Rachel Deering

I’m glad. Rest well.

Yes!

Morning!

Yup. 🙄 Morning. 🩵🫖☔️

Ha ha

Ah you’re welcome!

Painting of March morning, tree with buds, trunk appears to be a woman reaching into the sky, snowscape, stony shore, lake with mountains behind, sky with clouds.

March morning, Nikolai Astrup, c.1920.

Stag on hillside, snowy mountains and forest in background, painting.

🖼️ Eugen Ludwig Hoess

White rabbit stood upright on blue background, painting.

🐇 #WhiteRabbit
🖼️ Frank S Guild

Depiction of March as a red haired woman in red gown planting seeds in a formal garden, there is a tree behind her surrounded by seating.

Wishing us all a magical March.
La Belle Jardiniere, March
Eugène Grasset.

Photo of winter wren. Description from ebird: ‘Tiny, short-tailed, plain-brown wren with a huge voice. Subtly patterned, with indistinct pale eyebrow and diffuse dark barring on flanks and wings. Constantly keeps tail cocked at an angle. Found in a variety of forested habitats, but always prefers wetter areas with thick tangles, often around treefalls and moss. Darker, smaller, and shorter-tailed than House Wren. Incredibly beautiful song is a long series of musical whistles and trills; an unmistakable and common sound in northern forests. Call is a dry, low "chimp" remarkably similar to Song Sparrow.’

Wren of the Day:
Winter wren
📷 Brad Imhoff

Gold cover with green border, green lettering, Hope and Rest, E Wetherell, The Lily Series, decoration of foliage and white flowers, scene at bottom of book of shore and landscape.

Book Cover of the Day:

Snow fox on grey background, painting.

Snow Fox, Catherine Hyde.

Painting of crow in flight over snowy field, crows landing and forest in background.

🖼️ Laura Makabresku

Starling perched on brick with foliage, tower ruin in background, illustration.

Morning.
Coloured starling wood engraving, J. W. Whimper, C19th, Wellcome Collection.

Yes.

Night T 🖤

Nos da.

Night x

Ah thank you! Doing really well, thank you! Three weeks left in the boot! Almost there! Night night! 🖤

Night night! 💚

Illustration of rats running down a hillside away from an owl in flight in front of a full moon.

Goodnight.
From Jugend, 1896.

"She was the Princess Angora — a cat transformed by the Ogre-witch into a flawless vision of loveliness.”

(Les contes de Perrault / continués par Timothée Trimm)

🎨 Henry de Montaut

#bookwormsat #goldenageofillustration #booksky #bookillustration #caturday

😁

Sweet doggie.

Simpkin sat upright on a chair holding a cup of tea ready for the tailor who is lying in a draped four poster bed with whole sheets and striped covers. Illustration.

30 The Tailor of Gloucester when Simpkin came back with the pipkin of milk! Simpkin opened the door and bounced in, with an angry "G-r-r-miaw!" like a cat that is vexed: for he hated the snow, and there was snow in his ears, and snow in his collar at the back of his neck. He put down the loaf and the sausages upon the dresser, and sniffed. "Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my twist?" But Simpkin set down the pipkin of milk upon the dresser, and looked suspiciously at the tea-cups. He wanted his supper of little fat mouse! "Simpkin," said the tailor, "where is my TWIST?"

A little more Beatrix Potter for #BookWormSat today and naughty, mouse-loving Simpkin.

Painting of the three witches around a cauldron, sadly no Graymalkin…

‘I come, Graymalkin.’ ~ First Witch, Macbeth, Shakespeare. 🐈‍⬛ #BookWormSat
🖼️ Daniel Gardner, 1775.

The Bear asleep beside me holding my hand. Photo

This is what #Caturdays are for.

😂

It sounds fascinating.