Paula Bauer

Romans used glass for crockery, hairpins, windows, and more. Glassblowing made production fast and cheap, and constant recycling is why Roman glass can feel rare today. What draws your eye here - colour or creativity?

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An advert for Thame Art Crawl in Oxfordshire. https://thameartcrawl.co.uk

One week to go for Thame Art Crawl. Three images of mine will be on display in Mint Velvet. Come and have a look if you can.

For Monday motivation we're sharing some autumnal views at Kilnsey 🍂 Have a great week.

📸 Wendy McDonnell | #Kilnsey #YorkshireDales #MondayMotivation

Check out The Cambridge Murder Mysteries at charlotking.com (all photos my own)

See their website at york-unlocked.org.uk

A curious manatee with a few scars takes the time to gingerly turn around the corals before navigating off through an uncertain life of ever present danger #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #ginger #scar #makewayformanatees #manateezone #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Station Hall | National Railway Museum Explore a century of railway life in Station Hall, a former goods shed now home to our inspiring collection.

This Friday the restored and reimagined space Station Hall at the NRM reopens. Built in the 1870s, Station Hall was once home to York’s main goods station and was a working railway right up until the 1960s. Explore a century of railway history www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/sta...

My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Artwork featuring a silhouette of a hare standing on a round large rock in a rural windswept landscape with slopes and wild sky

Katherine Soutar, contemporary English artist and illustrator, known especially for her interpretation of folk tales and folklore #womensart

#FolkloreThursday

Steve is doing garden shenanigans today.

A wind-carved rock in the sands of the rim of Jezero Crater.

Mars Perseverance Raw Image of the Week

This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 240 (Sept. 14 - 20, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... #Mars 🧪🔭

photos of green twisted branches in a wood, a fox looking alert, a bright green lacewing bug against a red background, two oystercatchers, one on a post, one landing, two kingfishers fighting, an ant with some aphids

Photo comp! Send us your entries. The theme is Our Nature Reserves & we're looking for 12 striking images that showcase the wild beauty of our nature reserves.
Here's fab inspiration from previous years from
📷 R French, P Boyland, S Stones, MJ Vickers, A Owen & J Lauper
More here buff.ly/M0y20Fq

CAT ADVISORY: Today is the first day of Autumn in the northern hemisphere. Ensure your human servants procure extra snacks to see you through until the Spring, then eat them all this weekend.

My painting AUTUMN CORNFIELD

Timeline Cleanse

A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

Artwork created by paper folding and cut-outs resembling two birds, one light, one dark, among autumn coloured plants

UK artist Helen Musselwhite combines hand cutting, folding and scoring paper and card to create her artworks, which are often inspired by nature #WomensArt #Autumn

An older woman's face is seen next to a blurred clock.

Public #Libraries like Essex are working to become 'dementia friendly' spaces. Those living with dementia can get a special library card that incurs no charges for late returns.

See what support your local #Library offers this
#WorldAlzheimersMonth.

libraries.essex.gov.uk/digital-cont...

Have you ever wondered what it look like on top of a giant iceberg?
Well, it looks a little bit like that 😃.
Captured with a drone above the Icefjord in Ilulissat, Greenland.

Happy Caturday blue sky people! Hope you have a good weekend. Here's Lola demonstrating how to stare out at the back yard for some cheap entertainment.
#Cats #Caturday

Girl reading by candlelight while leaning on a table Guido Reni, undated (b. 4 Nov 1575 - d. 18 Aug 1642 Bologna)

Albertina, Vienna

Susie is one of the kindest & cleverest people I’ve ever met, and her live shows are so enjoyable for word lovers — I highly recommend getting a ticket to see her! 👇

In this 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic, mallard ducks and purple swamphens fossick for snails (Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome; photo HEN-Magonza)

Medieval Berwick-upon-Tweed was in a state of termoil in the medieval period, changing hands from English to Scottish rule several times.

This resulted in locally made coins

Here we find one on this day 17th Sept 2021

A penny of Edward I, minted at Berwick. AD 1300-1310

Tortoise/Turtle (order Testudines): Shells of many species of turtles and tortoises are intricately marked and coloured, yet are incredibly perfectly designed by nature to blend precisely with their natural habitats. Superb photos taken by Casey Leone. Top row, from left to right:
#turtle #turtles

Sometimes, homely objects from the past are far more evocative than possessions of the powerful rich ~ here, from Egypt 1,400 years ago, this design on a child’s linen tunic, woven with pink, blue & green ducks, flower petals & central animal face collections.mfa.org/objects/70038

Fountains Mill, or Abbey Mill, was built in the 1130s–40s to grind corn for Fountains Abbey, and is among the oldest Cistercian mills to survive.

Fountains Mill, or Abbey Mill, was built in the 1130s–40s to grind corn for Fountains Abbey, and is among the oldest Cistercian mills to survive. Rebuilt in the 1150s with twin wheels and later extended with an upper-storey granary, it continued working after

The beams are low and Alan keeps forgetting.

I just find everything feels a bit better when I watch this.