📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚
Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge
(4/20)
Here’s a feed cleanser.
Dogs catching treats.
I’m not sure why I’m getting such a kick out of this, but on my walk this morning, my foot slid on something laying on the sidewalk. Looking down, angry and expecting to see a pile of dog crap, I found, much to my delight, that for the first time in my life, I’d actually slipped on a banana peel.
Painting of a tabby cat in a summer meadow. Surrounded by dandelions and other flowers.
Cat in the Summer Meadow, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).
Semaphore signal SV15 on a slightly rusted post at the northern end of Stonehaven station. Another signal - on a lattice post - is visible in the background.
Semaphores at Stonehaven. 15 June 2019. #railway #photography
Stormy landscape, by Penry Williams (1802-1885)
Cow 🐄 enjoying music 💕
The painting features a portrait of a woman adorned with a flower crown, looking down towards a bird. It is created using a combination of techniques, often on Japanese paper. The artist, Katarína Vavrová, is known for her figurative work and printmaking.
titled "Fly just fly" by the Slovak artist Katarína Vavrová.
Yes! For both 'cheese on toast' and cheese toasties. So good. Especially a little garlic mayo just subtly spread under cheese. So good. 🤤
(Pre)sunrise, Thursday, 26 March, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
The skies were full of brilliant colour that gradually became grey before an actual “sunrise”, hidden by clouds.
So this is the highlight portion of the morning’s unfolding.
Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️
🔥 This male Victoria Rifle Bird (found in Queensland, Australia) trying to impress a female with his mating dance.
And Tutts is a generational family run business; lovely people who work very hard to produce quality cider. Plus they have a gaggle of awesome vintage tractors too!
Here comes the magnolia. We have a small magnolia tree and today it’s showing its first flowers of the year #plants #trees #gardens #spring
#StreetArt
Via dei Marsili, Florence
last Thursday
#Florence #Italy #murals #graffiti #StreetPhotography #scape #UrbanScape #CityScape #UrbanGaze #AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear #TagTuesday
Hey.
There’s a coffee ring on my console. It’s by a stack of records with sleeves that don’t match. One’s in the wrong jacket. Keep meaning to fix it.
Yeah...
Some nights feel better a little out of order. A little lived in.
Everything don’t gotta line up tonight.
Needle’s down.
Let it be.
Hey.
Power flickered in here about ten minutes ago. Board reset. A meter’s still acting funny. I almost called it a night.
Didn’t.
Sometimes you think you know how things are going, then something bumps the table and the needle jumps a song. The song ain’t ruined.
Just… rearranged.
After work, I usually do some personal sewing to wind down. Tonight I did something a little different -- a little kakapo painting! I think I'll keep doing little paintings, this was nice :)
Four black or black and white cats eating breakfast.
These crazy cats. All four are rescues. And of varying degrees of cuddly. Feeding time the zoo. 😉🐈⬛
Supposed to be doing stuff. Moving out of house tomorrow. Am shut down. Cant. Too much. Going to bed. Will scroll 'til eyes get sleepy, hypnotic state. Cat will bounce in, wet through, about 2am. Partner of 7yrs snoring next door. Sated; that emptied bottle of vodka wedged in crevice behind his bed.
Empty chair in darkened room, with single muted spotlight on it.
It sounds different in our wee home at night since vodka became a guest here again. The house holds its breath. I hold my breath. There isnt enough room for three of us. The guest leaves it's presence everywhere; sluggish confusion, manic conversation - but at night it suffocates with expectancy.
If only my nan hadn't died in 2009 and had moved from Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, to Silicon Valley. I reckon her "move slow and repair things" motto would have worked out much better for everyone.
😆
Love this opportunity; thank you.
How do you find courage to break the silence, after years of respecting and protecting?
How do you take the first step in that new journey?
How do you learn to thrive, after so long just barely surviving?
How do you take that feeling of being stuck in heightened alert and reset your nervous system so it can support you instead of killing you?
How do you finally move your focus back to making your own health the most important story?
This grew from my fingers tonight. I'm not sure where to release it, so leaving it to rest here for a bit.
I appreciate this. Is so beautiful here. Have found my 7yrs in Yorksha bit different though; its a vast county but feels... small? Wide open spaces but minds can be narrow like dark ancient ginnels. A mistrust of anything Other? Though mostly I'm not the Other they are talking about, apparently.
Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025!
This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X.
Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳
So of course I cannot sleep. And my elbows have gone 'floppy'. Sort of tingly and loose-limbedy in that soft inner bendy place. When my elbows go, it means Something is happening. That has been A Thing since childhood. Probably some response to chemical flash, dopamine or adrenaline? Off to google.
