Hughes, Grace Greggory

A fairy moth scene in muted green tones. The figure of a young woman with strands of light rising from her head like a crown stands on a circle of 9 giant moths. A large toad at her feet has wings coming out of its mouth indicating it’s just caught a nice meal, and large mushrooms grow all around.

🎨 The Light We Carry, oils on copper panel, Annie Stegg art

Digital painting of a bright blue sky, half of it covered with fibrous white clouds wrapped around one another, wispy on their edges.

We report: in another place, the sky remains this blue most of the day. The clouds appear out of thin air, and fade back without causing much disruption, barely approaching the sun during their short-lived existences. The air is dry, even quite warm when we stand in the sunshine.

Digital painting of a dramatic sunset sky, a stripe of bright yellow on the horizon, and bright orange clouds fading out to purple-grey. The clouds are wide strokes, but very thin where they fan out.

We report during a slow burn of a sunset: first, a yellow glow on the horizon, and then the wisps of gold streaking through the sky. By the time we went out to see more, the artefacts of the sun were holding the whole thing together, delicate architecture built over an hour.

Digital painting of a sunset sky, a gradient of blue and orange, with a cluster of grey and bright orange clouds of various sizes off to the left-hand side of the frame.

We report in waning sunshine: a couple of days after the equinox, we experience its lesser-known cousin, the equilux. We thought our expert was making fun of us as they spelled it out. Today, day and night are the same length. We stand here at sunset in a rare moment of balance.

Sweet Briar wallpaper design for Morris & Co by J.H. Dearle in 1912. This pattern features a repeating motif of delicate pink rose heads blooming amidst barbed, woody stems and curling green leaves.

John Henry Dearle

Digital painting of a rainy landscape: faraway hills washed out by the rain, save for where the sun is coming through, right on top of a group of white houses. Right there, the green of the grass and the trees is more vibrant. A patch of rainbow glows. The sky is a fuzzy jumble of grey clouds, with a bit of pale blue showing.

We report from the doorstep, while towel-drying our hair: we left the door open when we came in. The rain is falling straight down, crackling static scrambling the horizon. Our eyes keep shifting back to the spot of sunshine in the distance, wondering if it is raining over there.

The image is an illustration from "The Wanderer," a wordless picture book by Peter Van den Ende. It depicts a small paper boat navigating a vast, textured ocean under a starry night sky illuminated by the Northern Lights The illustration is monochrome.

Goodnight. May all our dreams be magical journeys that gently lead us to Monday.
🖼️ The Wanderer, Peter Van den Ende.

Two turquoise-blue hippopotamus figurines, one larger with black plant motifs and an open mouth, the smaller one lying on its side.

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me

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Sandy beach with calm sea and a clear blue sky, with distant clouds on the horizon.

Crow eating a persimmon on branch of tree, painting.

Morning.
Crow eating a Persimmon, Ohara Koson, 1910.

Fig and Peacock wallpaper, designed by Walter Crane (1845-1915) around 1895 and produced by Jeffrey & Co. It features a majestic peacock with outstretched wings and a flowing tail, rendered in shades of blue, green, and reddish-brown, amidst the lush foliage of a fig tree.

Walter Crane, Fig and Peacock wallpaper, 1895.

Painting as described- night scene over river with fireflies, light from a window in a house by the river shines on the water, trees are silhouetted against the night sky.

Goodnight.✨
Fireflies at Kinu River in Tennoji, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1880.

Digital painting of a sunset sky, focused on a single cloud. The sky is a gradient of twilight blue with drops of pastel green, and the cloud is a vibrant streak of orange, purple and blue.

We report while the clouds take flight: the wind blows from the southwest following an air pressure drop. It is fierce, loud, setting the sky alight in its wake. We hear whistles as it weaves through the trees, howls when it tries to get under the roof of our home.

The figure of a woman, suggestive of Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, forms the stand of the mirror. A dove rests in the open palm of her outstretched hand. Two cherubs, or winged Erotes, hover above her on the lower edge of the round-faced mirror. There is a small hound chasing a hare up each side of the mirror’s frame, and a flower grows on both sides of a siren, part bird, part woman, perched at the top.

