Ingythingy

Wanting a better life for us. ❣️

Kitty!

Photo of an Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has rather a friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the museum in the division of finds.

Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛❤️

To celebrate here’s a lovely naturalistic painting of a hippo on a small flake of limestone. Painted by an Egyptian artist some 3,500 years ago!

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Snowdrops in the foreground flanked by a frozen ditch. A wintery bit of sun. A farmhouse and shed in the background. Brielle, the Netherlands

When I took out the green container with garden and food waste, I noticed the snowdrops along the frozen ditch. Just a moment later, a guy on a horse came by.

#nederland #brielle

I see the kitty!
Love your art.

Sarah Jarrett
The House That Remembered The Horse

yes, indeedy! 🐈‍⬛

I’m pretty sure you all needed to see this video of a baby manatee with its mom.

In 2017, US Immigration required I get a MMR boost as a green card requirement. That seems like a galaxy far, far away.

Or, on the sweetness (essence) of apples, the meaning of life, and meeting death. ❣️

Pretty! Lol, rage-knitting

Rippling water reflecting bare tree branches. Photo by Ingrid Janse-Wood Feb 2026

wishing for
no pain
consuming
an endless stream
of new distractions

#poetry

Three bison appearing out of the mist.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

A black labrador playing catch the ball in the snow ❄️

Ball catching in the Eden Valley, #Cumbria

#landscapephotography
#labrador
#dog
#winter
#uk

Cornflowers, nigella, sweet peas & Russian sage on a brown sketchbook page with my drawings of them on the opposite page

A spring collection of nature finds with my illustrations of them alongside and my watercolour palette and paintbrush in the top left hand corner

Five summer garden flowers (lavender, borage, Alchemical mollie, fever and viola) on a sketchbook with my pen and ink drawings of them alongside, a small garden posy above on a white tablecloth and a cup of tea in the top right hand corner of the photo

Summer garden and hedgerow botanical and nature finds with my drawings of them alongside on a piece of white sketchbook paper

I still have a few spaces on my 28 Feb botanical illustration & mental health w'shop
I teach you
🌿how to break plants down to simple shapes & add shading
🧠how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
Earlybird price expires 14 Feb
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Macro photograph of a kiwi flower

Kiwi Flower
#photography #art
#macro #flowers

@4til7.bsky.social

Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly domin...

Forests may be growing faster—but they’re also becoming weaker, simpler, and far more vulnerable (& disappearing🔥👀)

Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Pls take good care of yourself 😌

The Rev. William Barber II: Fighting Autocrats Starts at the Grassroots Bishop Barber says you can't undermine authoritarianism from DC down—it has to come from state-based movements doing micro-organizing at the county level.

NEW: Last week, Speaker Johnson outlined his theological defense of Trump's immigration policies, saying he was "happy to have this lengthy debate with anybody any time they want to.”

Speaking an @rns.org podcast, Rev. William Barber offered to take him up on that. religionnews.com/2026/02/09/t...

I did spot the kitty!

Working and playing in nature, with nature helps me grieve and heal.
#playfulbeingsacredbeing

Worked on clearing a section of a land tongue at our sauna resort. Fun bit: lost my balance and wound standing in the ditch.

@4til7.bsky.social

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I hope that your evening is delicious ❤️

“To smile with your eyes you must perforce know how to love.” - Anton Sammut (contemporary philosopher and author)

Beautifully expressed truth!

#goodreads #booksky

Anton Sammut's Goodreads link:
www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

#mood at the service desk

All 83,000 acres of an Alabama National Forest.

I did not want to share this week’s USDA press release as there’s no comment or objection period, and I don’t want things to seem hopeless.

So I’ll note the comment and objection period is the midterms.

These are your lands.

These are the stakes.

Not the best newspaper, but yes, housing is a prime issue here...