Catherine H. Michael

What do penguins, seals and whales all have in common? 🐧🦭🐋

They depend on Antarctica’s krill, a shrimp-like crustacean that’s also a massive carbon sink. Right now, krill fishing is at record highs, threatening the entire ecosystem.

'M3gan 2.0' was the most-viewed horror movie on linear and streaming in early October, per Nielsen's latest snapshot: bit.ly/3WvBF80

Thanks so much, Janet!! I need good vibes.

Niece’s

Daytime with blue sky and green grass

Nighttime at a yard filled with ghosts

Daytime nighttime. I’m flying to my nieces wedding Friday and I’m starting to feel anxious. 10/29/25

Didn't know ADLF was on Bluesky. Thank you all.

I don’t see them at the local flea markets, not even a theremin.

Falconetti🙏

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”

-Carl Dreyer

RIP PRUNELLA SCALES - who’s left us aged 93.

Leaves falling from a green tree

Leaves falling from a green tree

Leaves swelling from an orange tree

Leaves falling from a yellow tree

Looking down the street at sunrise with the street lamps still on and Venus, I think in the sky

This new store looks like it’s finally ready to open El amigo, tacos, and tequila

Frost on the lot of a campus in Ithaca, New York

Steam from the building looking orange from the sunrise

My morning walk 28 October 2025

Kat Savage Succeeds Susan Currie as Interim Director of the Tompkins County Public Library Kat Savage began her tenure as the interim director of the Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) on Oct. 13, succeeding Susan Currie after her three-month stint as interim director came

www.ithaca.com/news/tompkin.... Congrats to Kat

Head and shoulders painted portrait of a white woman facing left looking outwards. The subject wears a low cut dress with pearl necklace and has long curled dark hair

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) English Restoration era playwright & poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. A feminist forerunner, she was involed in Libertine circles, those who rejected traditional social constraints #WomensArt

WITCHES POTIONS and SPELLS ~ cover of the book Witches' Potions and Spells by Kathryn Paulsen. The cover is illustrated in a vintage style, with a turquoise background and black and white line drawings. The illustration depicts two witches in black robes and pointed hats, stirring a large black cauldron over a fire. The text "WITCHES POTIONS and SPELLS" is prominently displayed at the top. The scene includes stylized trees and a red sun or moon with a bat flying in front of it. Other creatures, such as a crow, an owl, and a chameleon, are also part of the design.

Book Cover of the Day:

Woman in white apron in kitchen cutting into a pumpkin, painting.

Carving the Pumpkin by Franck Antoine Bail, 1910. 🎃

Happy birthday to our queen!

What’s the difference between ghosts and demons? Books, folklore and history reflect society’s supernatural beliefs Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political upheaval.

About half of Americans believe ghosts and demons are real, according to a 2020 poll. An English scholar explores the literary record to uncover how people have imagined ghosts and demons — and what sets them apart. buff.ly/FuYV4Dv #Halloween 👻

FRANCIS BACON’s “Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953) - terrified me for years.

Years later I found myself stood in front of it at the Tate Modern.
My reaction: I started laughing.
No idea why.

Incredible Artist.

Bacon was born 116yrs ago today.

Painting of a woman in a room dressed in a long blue dress and head scarf pointing to a black cat on a green mat on the floor, on the wall is a picture in a frame of a black cat lying in exactly the same position on a green surface

In Western arts over time cats could be included in paintings as symbolic of ideas of mystery or female sensuality. Black cats particularly were associated with witches (aka wise women who had skills in healing).
Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, Two Cats and a Lady, 1958 #womensart

#FairyTaleTuesday Halloween Postcards, ca. 1900–1920
Personified pumpkins drive automobiles, line up to salute the toes of young women, and saunter on high heels fashioned from turnips. Cats do their usual thing — creating charming chaos. publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

TODAY Tuesday 10/28 is the final movie in our Staff Picks Halloween series, and it's Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire!!

The English version will play at 6pm and the German version at 8:30pm!

See you at the movies!

#ithaca #ithacany #ithacacommons #downtownithaca #607 #cinemapolis

Watch Sunday Morning: Extended interview: Guillermo del Toro - Full show on CBS In this web exclusive, the Oscar-winning director talks about his latest film, his reimagining of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and about his lifelong love of the mythic horror tale

www.cbs.com/shows/video/...

You can see the gold (in the trees).

Pathway in the woods with trees, all around a chain-link fence to the left and a girl in a jacket in the bottom, right

My friend took a picture of me with a rainbowesque light.

How to draw an owl 1. Draw some circles 2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl

"They say the owl was a baker's daughter" - Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5

#ShakespeareSunday #Hamlet

An orb in front of the cloud as the sun peaks from behind

Taughannock Falls State Park in the finger leaks

Stairwell up to the park surrounded by trees with the sun at the top

Bright white cloud over an autumn tree line

Walk through the park before going to the grocery store. 10/26/25

Ringo Starr, April 22, 1964. The #Beatles A Hard Day's Night

Ringo Starr, April 22, 1964.
The #Beatles A Hard Day's Night

Anne of Bohemia & Hungary, wearing an A+ outfit w/ super pendant hat ornament (distracting when walking!). Also fine lapdog. By Hans Maler, whose day is today.

Headline: hate at first sight how Kenneth Branagh misunderstood Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Betty T Bennett

Please write a review! I kept one by Betty Bennett of Branagh’s version. I’ve been hoping for something less scathing this time.