Traditionally the collective nouns for ghosts are an ambush, a stare, a whispering. In the county a risk of ghosts, a procession of ghosts and an unsettling of ghosts are common as are a nagging of ghosts and a disturbance of ghosts.
Welcome to #BookologyThursday 🍃
Good morning, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SongBirds any songbird and the alternative is #PerfectlyPerched any bird perched. I’ve went with a Song Thrush. Wishing you all good luck and a great day ahead. #birds #photography #ECK
New gosling in the class of 2026 has arrived. I need to get out and see what else has appeared on land that is wet or Wetlands Have a grand day all.
#UKWildlife #Gosling #Birds #WildlifePhotography #Ornithology #NaturePhotography #Photography
Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart
Wrought iron & brass gates - 1862-65
Designer - Bruce James Talbert
Made by Skidmores Art Manufactures, Coventry, England.
Now National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
#IronworkThursday
#MetalworkThursday
The late Anglo-Saxon west doorway at Holy Trinity Church in Colchester. Dating to the mid-11th century, the doorway incorporates re-used Roman bricks. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #Colchester #AngloSaxon
This marvellous head of a drunken old woman is associated with the cult of Dionysus, god of wine, indicated by the ivy wreath on her head. 🍷
Dating to the Hellenistic period.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
📷 me
🏺 #Archaeology
Some villages hold their hurts with fearsome grip. Stones leak stories, shadows are spirit-stalked. A visitor may find them picturesque, but the resident knows them as harsh haunted. Mortwell is such a village. It is a risk of ghosts. – #CJosiffe
"Passing the drawbridge we turn to the right, and follow the road over the steep Gothic bridge, westward, to reach the deserted village and ruined castle of Karnstein."
(Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla")
🎨Ana Juan
#bookologythursday #booksky #bookillustration
Goodnight from Weychester Morris, where a record number of injuries have been sustained practising the Leaping Devil stick dance. Goodnight from Felix Draper, rubbing his finger around a glass of apple brandy to produce the tone that summons the Krath Malgav. Goodnight from Hookland.
Bowl, 1985 by Ann Wolff, glass artist based in Sweden and Germany, who explores the lives of women in her work #WomensArt
Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876-1923)
Dutch painter who specialized in semi abstract landscapes
#WomensArt
Goodnight.
The Pond, Bill Crisafi.
By Bassenthwaite this afternoon - and of course there was a host of golden...💛 #Cumbria #EastCoastKin #nature #photography
Owl. book of hours, Hainaut ca. 1450-60. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.267, fol. 179v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
The witch feels the land's waking. Feels the greening of her soul. Her sorceries grow, her sorceries bloom. A thousand new feral songs swim her blood. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
#ghostsigns #Glasgow
Love a ghost sign. Diverted walk down Mitchell Lane in a subdued Glasgow city centre.
Looked up saw this
"I built a strong wall that cannot be shaken, with bitumen and baked bricks... I laid its foundation on the breast of the netherworld, and I built its top as high as a mountain." - Nebuchadnezzar II
So says this Babylonian clay cylinder (604-562 BCE), inscribed with cuneiform. 🏺 1/
#MetMuseum 📸 me
"Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old
The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago and kept in a chest ever since"
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Yesterday's walk through the backstreets of #Llandudno offered lots of #photo opportunities. I do love a moody #Noir shot, with lots of long shadows. #photography
The Talking Roman Cow Of The 5th Century BCE
thehistorianshut.com/2019/11/25/t...
#history
"Shall I abandon, O King of mysteries, the soft comforts of home?
Shall I turn my back on my native land, and turn my face towards the sea?"
(St Brendan's prayer)
🎨 Kathleen Neely
#wyrdwednesday
Late Roman Burials Analyzed in Southern England. #Archaeology
archaeology.org/news/2026/03...
#BadenWürttemberg hat weiter bundesweit die meisten Exzellenzuniversitäten: #Tübingen, #Karlsruhe und #Heidelberg dürfen ihren Titel mindestens bis 2033 tragen. Mehr: mwk-bw.de/4hs7 #exzellenz #wissenschaft #forschung @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @kit.edu @unituebingen.bsky.social
The reptiles are back. This one was sunning itself looking slightly offended by my camera lens.
#UKWildlife #Turtle #TurtleTuesday #Reptile #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Nature #Sonyalpha
Bird collage by Lisa Morales, textile and mixed media artist #womensart
The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart
Contemporary embroidery artist Emily Tull #Womensart
