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James Randall
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wild stories & things mostly — writing adult & children’s creative non-fiction and fiction, incl. illustrated folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette, HarperCollins. Also edit and devise. PhD, Goldsmiths (literature).
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Green heron
(Butorides virescens)

yesterday on the Imperial river
Bonita Springs, Florida

#ColorADay #GreenSat #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth #green #eastcoastkin #native #birds #birding #birdoftheday #photography #birdphotography
Small, stocky wading bird, about the size of a crow, that has a distinctive reddish-brown neck and chest, a blackish-green back, and bright yellow legs and feet.
November 29, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Romare Bearden, American (1911-1988), Circe, 1977, collage on paper mounted to fiberboard, 15 x 9 3/8 in, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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behold: today’s figure appearing in oak, Newton st Loe
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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'Blue Light' by contemporary, Brighton-based, UK painter Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt
Painting of a townscape at dusk or dawn with a large square with many people walking and with a row of buildings in the background with lights in the windows, the scene is all bathed in blue light
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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jiminy's animal reviews: This dandy little fella is a blue-back reed frog (𝘏𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘹𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴), a bush frog found in eastern Madagascar. Blue and yellow is the most common coloration, but they can change it to anything from a soft white, yellow, or a dark brown. 🧵
A small frog sitting crouched with its legs tucked in on a plant frond. It is a soft pastel blue on top, pale yellow underneath, and has two large brown eyes with a thick black line going from the tip of its nose to its eyes. "Heterixalus madagascariensis" by Pavel Kirillov is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/?ref=openverse.
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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#FossilFriday
Fossilized Ammonite (Bacculites compressus) from the former Western Interior Seaway, which helped form the Pierre Shale formation.
Ammonite
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Praise Song Praise the light of late November, the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones. Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees; though they are clothed in night, they do not despair. Praise what little there's left: the small boats of milkweed pods, husks, hulls, shells, the architecture of trees. Praise the meadow of dried weeds: yarrow, goldenrod, chicory, the remains of summer. Praise the blue sky that hasn't cracked yet. Praise the sun slipping down behind the beechnuts, praise the quilt of leaves that covers the grass: Scarlet Oak, Sweet Gum, Sugar Maple. Though darkness gathers, praise our crazy fallen world; it's all we have, and it's never enough. A poem by Barbara Crooker
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Nuit
Nuit
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A small moment as a whole event
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme is #MorningLight so here's a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) eating an African Tulip seedpod (nasty introduced tree that kills bees).
#Brisbane #Australia #birds #wildlife #birdpic #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin
Large white cockatoo with its sulphur-coloured crest raised eats a seedpod clasped in its left foot while holding onto the very top of a branch with its right. The branch ends with another seedpod vertically across the bird's body.
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Ice Storm in Quebec, 1998
Photo of a electrical transmission tower collapsed under the weight of ice. It looks organic, like a dying dinosaur. I looked, but I couldn't find the photographer.
April 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"Sleepchains" by Anne Carson: "Here we go mother on the shipless ocean / Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."
SLEEPCHAINS Who can sleep when she- hundreds of miles away I feel that vast breath fan her restless decks. Cicatrice by cicatrice all the links rattle once.
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Juan Pablo Zaramella, Lion In Autumn (c. 2015) #CaturdayEve
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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#photography #ColorADay #GreenSat
#reflection #composite #nature #PotD
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Statuette of the Egyptian god Thoth, frequently presented in the form of a baboon.

Ptolemaic Period 332-30 BC.
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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The Zwergkiwi (Die Ausstellung)
Nummeriertes Werk no. 5o93

Außenlager des DadaFürthMuseum zu Fürth
[unauffindbar]

Idee Konzept AI (Reve) Realisation

Meister Jeder, Kurator, Sammler, Kiwifreund 11/25
#dada #DadaFürthMuseum #Kiwi #Zwergkiwi #Neuseeland #Studio #AI #AIart #Ausstellung
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Whispers of a Golden Meadow.

🎨 Jo Starkey
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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For the first time in over 10,000 years, a long-silent volcano in Ethiopia has erupted. 🌋🇪🇹

Nothing like this has ever been documented in modern history. 🤯

The blast was so powerful that its ash traveled across continents, reaching countries far beyond Africa.
For the first time in over 10,000 years, a long-silent volcano in Ethiopia has erupted. 🌋🇪🇹 Nothing like this has ever been documented in modern history. 🤯 The blast was so powerful that its ash traveled across continents, reaching countries far beyond Africa. The eruption sent clouds soaring more than 10 miles into the sky — well above the height at which commercial airplanes fly. ⬆️ The phenomenon was so dramatic that satellites were able to capture it clearly from space. 🛰️📸
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#Sculpture in bronze, Statue of Horus in the form of a falcon (600 B.C.) #art #Egypt
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Imi Knoebel.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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[Blake’s] “Orc stalks the future ruins of London and New York like an apocalyptic diamond dog, crossing Boston Common as a coyote, stealing into the marble halls of the library, only to be told to hush.”
quote from Philip Hoare’s William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love, p.89
November 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM