violets from mars

Edwin Austin Abbey, "The Passage of the Hours" (1909-1911)

Desert marigold (Asteraceae: Baileya multiradiata) can be found throughout much of the southwest US. Although it can survive drought conditions, this perennial is capable of growing quickly in the presence of some water. North of Las Vegas, Nevada, 07 Apr 2013.

Desert marigold (Asteraceae: Baileya multiradiata) can be found throughout much of the southwest US. Although it can survive drought conditions, this perennial is capable of growing quickly in the presence of some water. North of Las Vegas, Nevada, 07 Apr 2013.

Desert marigold (Asteraceae: Baileya multiradiata) can be found throughout much of the southwest US. Although it can survive drought conditions, this perennial is capable of growing quickly in the presence of some water. North of Las Vegas, Nevada, 07 Apr 2013.

Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa) © Clive Burrows

Iberian Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides feisthamelii) © Jon Dunn

Good morning and welcome to a new week!

Our featured tour this week is Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees, a true feast for the butterfly senses with a large range of spectacular species to be seen in glorious countryside during the holiday. (1/2)

mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Adult cabbage white butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pieris rapae) take nectar from a variety of flowers, but their green caterpillar larvae are significant pests of cabbage and other crucifers. Blissfield Michigan, 19 Apr 2025.

Adult cabbage white butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pieris rapae) take nectar from a variety of flowers, but their green caterpillar larvae are significant pests of cabbage and other crucifers. Blissfield Michigan, 19 Apr 2025.

Great blue heron in Rockefeller State Park Preserve

#birdsky #herons #waterbirds

A black cat lounges on a red embroidered pillow, licking his paw.

Have a beautiful day ✨

#catsky #blackcats

Gremlin cats are the best. Mine goes after seitan, too 😹

Wood carved lion sculpture

Porcelain lioness sculpture

Porcelain lion sculpture

Wood carved lion on a door, holding the door knocker in his mouth

Lions of the day

#lionsky #lions #metmuseum

Ooh, it does! 🐦🧣

“Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself... I feel like we are nearing to the end of the times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves…”
- Hiyao Miyazaki on Artificial Intelligence

A black and white pigeon stands beside pavement steps

A pretty pigeon in the park

#pigeons #pigeonsky #pigeonportraits

Thank you for the inspiration! ☁️

Thank you!!

Thank you!

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them,—ding-dong, bell.

Day 2: Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you. Share a poem a day in no particular order. #PoemSky #20Poems #PoetryChallenge

a sky without birds

first there is silence.
light ceases to bend
clouds grow heavy
stars sigh
and insects with iridescent wings
cover the earth

#BSPP21 #PoetrySky

Cruel beaks devour him again.

#7SyllableSentence scream

eyes as oracles
wings as half-furled flowers
froglike
tigerlike
breathless
soft acrobats unfold

#SenseWrds 52

Thank you! ✨

many suns have passed
since we fell to earth.
grass becomes cold
light shivers around dry leaves
and I forget what it was like
to be armorless

#sensewrds 55

💕🐈💕

A black cat sits on a gold notebook and looks up with big yellow eyes

Good morning

#catsky #blackcats

Oh that sounds wonderful! I can only imagine!

🧀😻🧀

A black cat looks up at the camera imploringly.

My cat begs shamelessly for vegan cheese

#catsky #catsofbluesky #blackcats

Black Swallowtail

#AColorADayPrill #Black #Inverts #Butterflies
Black Swallowtail

How lovely!!

her words
wrapped around me
while the others slept
i walked on air
wondered in the grass
under violet clouds
imagined i was a girl from a story
oblivious to the danger

#SenseWrds Prompt 54

Alchemical illustration featuring the sun, the moon, a lion, a peacock, a crowned figure, and a devil with a mouth of fire...

Illustration from the Thesaurus of Alchemy, ca. 1725

#occultsky #alchemy #esoterica

Day 1: Sappho fragment translated by Anne Carson

Choose 20 Poems that have stayed with you or influenced you. Share a poem a day in no particular order. #PoemSky #20Poems #PoetryChallenge