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Beautiful!

Agree. This was such a great show.

Oil painting of small flower stand with light blue umbrella between two houses or small buildings. White sky above. Hint of green grass in background. Soft colors and richly textured. Elga Sesemann (1922-2007) Flower saleswoman, Kukkaismyyijä. Oil on board, 53 x 42 cm, 1946. At Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. https://www.elgasesemann.com/en/a1940-tal/

Flower saleswoman, Kukkaismyyijä, by Finnish painter Elga Sesemann (1922-2007)
Oil on board, 53 x 42 cm, 1946.
At Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki

Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂

Snow-covered street, view down sidewalk curved staircases on left, cars on right, all snow covered

City snowfall isn't best for driving, but streets in Montreal look pretty tonight. #Montreal #Snow #Winter #photography Literally #streetphotography 🤓

Happy Birthday! 🎂

So cool. Love it.

Drawing of cafe exterior on city street.

I’m learning to draw & watercolor, slowly … love the process. This was the first part I did of a YouTube tutorial from @tobysketchloose.bsky.social.
My watercoloring later was a sort of disaster but it’s all good anyway. #urbansketching

So nice. A beautiful, quiet scene with such a sense of energy to it.

lovely painting.

Moment of Zen. Beautiful.

A stylized collagelike representation of a figure, seen from behind - a representation of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - arms outspreadd, between two groups of silhouetted figures at left and right. A hilly landscape is in the background, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

Thanks!

Cover, North Woods by Daniel Mason. Illustration of large brown wild cat (cougar) lying in grassy meadow.

A good day is your library hold coming in just ahead of a semi-free weekend. Been wanting to read this for a while.
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The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Here’s one of my favourite Christmas paintings. It’s by German artist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) & was painted circa 1912. Here’s hoping you, your family & your friends have a mellow Christmas break & a lucky new year!

Good Day!
Primrose Hill by David Gentleman 2009
Watercolour

Cover for short story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury. Scene shows African Savannah with golden grasses and low dark green trees in front and dark mountain behind. On the right edge, halfway down the cover and embedded in the image is a small brass doorknob.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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10/20

Cover of The Scarlet Plague by Jack London. Burgundy background with small distant ruined city in background.

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9/20

Cover of West with the Night by Beryl Markham. Blue and white clouds in background. Brown old-fashioned aviator googles in center of image; old propeller fixed wing airplanes are reflected in google lenses. At bottom is quote from Ernest Hemingway: “[Markham] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers. … it really is a bloody wonderful ok.”

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Day 8/20

Book cover shows hilltop with golden valley below. A man in blue overalls and brown hat, woman sitting in red dress and apron, and boy in brown overalls sitting on rock are in foreground facing away from viewers. They’re looking down into the valley. In mid ground below them is a 1930s open sided truck with luggage/bundles of cloth tied on back. In the background is a line of similar trucks snaking through valley. Beyond are a line of tall blue colored hills.

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Day 7/20

My Antonia by Willa Cather. Illustration of young woman in light blue dress and white apron standing in prairie field with horse and buggy behind her. She’s holding a handful of yellow flowers.

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No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
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Day 6/20

This is a fantastic book - the kind you can dig into again and again (despite its brevity). The lessons go deep. Thanks for reminding me of it — another re-read for the holidays!

Thanks! I’m going to re-read this over the holidays.

It’s so good!

Book is Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Photo shows African-American woman in black shirt silhouetted against a night sky. She holds her hands apart at shoulders width. A tennis-ball sized replica of the earth is hovering in the air in between her hands. Her eyes are closed.

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No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
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Day 5/20

Book is Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Cover shows black hooded figure surrounded by a circular swirl comprised of gold lines and dark green medieval buildings.

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No reviews.
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Day 4/20

Adding this to my TBR list!

Book cover of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Cover shows English butler standing at window looking out.

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3/20

Boom title is Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Image shows boy in overalls holding lantern high while surrounded by forest at night. In front of him are two brown dogs.

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2/20