PHOTO OF THE DAY. George Dyler, champion beer drinker, downs a pint in 4 seconds (1954). 📷 David Steen

Mouse sailing in tea cup using teaspoon as an oar. Painting.

Hello Thursday.
🖼️ DD McInnes

Painting of Robin feeding young perched on branch surrounded by long grass, buttercups and wild roses.

Morning.
🖼️ Raymond Booth

Snowdrops, ladybird, leaf litter, woodland floor, painting.

🖼️ Josef Lauer

Thrush and yellow crocuses, cloudy sky and tree in background, painting.

🖼️ Raymond Booth

Hellebore painting.

Green Hellebore, Raymond Booth.

Night sky, full moon, magpies roosting, golden key buried beneath a tree, painting.

Goodnight.
Apple Tree: Seven for a Secret, Catherine Hyde.

Daffodils, foliage and purple flowed with little brown bird perched on branch, painting.

Morning.
🖼️ Raymond Booth

Snowdrops, hellebores, blackbirds, painting.

🖼️ Lucy Grossmith

Crows perched on branches in immediate foreground, large house in background, grey sky, painting.

🖼️ Becca Stadtlander

I don't exist when you don't see me...

The Great Orme

#BookSky💙📚

PHOTO OF THE DAY: A forlorn statue overlooks the devastated city of Dresden (1945). 📷 Richard Peter

MY DAYS WITH THE FAIRIES: ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND DULAC Red cover with gold lettering and decoration; fairy with gold swirls and foliage and flowers at the top of the cover.

Book Cover of the Day:

Back book cover featuring a silhouette design. It is a black silhouette illustration against a teal blue background. The design depicts tree branches with leaves, a small cottage on a hill, and several birds in flight and perched on branches.

Back of dust jacket of a book.

Two goldfinches feeding on Sowthistle. Yellowy green background.

One of my favourite birds to paint. Goldfinches and Sowthistle from a few years ago. Oil on paper.

I think I spotted a 75p reduction in price earlier too… 👇

Illustration is attributed to the English School (19th century) or published by L. Prang & Co. Little sparrows huddle beneath flowers and foliage as snow falls.

Morning.
Birds Beneath White Flowers in Winter, c.1875.

The Japanese Pheasant (top right), introduced as a game bird, inter-breeds freely with the common pheasant from which it differs principally in the pale rump and green underparts. The Lady Amherst's Pheasant (top left) from Tibet and Burma, has been imported frequently as an ornamental bird, and escapes from collections such as that at Woburn account for its occasional occurrence in the wild state. This applies also to the Silver or Kalij Pheasant (lower left) from South East Asia, the hen of which is crested and distinctively plumaged. The large Reeves's Pheasant (lower right) from Northern China has been established occasionally in Scotland and elsewhere. ~ description taken from Midland Bank series of illustration

Morning.
🖼️ John Leigh Pemberton

Painting of snow queen in grey gown in snowy landscape with cane, trees, stream, two rabbits.

The Snow Queen, Thomas Bromley Blacklock, 1902.

Painting as described, ladybird on one leaf.

🖼 Woodland floor with Snowdrops, Josef Lauer, C19th.

Thrush perched on branch of mistletoe amongst foliage on black background with gold decoration.

Morning.
🖼️ The Darkling Thrush, Catherine Hyde.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1968) 📷 Dan Poush

Hare and woodcock in snow scene, wood engraving.

🖼️ The Depths of Winter,
Colin See-Paynton.

The irony really because I might have written this as a message to myself at the moment.

Robin perched on snowy branch, pine forest in background, illustration.

🖼️ John Gerrard Keulemans

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Janis Joplin at Woodstock (1969). 📷 Elliott Landy

Robin perched on branch of foliage, detail, painting.

Morning.
Unknown, C19th, detail.

Book Cover of A Christmas Carol, mid brown coloured decorated with repeating pattern of candles and Holly, title is in a wreath of Holly.

Book Cover of the Day:

Basil and Dunnock perched around tree base with lily. Painting.

Morning.
🖼️ Robin and Dunnock, Basil Ede.

"Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow"

(TS Eliot)

🎨 Eyvind Earle

#wintersky