[lamignonette]

[uroko]

Jardins de Claude Monet, Giverny

[virgomoonboy]

Source: reddit.com

Aurora Australis by astronaut Chris Williams

[littlemisshelena]

[antonio-m]

Ekaterina Melnikova. "Minotaur"

[cosmicanger]

Palestinian craftsmen, Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 18th century. Olive and pistachio wood, mother-of-pearl, camel bone.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[ducissatenebrarum]

Roman portable sundial in the shape of a cured ham. The whimsical yet precision-crafted bronze timepiece was unearthed in Herculaneum in 1760 and quickly identified as a rare pocket sundial by its grid markings. The exact workings of the 'pork clock' have, however, only recently come to light thanks to new research.

Historians at Wesleyan University created an exact 3D-printed replica of the sundial, complete with its lost gnomon (the part of a sundial that casts a shadow) which was described by an 18th-century museum curator as having been in the shape of a pig’s tail.

Outdoor experimentation with the sundial confirmed that the device would be hung from a chain with the sun on its left side, allowing the pig tail to cast its shadow across the grid. Vertical lines on the grid represent the months of the year, while the horizontal lines indicate the number of hours past sunrise or before sunset.

The Roman user aligned the tip of the tail's shadow to fall on the vertical column of the current month. They then counted the number of horizontal lines from the top of the grid to the tip of the shadow, to reveal the hour of the day.

While fixed sundials were common in towns across the Roman world, this prosciutto clock is one of only around 25 portable sundials to survive from antiquity and one of the earliest known to exist.

[sueandpuresblog]

You can't see me 🐮

[horrorlesbians]

everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

[horrorlesbians]

memorial to a marriage; patricia cronin

[horrorlesbians]

“on july 24th, 2011- the first day that same sex marriage was legal in new york state, particia cronin and deborah kass got married. that same year the marble ‘memorial to a marriage’ was replaced with a bronze version. rainwater pools in the space between their two sculpted bodies, and falling leaves catch on the metal in the autumn. the two women sleep peacefully through snow and ice, and the scorching days of summer. over time the hands of cemetery visitors will wear down the bronze, burnishing it into a smooth shine. one day this will mark the final resting place of the two women. and someday people will have to remember that there was a time, long ago, when this was a memorial to a marriage that two women never thought they’d have.” 

- Caitlin Doughty, on the Death in the Afternoon podcast

[damnedifyoudeeohh-deactivated20]

For those curious:

[friendraichu]

Here’s the real-life couple in 2019 💖

[sadkazoosolo]

happy 20th anniversary (nov 3, 2002) to patricia cronin’s marble sculpture that furthered art, advocacy, and lesbian breakdowns everywhere

[florealegiardini]

My first Cafe au Lait finally made her debut and this diva didn’t come to play by 💕✨💅 Olivia Bidleman

[mybeingthere]

A recent museum acquisition by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The 2019 piece, Charmed, was acquired for the permanent collection.  ‘The tour-de-force bracelet, Charmed, featuring the work of more than 70 artists.

[rosarrie]

Huevember - 30. Zebra Plant (Succulent)

for more huevember posts

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[theinternetarchive]

chair, mahogany; overall: 96.5 x 56.5 x 50.2 cm; france c. 1900.

[enki2]

[maybeasunflower]

[cosmos-kitty]

Bug Crossing 🐛

I got the idea for this piece on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!

[rosarrie]

eucalyptus friends