I'm not troubled. My seed will be shamelessly dropped somewhere.
And in the next years after next year, I'll be a tree swaying and swinging with a genealogy of berries.
I'll be that fine thing,
an ancestor.
I'll spread out my branches for the guzzling fieldfares.
Rowan Berry by Norman MacCaig
Made me think of a poem I recently read,
I'm at ease in my crimson cluster.
The tree blazes with clusters of cousins -
my cluster's the main one and I am the important berry in it.
Tomorrow, or tomorrow's tomorrow,
a flock of fieldfares
will gobble our whole generation.
“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Einstein allegedly said WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Without a doubt.
#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring
It is morning, and again
I am the lucky person to be in it
Mary Oliver
🎨 Kaoru Yamada
Philippe Janin (French painter, b. 1959)
Bleu Provence, 2019
Oil on Canvas
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
House in the Garden, 1908.
Oil on canvas. #Cubism
2.
It weeps,
helplessly hearing the cry of the helpless, the tortured, the bereaved calling and calling
in all the languages of the world.
Norman MacCaig
Scottish Poet
Leaders of Men
1.
Flourishing signatures & smiles,
They gather round the conference table.
In each heart the devil sits crosslegged,
Grinning and cracking his finger joints.
And outside the door the last angel huddles its rags about it and weeps from bruised eyes. It has the same name everywhere in the world.
"The earth laughs in flowers"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roman Mosaic Unearthed - Southwark, London, UK <3 What Time Reveals (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/28/f...
Two archaeologists gently uncover a large Roman mosaic beneath a construction site near The Shard in central London. The vibrant geometric patterns, preserved underground for nearly...
I love and hate, I know not why. But I feel it, and tis agony - Catallus. The only thing I remember from 2 years of Latin.
Happy Sunday from Tuesday. 🌹
Enjoy your day. ❣️
Iranian retaliation spiralling out of control? If a country bombed Scotland, I'd spend every waking hour seeking retribution. Does vengeance have a time limit Ian?
Annie Soudain
Artist and printmaker
#Treetops Emit #Ultraviolet Sparkles During #Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time
Link for more info and photos: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Snowdrop season coming to a close for another year.
Irish Cottage.
Natasha Ray.
Art by Juan Brufal
“In the always perfect, never-ending moment of now”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story
"Vessels of the Alchemical Sun" by artist Marie Alexander
A sailing boat sales on a calm sea at dusk. The sunset reflects in the water with an orangey glow and mountains are dark in the background.
Today is Candlemas - which is a beautiful name. A chance to celebrate 'the return of light'
Artist: Roger Hall
Today is Candlemas
If you have not cleared all your Christmas decorations by today, a demon hiding behind them will cause dire mischief in your house for the rest of the year.
See my popular post on this: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Watching this horror show from Scotland and feel so helpless, but my heart is there with you brave folk. I hope karma visits those in the Whitehouse soon.
Apparently, Iceland is now on Trump's shopping list.
When I worked for the US Navy here in Scotland, I found they fell into 2 camps. Those that gave a shit, and those that didn't.
Snow Study.
Artist: Jeseni.
As usual @sandraduffy.bsky.social is absolutely right.
The UK state in Northern Ireland has quite the documented record of killing and torturing.
See also: UK war crimes and similar in Kenya, Afghanistan, and Iraq.