Indigo Sky 💙

Low tide at Lough Foyle reveals rippled sand and shallow reflective pools stretching toward calm water, mirroring a dramatic sky filled with towering dark storm clouds and bright breaks of sunlight. A faint rainbow arcs subtly through the right side of the clouds, while the distant hills of Donegal form a soft, blue-grey silhouette along the horizon, adding depth and contrast to the moody coastal scene.

Good morning. Lough Foyle with a dramatic sky. Hint of rainbow. #TidesOutTuesday #Ireland #photography #EastCoastKin

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

a cartoon of a man from king of the hill holding a can Alt: Hank Hill saying YEP.

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Happy LNY Amber 🐎

A digital sketch of a running horse in black lines.

I drew this 11 years ago. I knew it would come in handy someday. (Happy New Year!)

Back in the day, I had Adderall insomnia. So I put the time to art.

These lines of nihilist hope from Serbian poet Branko Miljković have really struck me hard today.

The Sea Before I Start Dreaming

Travel while there's still a world and knowledge
Dust will make you beautiful. You'll know the ashes and the light

There's still strength in you to crucify yourself

Also paternalism has resulted in sex-selective BC resulting in a demographic shortage of women in many countries and age groups 🙁

Earflaps are excessive 🤔

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a man in a black and yellow kimono carrying a pink cloth Alt: A sumo wrestler in a black and yellow kimono running his hand along a long length of pink cloth

Maybe Ura, who isn't the best of the best but does use a bunch of acrobatic moves and unusual techniques. Everyone loves Ura. Here he is with the material for his pink loincloth.

Another beautiful sunset on the lake. On the pontoons along the lake, with a staircase that invites you to swim

#ColorADay
#BlueTue
#TidesOut
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersofBlueSky

Escaping to the side roads leading to the darkness of The dreaming ... 🖤

piece of frozen scape, elementals caught in ice

stilled morning, turned to ice

Doom omens on distant winds
Spirals they come close again
Things they swear never happen
Monsters wearing human skin

Love it marches on again
Dear tree almost burned from sin
Fear it lingers cold in veins
Hungry futures grasps with limbs
Hewn from pasts lit with regret

Tempests circle our houses

The sad madness and death of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a favorite subject of the group of British artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelites. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which included William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frequently depicted literary subjects, placing an emphasis on emotional and symbolic content. Though not an original member of the Pre-Raphaelites, Arthur Hughes embraced their aims. Hughes shows Ophelia as a melancholy young woman with piercing blue eyes and flowing red hair. In her madness, she is gathering flowers to hang on the willow tree; she will soon slip into the stream and drown. Hughes includes the same flowers and plants that Shakespeare chose for their symbolic meanings. The willow stood for sadness and forsaken love, the daisy for innocence, and the violets around Ophelia’s wrist for faithfulness. The little blue forget-me-nots in the grass are an appropriate addition, though Shakespeare does not include them. Hughes adds another significant flower not mentioned by Shakespeare: red poppies, symbolic of death.

Ophelia ("And He Will Not Come Back Again") by Arthur Hughes, c. 1865, Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio)

#ArtHistory #Romanticism #PreRaphaelite

Impossible.

Streak buster 🙁 mine was in the 30s.

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misty weather
serene and moody
hibiscus sky

Basho

If I told you
the ferocity of wanting you,
how it prowls my ribs and names you home,
your lips would still make that small, surprised O
as if desire were a gentle thing.

#emoetry #writingprompt #ferocity

Tellaro, la spezia, Liguria

Tellaro village, la spezia, Liguria

Long weekend in Liguria. The tiny coastal village of Tellaro.

😌 ❤️

i am here
a Sun and Moon fancier
drumming places
hands outstretched squint eyeing late light
long day palming wildflowers
wading memory scented

this protagonist
she rides horses
or did at one time
i'll give you a 4 instance 2 playing here

in the interregnum
she spies me
before daylight

A sunset behind trees. Red. Going to darker pink

I hope everyone enjoys their evening.
#photography #EastCoastKin #sunsets

Foggy morning in the foothills. Deciduous and conifer trees with low clouds, dark rolling hills behind, blue-gray mountains, topped with layers of blue-gray clouds turning whitish at top.

Foggy morning in the foothills yesterday. Have a beautiful day. 💙

Deep in the couch cushions under all the cat hair.

Awww 💔 😢

Roses are red
Roses are pink
They come in more colours
Than most people think