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My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’. Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday!

Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍

From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC.

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📷 by me

#Archaeology

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A very interesting read.
Thank you.

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Coco, enjoying the sun. I love her white, long whiskers.

The #caturday files.
Coco.

The 60-80 cm racy inflorescence of the Aloe arborescens is erected and simple. The raceme is conical 20-30 cm by 10-12 cm in diameter, bearing many yellow/orange flowers.

The 60-80 cm racy inflorescence of the Aloe arborescens is erected and simple. The raceme is conical 20-30 cm by 10-12 cm in diameter, bearing many yellow/orange flowers.

For Christmas this year, all the Aloe arborescens are flowering.
We are in the southwest of France.
Yes, climate is changing, fast.

The façade of the Saint-Gervais church in Paris is a fine example of early 17th-century French classicism.

Église Saint-Gervais, Paris.
Seen from the Memorial Garden
for the terrorist attacks on November 13th, 2015.

On the mansion by the master watchmaker, Alphonse Blanc made in 1840, a very beautiful meridian of Average time, with a pierced disc, and analemma. The meridians of Paris and Turin are engraved on it. At that time, Savoy was not yet attached to France. The oblique lines are aligned with the signs of the Zodiacs where the sun enters the sign with the date of the 1st day of the month. A disc with eyelet was welded to an arrow supported by a foot decorated with stars.

@astrolabe-science.fr
I took this photo for you !
I wish you a wonderful Christmas Day.

The cathedral houses the largest set of trompe-l'oeil paintings in Europe (nearly 6,000 m2).

The cathedral houses the largest set of trompe-l'oeil paintings in Europe (nearly 6,000 m2).

The nave of Chambéry Cathedral, Savoie, France.
15th century, flamboyant gothic style.

Thank you 🙏

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The future has flown away

My son has left

To embrace the vast sky

Pierre-Louis, 1991-2025

Despite a construction of the choir, then of the nave, spread over about thirty years, the architecture of the building offers a remarkable uniformity, clearly visible at the level of the piles and the vault. The Gothic architectural style is enriched with a Renaissance ornamentation, in a very harmonious marriage. A magnificent jube (rood screen), the only one left in Paris, cuts the building in two. Architectural and artistic feat, its design dates from the early 1530s. The tribune, nine meters long, is supported by a basket-ended vault that culminates at four meters. A typical ornamentation of the early Renaissance (the écoinçons) is combined with the classical Gothic style of the railing and stairs, a style not without a Mooorish influence.

Paris.
Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.
The rood screen.
(Alt for details).

The nave-transept crossing is one of the masterpieces of this church, built around 1584-1586. This vault is a magnificent example of the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance style. The thirds that divide the space are gothic, as are the hanging keys and the openwork discs with fine chisels that furnish these spaces. The other motifs of ornamentation are totally Renaissance. The artistic fantasy of the whole is typical of the late 16th century. The central hanging key has a height of 2.40 meters. It is kept in balance almost five meters below the top of the vault thanks to curved links stiffened by an invisible metal reinforcement, present from the origin.

Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, built from 1492 to 1626. Here, the nave-transept crossing.
(Alt for details)

A panoramic photo taken from the edge of a pond. The various plants and tree species that border this body of water offer a beautiful palette of greens. The sky is blue with some cumulus clouds reflected in the water.

It was a picnic with a view.
West of Paris.
📷 🌞 🍀 🌳

Lost Album Covers of the 70s for @cerishields.bsky.social

The view from the top of our garden, by the terrasse. On the right is the pond. The left path leads to a pergola, the right path to the arch, which opens onto the orchard. The vegetable plot is set at the bottom of the land, by the tree line where a river flows.

The garden vista.
Lush greens.
Peacefulness.

🏡 ⛲️ 🌳 🪴 🫜

A swallow on an electricity cable, with a clear blue sky

The swallows have returned in large numbers this week.
Such beautiful birds.

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The facade of an 18th century building in the Santa Maria Maior district, covered in azulejos. Lisbon, Portugal.

At the top center of the photo, a blue iris in full bloom, several others in the background. At the edge of a pond, the sky is blue with a few small clouds.

The dominant color in the garden this week.

Spring is an opportunity for the mind.

#spring #iris
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The body is blue-green metallic iridescent and the eyes blue-green. The female has brown and fairly dark iridescent wings, adorned with a small white spot near the end. Its abdomen is blue with a bronze part at the end.

A beautiful visitor while gardening : a female Calopteryx virgo.

In the pond of our garden, a happy frog again, this time croaking, in video.
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A slab show some fossilised Echinoids their spines. One of the echinoids has his Aristoteles lantern. The slab is 22 x 12 cm.

Joyeux anniversaire !!

Here are some echinoids with spines (Acrosalenia hemicidaroides), middle Jurassic.
From Landaville, Vosges, France.

A poliste feasting on the flowers of an Euphorbia myrsinites.

The Euphorbia myrsinites is a feast for some polistes.
☀️ 🐝 🌸

A male green frog sunbathing in a pond.

A female green frog sunbathing in a pond.

We have some very happy (and very noisy) frogs in the pond.
And hundreds of tadpoles.
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The center of a flowerbed in my courtyard shows in the foreground a flowering Euphorbia myrsinites. Just behind, with a disc of white marble pebbles at its base, my first homemade bonsai. All around are different succulents. The different and rich shades of green, together, are visually attractive.

Spring starts here when my Euphorbia myrsinites is in bloom.
Lush greens 💚

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The ballet of the cranes.
Elegance and endurance.

Josh is here! 🤩