Maria Strutz

Resharing for #WorldOctopusDay 🐙
#CephalopodAwarenessDays

oh, I'm glad to hear that! 🍄
I remember trying to fit the words to the song and it just didn't want to fit. Until it finally did. Amanita revelation 🤍🌿🍄

:) I have never seen one in the wild, would love to see them snuffling around. I love their claws as well 🐾

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badgers are very satisfying to draw I find. Also, apparently it is #Brocktober - Badger Month... 🖤🐾🤍

And thank you for that beautiful wish 🤍🌿🌀

2 badgers running towards each other, each badger reflected below, above and below the badgers crescent moons. There are stars above, and below the badgers, overall forming a figure 8. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz

In celebration of #NationalBadgerDay
'Under the Badger Moon' 🤍🌖🖤

what a beautiful illustration! 🦊🐾🌻
Ages ago I studied Theatre design (stage and costume); the final project was 'design for opera'. One of the operas was 'The Cunning Little Vixen'. Loved the opera, the design process, collaboration with the singers/ other students. Director was an a*** though

she did indeed 🪶

If you have not yet got one of your own...
bsky.app/profile/toms...

booklet with the title 'The latchless door, Rhymes & Songs of Hookland' leaning against a tree

Beautiful mail from Hookland, thank you very much! 🌿
The music and lyrics by @taliskimberley.bsky.social, the artwork by @tomsbrown.bsky.social and the foreword by @hookland.bsky.social all sing! 🌀

🧡 xxx 🧡

that's the one! Took me forever to figure that one out 🍄

a heartshaped leaf in bright autumn sunlight, on the left some red unripe blackberries

An #AccidentalHeart for @louisenorgate.bsky.social 🌿🌀🤍

:) 🍄🐾🍂
A few years ago you posted a puzzle (or was it a gif?) that boggled my mind forever around Amanita and the name of a famous song... 🍄🌖🌿

terrible pun but I love it...

Because he was a... fungi 🍄

🎨 Maurice Sendak. In this colour illustration, SharpEars stands among sunflowers under a full moon with the silhouette of a mature tree behind her

The story of "Vixen Bystrouška" - Vixen SharpEars, Bystrouška being a pun meaning both pointed (like a fox's ears) & also smart witted, was published as a feuilleton in 1920, with readers eager to read the next installment. It inspired a 1924 opera by Leoš Janácek that remains popular #BookWormSat

The Piper looks bemusedly at Water Rat and Mole.

‘‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. ‘Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet — and yet — O, Mole, I am afraid!’’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908) #BookWormSat

🎨Paul Bransom

I love the quote. And the artwork! 🤍🐾🌖

The poem is featured in 'A Secret History of Rhubarb' (Glasgow: Mariscat, 2004) Of her poem, Crowe writes: "I have tried always to keep faith with the creature itself, bearing in mind its behaviour in the wild as well as the mythic, magical values it has acquired in human consciousness over the millennia" 🎨 Linocut showing both stages of 'the run of the hare'. Brown hare on a grassy background. (1936–2022). Gillmor produced many natural history illustrations, among his other artistic works, over a long and successful career

"Light as the moon’s path over the sea
the run of the hare over the land"

Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares'
🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor

#BookWormSat
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The Tiger by Nael, age 6, from 'They're Singing a Song in The Rocket' The tiger He destroyed his cage Yes YES The tiger is out

Painting of a tiger in dense undergrowth by Brian Wildsmith https://www.brianwildsmith.com/wild-animals

Today's animal theme for #BookWormSat wouldn't be complete without Nael's classic poem 'The Tiger' 🐅

🎨 by Brian Wildsmith

haven't listened to that album for so long, I used to love it! Went to see the concert film several times when it came out

How beautiful!💜
Also: why did the mushroom go to the party? 🍄

And it's #UKFungusDay today

Painting of the elephant-headed Indian god Gaṇeśa by Maria Strutz.

New blog post - from the London Tantra Group wiki project.
The Gaṇeśa Upaniṣad, translated by the late Mike Magee, with explanatory footnotes by me. Gaṇeśa painting by @mariastrutz.bsky.social
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very auspicious omen 🤍

I love Richard Long! 🤍

crows are very definite in their alarm calls. Always worth checking out what they are cawing about 🌿

Crow on gravestone as seen through a rain bejewelled spiderweb.

I believe this is a winner in the #goth eye spy game - crow on gravestone as seen through a rain bejewelled spiderweb.