"It was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life."
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published on this day in 1818 🫀
The wren was sacred to the Druids, who used its complex songs for divination. The Irish name dreoilín and Welsh dryw both link the bird to the word for "Druid" or "seer".
Art my own.
#WrensDay #BirdOfTheDay #Folklore
Morning.
Bramblefinch, George Brookshaw.
Pastel still life, including a nice vase bought in a shop attached to an auction house, some ranunculus flowers, alstroemeria and an iris. The dried items on the right came from a bag of pot pourri. This was probably sold at a Cambridge Drawing Society exhibition.
#pastel #flowers
As I walked by a field, two old friends had decided to meet up at the Hare & Mistle...
#TobeinEnglandnowthatMarchisHere #Dorset
Today the biggest challenge facing writers is all the birds talking to you, speaking your name in extinct languages, words remembered only by magpies and stones and the old shadow that lives in the well.
More ice from above in a wonderful frozen glacial lagoon in #Iceland last week.
#DronePhotography #DJIMavic3Pro #AwesomeFoursome
Striding into spring with a side angle of my embroidery, Tree Spirit for you today. Completely freehand stitched in March 2022.
The bluebells are pushing through the Earth, and colour is starting to appear. Inspiration incoming… 🥰🪡🌱🌸🌼🌷 #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird
Colours of the ocean #Shetland
“Blossom Bath” by #Photographer Hoang Thu Hương
#photography #AwardWinningPhotography #nature
Of course there were horses :)
Stafafell, #Iceland
Large volumes of fresh moss being collected from the builders' merchant at the moment,
#Wrens #Nestbuildng #Nature
Meanwhile, down by the #weedypond the Robin is also gathering moss - what a wonderful building material this is.
Here we see that whilst a rolling stone can gather no moss,
a Robin gathering moss cannot take a drink...
#Robins #Nature #UKWildlife
@alan678.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
2/2 The Wren is often first on the scene.
Natural, undyed, jute twine, cut into 1 inch lengths & then pulsed in the food processor for a minute or so, is always the most popular item to fly off the shelves.
Chiffchaffs will quickly find feathers.
Great for kids to watch, look & learn about nature.
1/2 Who's nesting nearby?
It's always interesting to know which birds are nesting in you garden - it may give you a heads-up that a Robin or Wren may be nesting in your shed or cold frame for example.
I've just placed a container of jute string & moss by the kitchen window. I'll add some feathers...
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads...out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury #quote #writing www.goodreads.com/author/quote...
Layered Exposures and Low Light Create "Meditative Ghost #Trees by Ellen Jantzen" #photography
Link for more information on her technique and many more #photographs: mossandfog.com/ghost-trees/
This ancient monastery in northern Spain, at the foot of the Pyrenees, is located in a remote and mysterious place. It is said that Saint Lawrence hid the Holy Grail here in 258 a.d. so that it would not fall into Saracen hands. 1/3
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #folklore #horrorwriter
Not long until the scent of jasmine fills our neighborhood 😊
#flowers #photography #art
Decided to part with this one. An illustration I made when my mum was ill & one of the last she saw me make. A piece probably about grief, illness, sadness & departure so of course I called it ‘Don’t Look Meow’ 🤷🏼♂️
Image: 21 x 29.7cm
Original artwork: £350 plus P&P
Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com
Two years ago today 🌿
Lord Raven of Chetro Keti on his high spire above his kingdom
In The Chinese Mirror by H A Vachell (The Strand, 1921), a young couple insist on sleeping in a 'haunted room' no one has been able to stay in for more than one night - but won't say why. And so they learn its secret: the mirror cruelly reflects back your own darkest, deepest secret.
#PhantomsFriday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors
The Stadthaus, Bruges.
📷 #photography #travelphotography #Belgium
Love where you live, and honour your ancestors
Inside the witch is a library of feral spirits, a hundred books that need not be written for their knowledge is best told by tree root and hedge blossom. Her living practice is a curation of wonders and wild wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
Snow Scene: The Haunted House
by Georg Emil Libert, 1847
#PhantomsFriday
I learnt a new word today: graupel, a cross between snow and hail - tiny soft balls of snow! Graupel fell on the beach at Stokksnes last night, and the waves continued to come in and made nice squiggly patterns.
#Iceland
The Moon and the Yew Tree
Sylvia Plath
The moon over the lake
I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked door. The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~Joan Didion
🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas
