Earth's Dream
by Erté

Weasel amongst bluebells and greater stitchwort, painting.

🖼️ Dick Twinney

sidewalk chalk drawing drawn on a garden stone depicting a squirrel standing befuddled with his hands on his hips

Of the 3,627 nuts he buried last fall, Kevin has found four. #scatterhoarding

The poppy was sacred to Hypnos, god of sleep, a symbol of consolation and oblivion.

“Moreover, through the dancing poppies stole
A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul”

Endymion / John Keats
#WyrdWednesday

Illustration. A large queue of flowers presented as human figures, dressed to represent each flower or plant, approach a seated, queen-like figure. She has two winged fairies or cherubs beside her. There are also insects and birds.

Return of the Flowers
by J. J. Grandville, 1847
From 'The Flowers Personified'

#WyrdWednesday

Painting. A woman in a white kimono, holding a yellow parasol, kneels on edge of a pond in a garden. Painted between 1898 and 1901.

In a Japanese Garden
by Lilla Cabot Perry

In the week before Walpurgis Night, the owl came one last time to the lost town of Stolberg on the foot of the Harz mountains to remember.

Our 51st #arkstringtide story is a little tale for #owlishmonday.

Read it below.

🎨 Craig Kosak

The Secret College
#joncarling #drawing #art

Painting depicting a dark haired woman in a long, black dress wearing a small, red flower in her hair. She is reaching out to an owl who is perched on what's left of a white tree. A crescent moon is in the sky between them. A small cloud sits just above the woman's head.

Woman Supplicates Owl in Shattered Tree
by Gertrude Abercrombie, 1954
#OwlishMonday

Painting. A young man sits up in bed, seemingly startled. The curtains of his bed are parted and before him stands a lady in bridal clothes. An open door in the background shows a winding stair. More about this painting. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-speak-speak-n01584

'Speak! Speak!'
by John Everett Millais

#PhantomsFriday

a curled up fox with their eyes closed, a crescent moon behind them, a crescent moon in a pool in front of them. Linocut, dark blue, white and feathery orange, Maria Strutz

In celebration of the New Moon
- a fox dreaming of the moon 🦊🌀🌑
#NewMoon #FoxoftheDay

There is a Hookland dialect word I am most fond of and find inordinately useful – path-doubt. It refers to the uncertainty of looking down the way and not knowing if the folk you can glimpse are flesh and blood or phantom flicker. – #CLNolan #WOTD

Fox with crow on its back surrounded by little blue flowers with yellow centres and bluebells and daffodils, a moth on a pale green background, painting.

🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

"Wind Sprite"

🎨 Bertha Lum (1920)

A spectral woman in white plays a piano in a parlour, while a shocked man looks on.

Spirit at the Piano, by George Roux circa 1885.

#PhantomsFriday

Surreal painting of a young woman in a white dress surrounded by birds, one of them where her face would be. The birds also encircle a full moon.

'There was a Young Lady in White,
Who looked out at the depths of the Night;
But the birds of the air
Filled her heart with despair,
And oppressed that Young Lady in White.'
~Edward Lear

🎨Christian Schloe
#WyrdWednesday

Daughters of the Night
by Lajos Gulácsy, c.1900

Painting of a princess in a long red gown and a hennin headdress. She sits on a rock in a sandy landscape, with what looks like a strip of sea in the distance. The skeletal remains of an animal is partly visible on the bottom right of the scene, a vulture hovers over it while another flies a little higher up. Two more birds make vague shapes in the distance.

Princess with Vultures
by Henry Justice Ford, 1893.

Abe Toshiyuki (Japanese, b.1959)
"Tree Reflected in Puddle," 2015
Watercolor
29 x 39 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Romantic fairy tale painting depicting a woman, perhaps a princess or fairy queen, dressed in a long white, belted dress with a train. She walks through a bluebell wood accompanied by four pages, three behind (two of them holding her train) and one in front with a staff. In the background, there is a knight on horseback. Painted in 1903.

🌿The Fairy Wood
by Henry Meynell Rheam

Illustration. A black cat walks along a path in a flower garden.

'A black cat among roses,
Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.
The garden is very still,
It is dazed with moonlight
Contented with perfume.'
~Amy Lowell

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat

A wooded area with a body of water. An ethereal figure rises like mist between two trees.

The Singing Fairy
by Georges Lorin

Painting of a tabby kitten washing itself amongst blue and white flowers.

Kitten in the Sun, Thure Wallner (1888-1965).

Everyone, god and his mother might feel slightly hungover after an abundance of festivities and observances and since olden times, there are Silent Days strewn in... like today.

Days you might meet a Silent One in the woods... like the one in our 41st #darkspringtide tale below.

🎨  Martin Ball

An elderly lady, partly transparent and illuminated by a shaft of light, arranges a teapot and tea spoons on a table while a startled couple look on in the background.

A ghost comes to tea. From 'A Book Of Ghosts' (1904) by Sabine Baring-Gould. The illustration is by D Murray Smith.
#PhantomsFriday #ghosts #ghoststories #BookChatWeekly

The Haunted Castle
by Anton Pieck (1942)
#PhantomsFriday

Painting. A hall with large stained-glass windows. To the left there is a seated woman in a crinoline dress. She appears to be sleeping. Beside her, the hall is filled with ghostly figures from various time periods.

'Dreams of the Past, Hampton Court'
by Adelaide Claxton

#PhantomsFriday

From 'A glossary of words used in the neighbourhood of Sheffield' by Sidney Oldall Addy, 1888.

‘Downland Hare’ (1949) Woodblock print. A hare in a rural landscape with hills and trees, clouds in the background.

"CREEP-HEDGE, sb.

I have heard this word in the following riddle as the name of the hare:

'Creep-hedge, crop-thorn,
Little cow with leather horn.'

The answer to the riddle is 'a hare.'"

🎨Charles Tunnicliffe
#wyrdwednesday

I really like 'The Fairy Festival' and 'The Fairies - A Scene Drawn from William Shakespeare'