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Senegal has won the Africa Cup of Nations in dramatic fashion.

Pape Gueye scored in extra time for the Teranga Lions to beat host Morocco 1-0 in a chaotic final which at one point saw Senegal’s players leave the field to protest a penalty decision. https://cnn.it/49GLXZ1

Mistle thrush in snow scene with apple partially eaten. Illustration.

Morning.
Mistle Thrush, Tunnicliffe

Bears on snowy hillside with trees and winding path against night sky with stars and birds. Illustration.

🖼️ Fiona Watson

Two legends the sun can’t defeat 🌞 there’s a print of this up on my store too!
danielvernon.bigcartel.com

“This piece is a handprinted limited edition fine art linocut print in blue. Handprinted in Cranfields oilbased ink onto cream/white BFK French Rives acid free archival paper. A whole other world under the waters of the ocean. This piece depicts the abundant life in our oceans just below the surface. Image size: 9” x 12” Paper size approximately: 12” x 14” This highly detailed relief print started as an original drawing which was transferred to a linoleum carving block and then the design was carved into the block, inked and hand pulled individually from the block. Because of the hand printing process, each print may have slight variations making each one of a kind and unique. Each print comes numbered, titled and signed in pencil on the front.”

#MonochromeMonday / #BlueMonday :
Meg Tannehill Justice (AL, USA)
Under the Sea, 2022
Linocut, image size: 9” x 12”
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#ContemporaryArt #WomenArtists

Male and female Merlin perched on snowy outcrop, painting.

Morning.
Merlins, John Leigh-Pemberton.

Frontispiece illustration by Abigail Larson for Macmillan's "Edgar Allan Poe Collection Jigsaw Sticker Book" inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works. The image shows a spooky pale-eyed raven perched on the top of a skull with a teal curtain backdrop.

"His eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming"

I have learned
that the pain of being unappreciated far outweighs the pain of letting go.

-Samuel Decker Thompson
#poetry

Live updates: Suspect identified in firefighter ambush that left 2 dead and 1 injured in Idaho | CNN Two people were fatally shot and others injured while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris.

JUST IN: Idaho authorities have identified the two firefighters killed and a third firefighter badly wounded in Sunday's ambush in Coeur d'Alene

What are we
Just a trace
A #scintilla
A small drop
In the ocean
Barely visible
Like a whisper
In darkness

Yet we are
A spark
Of hope
That echos
In time
A drop
That ripples
That changed
Everything

#vss365 #poetry #poem #whiting

#Nostagia
A form of amnesia
Memories we tell ourselves exist
More than a dream
Our past rewritten
So we can forget
The life we lived
Replaced with the
One’s we wished for
To cover the pain
When the truth
Is to hard to bear

Yearning for light
In Darkness

#vss365 #poetry #poem #writing

Chill winter's whisper,
Icy shrouds adorn the outside,
Inside, nurtured by heat.

#haiku esque

Swaying with the Wind

A little blue butterfly, dancing on a blade of grass in the wind. Fragile in form, strong in spirit. He sways, not breaks. Just like us.
#butterfly #macro #naturephotography #eveninglight #malioliPHOTOart

Bluebird on a branch, painting.

🖼️ Susan Fenimore Cooper, 1851.

close up of a very fuzzy, nearly hairy bee, on a white and pink wildflower sipping nector

sometime last summer
sometime next summer

A male Red-bellied Woodpecker waits along the nature trail for any fallen peanuts. Different Red-bellied Woodpeckers have different amounts of red on their face and chest. The Red-bellied that will hand-feed has some faint red stripes on his chest; this one does not hand-feed but will get close.

Sudan’s army accused of ethnic killings after recapturing strategic city Sudan’s army was welcomed after taking Wad Madani, but has been accused of carrying out reprisal attacks since then.

Last week, civilians welcomed #Sudan 's army as liberators when it retook the strategic city, Wad Madani.

But then, the army began summarily killing people it perceives to be RSF sympathisers based on their ethnicity.

My long read for @ajenglish.bsky.social

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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Jan. 25, 2025 Can you sort 8 historical events?

Can you place 8 notable events in chronological order? Test your knowledge with Flashback, our weekly history quiz.

Anthony Fauci Stripped of Government Security Protection Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who was one of the nation’s top health officials for decades, had received death threats during the coronavirus pandemic. He has hired his own security detail.

Breaking News: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s government-funded security detail was cut off by President Trump. He’s the latest prominent former official to lose protection since Trump's return to the White House.

Photo of coal tit perched on a mossy knoll.

Tit of the Day:
The Coal Tit
📷 Dominic Garcia-Hall

Hi, I'm new here, for my first introductory post, here is the picture of the Bubble Nebula from the Hubble Space Telescope.🔭

Goodnight everyone

Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852983

Papillons; Paris, Tolmer[ca. 1925] (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48852983) #nature #illustration #art

A warm brown bird on a mossy branch. It is standing in soft light with shadowy brush in the background.

Equatorial Antpitta 🪶
Zuraloma Birding, Nono, Ecuador
#ArtAdventCalendar

🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle

‘Trees are . . . miraculous’ Local group advocates for greater tree canopy – Tri-Cities Dispatch The trees at White Pine Beach. photo Jeremy Shepherd It’s a scorching hot summer day in 2021 when a group gathers at a cul-de-sac near Mundy Park. They

This is a great article.

How do we maintain affordable AND livable cities?

How do we ensure housing and also invest in our vital natural infrastructure.

#climatechange #conservation

🌲 🏠 🌲 🌲 🏫🌲🏢🌳

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Mama Mallard and her ducklings