🎨 Bronze mirror with a stand in the form of a draped woman (Greek, Argive,
mid-5th century BCE) The MET

rosemary is a plant of the sun. it is a plant of memory, renewal, recovery, clarity, and cleansing. it crowns gods, royalty, victors, scholars, and newlyweds. warming, drying, vivifying, antioxidant, resilient, evergreen.

A dark cave entrance can be seen at the base of what is possibly a mountain, though it is out of frame. The visible rock face is painted in brown, amber, and gray hues with greenery in the background and on the topside of the cave. The sky is blue with only a hint of white cloud on the far horizon. Tufts of green moss are visible around the cave entrance.

Landscape with a Cave. Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (French, Chaumes, Nièvre 1798–1871 Lyon), oil on canvas. The MET.

Geometry is here personified as a pregnant woman with one hand on her belly and the other drawing a square, a triangle, and a circle in the sky. She is hovering in a cloud, god-like, above a landscape scene consisting of a river with birds, a river bank, rolling hills with gently triangular peaks, and the more rugged base of a rocky mountain.

Geometria XXIIII, by an unknown artist referred to as the Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian 1460's), engraving. The MET.

Large dark burgundy jug with the figure of a kneeling winged being concentrating intently on the work in their hands carved in a much lighter contrasting shade.

🎨 Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
Greek, Attic (ca. 470–460 BCE), The MET

String of light blue, turquoise, sea green, cowrie-shaped beads.

🎨 String of 46 Cowroids (cowrie-shaped beads) Inscribed with Various Hieroglyphs including the ankh (life), nefer (beautiful or good), and maat (truth). From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, New Kingdom period, Dynasty 18, The MET

A complex scene unfolds in the clouds. The figure of a woman dominates the chaos beneath her. She is pulling a man’s hair. The man is unclothed and entangled with a serpent. A monstrous beast with clouds spilling from its mouth is next to his knee. The colors are brown and shadowed orange with dusty gold highlights.

🎨 The Triumph of Truth over Envy, Etching and aquatint with gold leaf by Maria Catharina Prestel (1781) German artist, The MET

A pencil and chalk drawing of a woman in a sheer gown holding a lyre. The image is on paper the color of parchment framed in gray, bordered in cream on a pale gray background.

🎨 A Muse of Poetry, Graphite and chalk on paper by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (French, 19th century), The MET

Thursday: Moon void in Capricorn 3:08am in Aquarius 3:32am PDT, Mars in Libra square Jupiter in Cancer. The energy is strong. Cover the ante and place your bet. Discerning what emotions we value & where to invest and risk them.

how (and why) to build a book altar at long last, a guide

if you’re struggling with consistently paying attention to your WIP, consider building a book altar. here’s how:

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The view is overflowing with tulips in bloom. The blooms have a gradient tone from white to pale pink to dark pink and thick green foliage on a pale lime green background. They give the impression of a flowing river of flowers or of a flower dragon moving through in the landscape.

🎨 Tulips in bloom (2000) Zhou Zhongyao, Chinese contemporary artist ink and color on paper scroll www.artnet.com/artists/zhou...

A cat with white to honeyed-orange toned fur stalks the bees visiting the flowers blooming all around

🎨 猫石花卉 (Cat Stone Flowers) by Zhou Zhongyao, Chinese contemporary artist

Black cat with big beautiful peridot eyes and discretely folded large leathery bat wing surrounded by green foliage. A large moth in warm brown hues alights nearby and a crescent moon is perfectly aligned overhead. Moon flowers bloom up the left side of the composition.

🎨 Moon by Annie Stegg, oil painter, artist, illustrator inspired by mythology, folklore, nature, and 18th-century Rococo art
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An owl perches at the top of a megalith in a snowy landscape. Capped standing stones are in the background. The sky is full of stars and the full moon. The owl is luminous, surrounded by gold foil like a full body halo. Gold accents form a labyrinth-like spiral on the megalith beneath the owl’s feet and on the stars in the night sky. Two birds glide in the distance.

🎨 The Owl King (2025) by Angie Livingston, The Glittering Fox

the warming gem