Daniela Stehlik

And here is Emmeline looking over the centre of modern Manchester my 📷

YouTube video by Charles Cornell The Lord of the Rings is a MASTERCLASS in Theme Writing

#Music #LoTR

Old-fashioned horsepower breaks record, delights crowd Scores of heavy horses have been harnessed together at a heritage festival in southern New South Wales in what organisers say is a world record.

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I 🥰 The Luminaries

Elegant woman, brown hair, low cut black gown, standing and looking off to the side

same as previous painting, except that both straps are in place

JS Sargent was obsessed with depicting Virginie Gautreau ~ here’s his ‘Portrait of Madame X’, as exhibited in 1884, with (gasp!) a suggestively slipped shoulder strap. The hysterical outrage over this affront to decency led Sargent to add a more decorous strap (at R)

An old time-y illustration of a Horses.

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate horses. #JacobinDay

More information on horses

30C warming above South Pole flips Australia's spring weather forecast Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

e-petitions e-petitions

I have made petition to Australian #Parliament seeking #Referendum to add Preamble to #Constitution setting out our national values. Need your support. Please click below, read preamble & sign. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/.... Need at least 1000 signatures covering all States. Thanks for your help.

I agree Philip .. we are losing our horse paddocks at an alarming rate .. no replacements planned … what then… The Bush Capital no more?

Photo of a sunrises and a waxing crescent moonrise over Mt Ainslie, Canberra

Sunrise / moonrise all in the one shot here in #canberra this morning.

Bodes well for a happy Friday!

Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now We want to hear which Australian birds you think should be shortlisted for the Guardian/Birdlife Australia bird of the year poll next month

It's that time again! #birdoftheyear poll 🥳 Nominations for the top 50 shortlist are open now. Make sure your favourite bird makes it to this year's poll!
Voting starts 6 October www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tuning up for this year's National Vintage Guitar Expo | Region Canberra You can't keep a good guitar (or player) down, and so returns the annual National Vintage Guitar Expo to the…

#vintage #guitars in # Canberra

Another stupendous Southern Ocean low (939 hPa) between Australia and Antarctica. Spring is conducive because of the heightened contrast between polar and midlatitude air masses - and higher sun elevation makes for great (visible) satellite imagery!

fractured, distorted and crowded black- and-white work roughly resembling las meninas

300 years after Velázquez painted Las Meninas (“Maids of Honour”), Picasso, a long term admirer of the work, created his own version (1957). He would ultimately produce over 50 versions of the same painting

Get out of the way Kung-fu Panda, it's time for Bojutsu Capybara.

Spirit animal 🥰

Also a sign of #Spring here in the Bush Capital

Bronzed Griffins to stand by the lake and survey their creation | Region Canberra Marion and Walter should be looking out over their handiwork by this time next year. The National Capital Authority (NCA)…

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This Danish ad made the best use of Vikings and comedy to share an important safety message.
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A rabbit baking bread. Lansdowne MS451, c.1400.

Daily maximum temperature anomaly across Australia during winter 2025.

Daily minimum temperature anomaly across Australia during winter 2025.

Daytime temperatures were within 1°C of normal across most of Australia during winter 2025 as a whole, while nighttime temperatures were more varied.

Teapot witj spout to the left created with patterned material with flower motifs in pinks and purple on a greenish background

Textile artist Sue Trevor, handmade machine stitched textile teapot #UnravellingWomensArt

A photo of snow dusting the Brindabellas the mountains which border Canberra to our west

#snow on the Brindabellas #Canberra last of #winter

Major winter storm to deliver snow near five capitals An intense polar outbreak will bring one of the most widespread snow events in years to south-east Australia during the next 24 hours.

An intense polar outbreak will bring one of the most widespread snow events in years to south-east Australia during the next 24 hours.

Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born #OTD 1724. National Gallery

Whistlejacket: acclaimed 18th Century thoroughbred racehorse, owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham & mentioned in Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer; powerful life-size painting c. 1762 by George Stubbs, preeminent English equine artist, born #OTD 1724.
National Gallery

A meridional ↕️ upper pattern will direct two polar air masses towards Australia this week - the first being over WA on Monday. Close proximity between the cold air and the increasingly warm air to the north will necessarily bring wind.

Michel Foucault - celiac mouthful

Wind turbine trial sparks hope as small-scale power source A small-scale wind turbine has been developed in Adelaide in the hope of supplying energy direct to off-grid users, including farms, wineries and construction sites.

A small-scale wind turbine has been developed in Adelaide in the hope of supplying energy direct to off-grid users, including farms, wineries and construction sites.

If you like humour try Alpha Males from Spain (shot in Madrid) hilarious and recommended 3 seasons

Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt