A Great Blue Heron takes flight. It's wings are concave as it is lifting into flight.
I saw a nice Great Blue Heron yesterday. I kept clicking as he departed and got a shot where the wings are perfectly concave. Fun, fun click to get!
#birds #GreatBlueHeron
“Peaceful Moments”
acrylic on canvas
The Secret College
#joncarling #drawing #art
Pencil drawing of a wren.
Good morning.
Feeling very young - i.e. not like an old lady.
Mouse sat on mossy tree root surrounded by violets, painting.
🖼️ Dick Twinney
I was delighted to hear the "sweet-sweet-I'm-so-sweet" song of the Northern Yellow Warbler in my backyard marsh yesterday. Two of them were singing; perhaps they having a sing-off to see who gets to nest in the area.
Illustration of a hare with red accents and pierced through the chest with two arrows.
hare
[ #art ]
Saturday Laundry #4
The emergence of Suzie, the low-altitude but high-volume Bluebird of Happiness:
Motifs also appearing in other recent reads: the personhood of robots, colonialism, reasons to avoid sewers.
Cover of Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz. Illustration of a yellow robot arm and hand using chopsticks to lift several tentancular noodles from a steaming dish. The noodles are a gradient of red to magenta. The dish is orange, as are a cluster of buildings, pots and pans, and a rendering of the Golden Gate Bridge. A couple of other yellow robots and robot limbs holding cooking utensils perch among the buildings. The background is a bright aqua.
Book forty-three:
Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz, audio performed by Em Grosland
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Photo of a small yellow mushroom. The edges of the cap and the cap ridges are brown. Camera is looking upward, underneath the cap. The photo background is blue sky.
Basidiolichen, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Mushroom is about 3cm (little over an inch) high.
Motifs also appearing in other recent reads: Dead parents, divided loyalty
Cover of Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn. Illustration of a Black girl from the hips up, facing the viewer. She has a mass of dense dark curls and a serious expression. Her arms are raised in front of her. Her left arm is held at shoulder height and is breathed in red lines of energy. Her left arm is held at waist height and is covered in swirls of blue energy.
Book forty-two:
Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn
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Motifs also appearing in other recent reads: dead parents, deadbeat parents, enabling, conflict avoidance framed as people-pleasing.
Cover of The Night We Met, by Abby Jimenez. Illustration of two people and a dog sitting on the dock of a lake watching fireworks. It's either sunset or the fireworks are hella bright, because the sky is bright pink and orange at the center and blue and purple at the edges. The lake is edged by pine trees. The man is sitting to the right facing away from the viewer. He wears a blue hoodie and dark blue trousers. He has short brown hair and is looking towards the woman. The woman is to the right and is facing away from the viewer. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a grey short-sleeved shirt and blue trousers. She is looking at the lake. Her right hand is covered by the man's left hand. The dog is a small white terrier to the woman's left.
Book forty-one:
The Night We Met, by Abby Jimenez
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A small yellowish-green songbird (juvenile yellow finch) is perched on a bare tree branch, facing to the left. Green leaves are framing the image along the top and out of focus green leaves are in the background.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Woodland (birds you might find in woodlands near you) we have a young Yellow Warbler in a local forest. Also conveniently meets the Alt theme #juveniles!
#birds #photography
boardwalk benches adjustable, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
boardwalk benches adjustable, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
Speckled gray shorebird called a willet on the beach.
Willet on the beach with his prize. He’s in his speckled breeding plumage. 🪶🌿
A tiny golden-crowned kinglet perched on a branch of a tree with buds coming in, in profile view looking to the right. You can just see the golden crown down the centre of its head.
A perky looking Golden-crowned Kinglet at our pond a couple of days ago. #birds #birding #Ancaster #HamOnt
A wintery landscape with brown-grey colour scheme
Cold spring in Liaoning. Two anchiornithids fighting. Tianyulong unbothered.
"Damp folds of her femininity"
No. Absolutely not.
Cover of It Happened One Summer, by Tessa Bailey. A white man stands to the left and a white woman stands to the right against a dark blue background. The man has shart dark hair under a red beanie and a dark beard. He wears a white long-sleeved shirt, light blue jeans, and light brown work boots. His arms are crossed and he is looking at the woman. The woman has orangey-blonde wavy hair falling to just past her shoulders. She is wearing a red mini dress with a ruffle on one shoulder and white high heels. She has one hand propped on her hip and is looking at the man. Between them is a small red and white lighthouse.
Book forty:
It Happened One Summer, by Tessa Bailey
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(Not recommended)
Close up photo of a Cladonia podetium that looks like a golf tee…if the bowl at the top of the tee had a wide brim and where the inside and outside rims of the brim were dotted with tiny red blobs. The lichen is cream coloured except for the red blobs.
Cladonia #lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. The lichen in the pic is about 3cm high. #fungi #fungifriends
Mouse sailing in tea cup using teaspoon as an oar. Painting.
Hello Thursday.
🖼️ DD McInnes
'Look Up' as an alternative Daily Rothno
Digital illustration of a lighthouse on a little island in the middle of the sea during a starry night.
#repostyourart day 9: light(house)
This is super old, from October 2023! I’ve sold a ton of prints of this one until I retired it from the shop last year. You can literally see how much
I’ve improved :) but I still love it!
#illustration #art
Golden light over the hills of Tuscany…
木陰のバイクとトゥクトゥク
#Peradeniya #photography #Nikon #Z50Ⅱ
