Around the Plum Tree” color woodblock print https://moonlitseaprints.com/inventory/mls2021345-toshi-yoshida-toshi-yoshida-birds-of-the-seasons-set-of-four/

Happy #AutumnEquinox / #SpringEquinox (I never forget my Southern Hemisphere friends!)
Tōshi Yoshida (吉田 遠志, Yoshida Tōshi, Japan, 1911-1995)
#Birds of the Seasons:
Fall: “Serenity of Red Maple” + Spring: “Flying Around the Plum Tree” (1977)
Color woodblock prints
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

A fall painting from a couple years back. I wanted to portray how absurdly bright autumn leaves look when lit by the sun
🍁🍂
8x10" oil painting

Wendell Berry - In the stillness of the trees I am home.
And this is a print and also a card now too :-)

Amanita muscaria - Fly Agaric. 🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Illustration by Edmund Dulac for Gerard d’Houville’s story “Le Papillon Rouge” (The Red Butterfly) publishes in the December 1909 issue of the French art magazine L’Illustration. It depicts a man in bed looking shocked as clouds of butterflies fly around him, resurrected from the specimen boxes strewn over the floor.

#WyrdWednesday 'The Entomologist's Dream' by Edmund Dulac (1909) depicts a man looking on as a kaleidoscope of resurrected butterflies escape the pins holding them in their specimen boxes and fill the air once again 🦋

Illustration of a black cat flying in a witch's hat that is drawn by bats.

How I arrive at the function

🎨 Maggie Vandewalle

A lone figure in a white dress is shown navigating a dark, narrow waterway in a small boat, using a long pole to propel it. The waterway is surrounded by a dense forest of tall, slender trees with bare branches. Numerous fallen leaves in shades of brown and orange cover the ground and float on the water's surface.

Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning.
🖼️ Driftwood, Adam Oehlers.

A fluffy Long-tailed Tit clings to the side of a tree trunk, its round body and long tail feathers giving it a puffball look. With its head tilted slightly and dark eyes fixed forward, it looks curious and almost as though it’s assessing your scroll.

Tiny visitor alert! A Long-tailed Tit is checking out your feed.

📷 James Gregory

Porcelain Fungus & Amethyst Deceivers for the win! 🍄📷 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

Moments in nature 🌻

Mycena haemotopus - Burgundydrop Bonnet aka Bleeding Fairy Helmet… and you can see why. #FungiFriends

Illustration of a fox facing right looking forward in a woodland with tall dark trees

Paula Mela, Finnish illustrator known for her fairytale-like works #WomensArt

Embroidery of a sitting fox facing forwards with head looking up tobthe left

Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart

A fox like creature with long pointy ears and a leafy tail stood in a puddle in a forest

A leafy fern fox 🍃🦊

Toad is buried under the covers in bed. From "Spring" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.

Morning… #FungiFriends