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Rachel Deering
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Fleurs Des Champs, Seraphine de Senlis.
Painting of wild blossoms and foliage in pinks, blues against a solid, deep teal or blue-green background.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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🖼 Anne Pratt, C19th.
Fern illustration
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Foretelling the Snow. Hannah Willow.
Painting of brown bear who sits on the forest floor, looking upward into the dark, snow-dusted trees. Snow is falling gently around the bear. Bright, golden, circular lights, resembling glowing snowflakes or lanterns, hang from the bare branches,
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Heinrich Schlitt, c.1912. #FrogForFriday #FaerieFriday
A painting titled Froschschaukel (Frog Swing) by the German artist and illustrator Heinrich Schlitt (1849–1923). It features a gnome and several frogs. Two frogs are balanced on a wooden plank acting as a seesaw over water. On the left, a gnome with a long white beard, wearing a red cap and coat, is smoking a pipe and observing the scene. Another frog sits on the left side of the seesaw, its feet just touching the water. A third frog sits on the right side, higher up. A large bee or fly is flying in the center background.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Hello Friday.
One of Sylvia Plath’s sketches.
Cat peeping around a corner, sketch. ‘Curlous French Cat by Sylvia Plath’
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
(Zoology of New York, 1844.)
Gold wren on black book cover.
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Red Squirrel, Winifred Austen.
Illustration, red squirrel on branch.
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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🖼️ Theo van Hoytema
Wren on snowy branch, painting
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Morning.
Birds in town & village, by W.H. Hudson
Wren in foliage by tree, pink flower, illustration.
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Jahna Vashti
Illustration of white fox wearing a witch’s hat with yellow flowers and burgundy cloak on a broomstick flying over a forest, in the background are the northern lights and a full moon with a smiling face. The fox also has a little bag around its waist to carry the special herbs it collects.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Autumn sunshine Bear.
Photo of my cat by hedge, sat on grass with Autumn leaves.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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William De Morgan
Iznik Empress accent tile, a reproduction design inspired by original tiles created for Leighton House. The design draws heavily from historical Islamic and Ottoman Iznik tiles. The background colour is a deep, rich blue. The primary decorative elements feature a mix of teal, green, terracotta, and white. A stylized, tear-drop or urn-shaped motif sits at the center, filled with smaller floral details. The pattern is highly symmetrical, with mirrored floral and leaf elements extending outwards from the centre. Various stylized flowers and scrolling leaves (known as rumi motifs) and small crescent moon shapes are visible along the top border of the design.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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The Whimsical Butterflies, Spicher & Company.
Painting of large moth with red and black spotted wings, a large green ginkgo leaf, various plants are depicted, including ferns, sprigs of lavender, small green leaves, and delicate blue-green flowers. Several types of mushrooms are illustrated, notably a large, red-capped Amanita muscaria with white spots, and several smaller, lighter-colored mushrooms. In addition to the large moth, there is a smaller yellow and black butterfly a red ladybird.
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Hello Thursday.
Illustration from The Story of the Kind Wolf by Peter Nickl, Jozef Wilkon, 1982.
Kind wolf holding rabbit in snow landscape illustration.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Bushes in the snow, Caspar David Friedrich, c.1827.
As described, dark background, wintered branches, patches of mud.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Dark book cover with gold decorated heart with title: COMPANIONS OFTHE SORROWFUL WAY
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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🖼️ Marieke Nelissen
Badger in set with autumn leaves, painting.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Portrait of a Lady in a black dress with pearls, Anon, c. 1590.
Portrait, woman wearing an Elizabethan black gown and a large, stiff, open ruff made of lace. Her dress is heavily embellished with strings of pearls draped across her bodice and sleeves. The sleeves are large and puffed. She also wears a pearl headdress.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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🖼️ David Ladmore
Crow stood in grass, green background. Painting.
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Blackbird, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1869.
Illustration of blackbird, singing, grass, shrubs, trees in background.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Goodnight. Early night. Very, very tired.
🖼️ The Selkie Folk, Anita Inverarity.
Two deals / selkies, one in foreground, one further in distance on stylised sea of greys and purples, seaweeds below, cliffs and cloudy moonlit sky in background, full moon,painting.
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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William Morris' Violet and Columbine pattern.
A pattern that features violets and columbines among winding stems and leaves and large central sunflower design. In greens for the background and foliage, with accents of orange, yellow, and blue, red and yellow for the flowers.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Forest floor with mushrooms, Anthonore Christensen.
Painting, as described, autumnal scene.
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Today I need a wombat.
🖼️ The Mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde. Sydney, 1871.
Wombat illustration in grassy landscape.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Hello Tuesday.
🖼️ Whyn Lewis
Painting of a white hare lying down on a white hill against a white background. Looking rather as I feel.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM