Theodorus 🐼

Cape Cod sunsets.

Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

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A small bird with a bright blue head, green back, red chest, and orange underparts perched on a branch.

Painted Bunting at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, South Carolina

#birds #nature

A trip to the #Maudrobe of our #Frockingfabulous legend, Queen Maud: Sleek looks of 1937, Maud style! #Fashionhistory via Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.

Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)

mama bear catching sockeye at the river for her FOUR cubs

A reminder for future generations….please don’t let this kind of music die out.

Mystic beach 🌊

Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.

I just love her so much

hello i drew some dogs

Happy Birthday Lenny 💜

I like it here much more than Twitter

I think I made people mad 🤔

You too!!!

Black cat on a blue and black gamer chair

She's a gamer girl

Cartoon depiction, one person handing a book ban list the other person presenting the list as current reading list!

Good morning beautiful souls! School's out so the summer reading club will start Monday at my library and I'm the lead this year. Maybe some #GoodTrouble in my future 😎 Happy Friday!
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A pair of dog ears surface from deep snow.

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“The dual-finned Canadian land shark surfaces briefly, scouting the area for signs of potential prey.”

Da Beatles

Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina snuggling on a chair.

Happy birthday to the #frockingfabulous #ClaireMcCardell, designer of this summer stunner! #fashionhistory of 1960, via FIDM.

A bright yellow bird with reddish streaking on the chest and darker wing edges. He is perched in a leafy tree with lots of small green caterpillars in his beak.

Yellow Warbler with a beak full of small grubs. Looks like this handsome fellow is a dad. If you love birds, please help conserve bugs. Don't use pesticides and leave some leaf litter around in the fall. The birds will thank you. 🪶

A cat rests next to a kitchen window, a serrated knife tucked behind its paw.

“Isn’t it beautiful, Barbara? Isn’t it just so lovely how the sunlight gleams and dances along the edge Oh, how it sparkles! Why don’t you come a little bit closer and see? Barbara? Barbara, where are you going?”

Evening dress from the late 1820s, early 1830s in a white or light beige color. Its sleeves are short and puffed, and has buttons on the chest. The dress is embroidered with flowered motives. It is very elegant.

Evening dress, 1829-31. Cora Ginsburg.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by English painter John William Waterhouse (1893). Hessisches Landesmuseum.