irish goodnight

when I imagine myself I am always leaving. I couldn’t draw my own face if god asked

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Icarus by Owen Gent

[thingsfromthedirt]

'Birdy Mine' sterling silver puffy heart charm engraved GL (ca. 1930s-40s)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Of course she was unnoticed by them, just as a swallow or a wild-rose were unnoticed.

He knew her secret then, for she had told it to him. It was his own secret too. They were akin, as the birds and animals were akin. They belonged together in some free and open life, natural, wild, untamed.

– Algernon Blackwood, from “The Touch of Pan,” The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (British Library)

[creditednature]

Eagles, raven, and a magpie gathering to carrion, captured on a trail cam

[dog-teeth]

God's First Failed Angel Lived in the Garden As a Bird

carved bluestone, ~12"x11"

[lamignonette]

[imifos]

the wounded angel by hugo simberg, 1903

[burntundertones]

[inlovewiththemooon]

Masochism of the Pure

[sandmoonyelse]

[imperhius]

[derangedrhythms]

Irina Odoyevtseva,  20th Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel; from ‘Ground Glass’, tr. Bradley Jordan

[moradura]

sea - Hachinohe City, 1990

by Daido Moriyama

[fourhumorous]

Stephen Gill, "The Pillar", 2015 - 2019

[nevver]

Fear of flying, Lucy Glendinning

[nemfrog]

Mountain-land. 1906. Endpaper. Walter King Stone, illus. 

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Here are the vintage crows, ravens, and blackbirds we’ve spoken with.

[hoot-alex]