James Randall

nice story!

LinkedIn says he’s still at South Dartmoor (my brother a former colleague, met just a few brief times…). Real people behind these ghosts! ;)

Such are evenings spent about the fire, such are our dreams.’

He said: ‘I’m not sure humankind itself chooses the stories that it tells any more than its dreams. Novels (declamations) should be as imperious as that, being to daytime what dreams are to night. (2/3)

These pictographs in Horseshoe Canyon tell a story that no one alive today can decipher. Seems much of human history is a mystery. #HorseshoeCanyon #Canyonlands #pictographs #RockArt #landscapes #photography

Pascal Quignard:

“Albucius said: ‘Humankind is the bees. They spit up their lives in the form of stories, so they won’t remain stunned into silence… With each nightly return, they restore, amass, share, and consume the nectar they’ve gathered and the tales of their quest. (1/3)

A section of a broken branch that kind of looks like an upright walking horse…sort of.

When I used to walk my son to & from school, we used to play various games to diminish the tedium & repetition. One was finding ‘good’ sticks, we had quite the collection😂
My son, now 26 still occasionally brings them me. Last week he brought in this ‘proud horse homunculus’!
☺️

Soft pink almond blossom opening along a slender branch against a pale blue sky, with several rosy buds still closed. The delicate flowers show pale petals and golden stamens, with a painterly background.

“The almond breaks to pink against the skies;
Then do we start, and with new-opened eyes
See the true Spring begin.”

—from ‘The Garden’ by Vita Sackville-West, gardener and writer of Sissinghurst, born #OTD 9 March 1892. Have you visited the beautiful gardens of Sissinghurst?

#art #spraycanart #barcelona #artists #photography

In Flight

#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #nikon

If you want to follow a trail.. an Allan Sutton taught English & Drama at Ashburton / South Dartmoor School after that period. Fits character

lushly lichenous / Mill End river walk

finding spring’s spirit gifts

looking up

river micro-beach

lushly lichenous / Mill End river walk

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #photogenic, birds you find to be photogenic.

I don’t know about you, but I think this little Rufous-tailed Jacamar was certainly making a strong case for inclusion.

#birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin #nikon

Odili Donald Odita (Nigeria) : Firewall, 2013

Odili’s zigzagging shards of vibrant color suggest colliding cultures and emotions.

Patrick Nicholas ph. Metamorphoses series, “Arbor Vitae”,

#Sculpture, Face Inlay of the Pharaoh Akhenaten, #Egypt, New Kingdom (c. 1353-1336 BC) #art

a short golden bridge held up by enormous stone hands on the edge of a mountain covered in thick mists and rainforest is one of the best stylized and artistic, experiential installations I have ever seen with my own eyes

'In the Palm of One's Hand' (2025) -- Ba Na Hills, DaNang, Central Vietnam

#Stunday ✨ #MountainMonday ✨ #RockinTuesday ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford

ancient apple tree / #dartmoor garden

sawn willow branches

granite / primrose

Broccoli (2011)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Giulio D'Anna (1908-1978)
The Moving Train, c.1929

“Je cherche en même temps l’éternel et l’éphémère!”

[I seek at once the eternal and the ephemeral.]

— Georges Perec, Les Revenentes (1972)

Later used as the epigraph to the last chapter of *Life: A User’s Manual* (1978):

Composition sur le mot Oiseau, 1949 - Auguste Herbin (1882–1960), peintre français majeur de l’abstraction géométrique, cofondateur du groupe Abstraction-Création et théoricien d’un langage plastique fondé sur formes et couleurs.
#peinture
#Abstractiongéométrique
#AugusteHerbin

Rock carvings from Foum Chenna, Morocco. Prehistoric engravings showing cattle and other animals in the Draa Valley, evidence that this area was once much greener and inhabited by pastoral communities thousands of years ago.
#Morocco #RockArt #Prehistory #Archaeology #FoumChenna #Sahara #Petroglyphs