Sorry, I will be busy with some home improvements this week.
Will start posting again next week.
Take care, see you soon. 🙏🏻

A little context 👨🏻‍🏫

Paris population (Metropolitan area):
1953 ~ 6.4M
2026 ~ 12.3M

Paris tourists:
1953 ~ 5.2M (all France)
2025 ~ 37.4M (Paris Metropolitan area only).

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🟡⚫️🟡 "My own Tiger"
Photo by Bergamax 🙋🏻‍♂️

The insect in the image is a Gerania bosci, a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle commonly found in Southeast Asia, it is harmless to humans, feeding on wood.

#photography #beetles #insects #nature

Sound of Gerewol, Chad 🇹🇩

In Sahel, the nomadic Wodaabe community celebrates the moment of courtship through songs and dances that go on for days

Unmarried men prepare for hours to "compete" among themselves to be chosen by young women.

By Italian Traveler: Shiny Goat [FB]

#dance #sounds #culture

The Simca Special, 1957.

A one-of-a-kind concept car designed by Virgil Exner Jr. as his Master's thesis at the University of Notre Dame. Its fiberglass body and massive tail fins made it an icon of space-age automotive design.

#cars #automobile #design #oldtimes

"Fool's Cap World Map", 1590, unknown artist.

The artwork is a vanitas piece, a genre intended to remind viewers of the transience of life and the futility of worldly pursuits.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) in Paris.
#maps #satirical #Fool's #world

Wheel-O was one of those toys I played with off and on for years, 70s.

#toys #oldtimes #fun

A Victorian-era taxidermy bird firescreen, typically dating from the late 19th century (c. 1860–1870)

The Victorians were deeply fascinated by exotic, iridescent birds, which they viewed as "gems of the jungle".

#birds #taxidermy #nature #oldtimes

"Feeling of Summer", 2023.
Oil on Board, 35 × 50 cm.

Sergiu Ciochină, Moldavian artist, born 2001.
artserge.com
@landscapesergiy [IG]

Private Collection
#art #painting #summeriscomming #illustration

Southern Cheyenne chief Wolf Robe, photographed in 1898. Some say he was the model for the Indian Head nickel.

#Idian #portrait #black&white #photography #oldtimes

The McCartney family at their home, 1974.

#music #home #family #legends #oldtimes

Tourists in Paris, 1953.

#travel #photography #fashion #oldtimes

Март ...

Washington, DC

It only takes one to awaken change.

#photography #nature #flowers #bloomscrolling #spring #BlueskyIsGreat #kindness

A shell of a vehicle sits in the desert

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaput
Clean one owner, Petrified Forest N.P., #Arizona
#photography

If not for the blubber of the fearless crew, the buoy would be lost .. the buoy would be lost

Here on Hooligan’s Isle ..
#gilligansisland

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曇りな朝、お天気は下り坂らしいですが本日は南風で暖かいらしいです‼️

花粉気をつけて本日も皆さんが笑顔で暮らせますように🙏💕🎶🌸

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なっかよーくけんかしな〜🎶🎶
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　2人🤭）

🐤来ないで💢
🐥そんな〜🥲🥲🥲
　ぼくおとうちゃんのスマホ
　のってるだけたよ💦

#オカメインコ
#セキセイインコ

Good morning! 🥚🐣

手嶌葵 - 森の小さなレストラン（Official Audio） YouTube video by 手嶌葵

Mori No Chiisana Restaurant by Aoi Teshima.
youtu.be/EYGGd2NKwtI?...

🐦‍⬛ The reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), a medium-sized heron that is a resident breeder in Central America, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States (primarily Texas), and Mexico.

Photo by Bill Long Photography [flickr]

#birds #nature #wildlife

"A Young Girl in a Field," 1857
Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm.

By German artist Ludwig Knaus. (1829-1910).
Although realistic in style, a certain Impressionist tone can be perceived in the rendering of the natural landscape.

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
#art #painting #illustration

Caddisfly larva (Trichoptera) with its portable case made out of diatoms. 🔬🦠🌱

#nature #science #biology #microscopy

The first human steps on the lunar surface from the classic Tintin adventure comic, Explorers on the Moon (On a marché sur la lune), 1954.
By the Belgian cartoonist Hergé.

#space #comics #moon #classics

A hand painted ceramic love dish, in where a young woman is framed by a scroll that reads: "As long as I live, I will love you, and after your death my one humble desire is to be united with you. I am left at your mercy." c. Italy, 1540–60.

#Antique #plate #Ceramics

Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger (Khanjar), Persian, 19th Century.

#horses #gems #blue #antique

"The Traveling Companions", 1862.
oil-on-canvas.

By British artist Augustus Leopold Egg (1816 – 1863).

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
#art #painting #illustration #travel

The Exorcist, a relax reading in the bathtub, 1971. 😨

The Exorcist, written by American William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row, is one of the scariest books ever written.

#books #terror #bath #oldtimes #reading

A Woodward’s gas station in Vancouver, Canada, in 1966.

#gas #prices #oil #cars #oldtimes