aliferous

✵ Ann - a quiet creature - for the love of birds and beauty. ✵ "So I conclude that space & time are things of the body & have little or nothing to do with our selves." — Emily Dickinson.

[moonlight-and-moth]

feralviolet

[kindofpurple]

Daylight saving, by Grace Q. Song

Time to watch the geese return, while snow retreats to the corners of my backyard. Time to clean because I'm sick of keeping things and making them important. All winter I wanted something to change me. I wanted to turn into a gazelle and leap out of the drought of my body. Small and lost hour, you give everything a new reason. Save me anyway.

[robert-hadley]

Photo - thewildwoodmoth

[vintagehomecollection]

The Backyard Book - Ideas and Resources for Outdoor Living, 1988

[charl0ttan]

doctor prescribed 60 years of birdsong through a morning window

[bonfires-n-hares]

Spring in the Birch Wood by George Henry (source)

[cute-cotylorhynchus]

birding tip! when you see a bird. smile :)

[kavohh707]

Another sedge warbler, this time not on a sedge, but very loudly warbling.

[robert-hadley]

The World of Interiors, July 2024. Photo - Jasper Fry

[havingapoemwithyou]

perfect song by Heather Christle

[ayrang]

Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amen-Re at Karnak Egypt (Dynasty XIX, ca. 1290-1224 BC.)

[english-history-trip]

Ring set with a wolf's tooth, 14th century

Gems have long been considered by all peoples as somehow magical because of their brilliance of colour and hardness, but other materials, such as teeth, also had magical properties.

This ring has the hoop engraved with two inscriptions, providing double the power; one a magic formula, the other a biblical phrase. The magical charm: ‘BURO + BERTO + BERNETO’ is to protect against toothache; the tooth set in the bezel may well have been expected to contribute to the prophylactic power of the words. The biblical phrase 'CONSUMMATUM + EST' are the last words Christ spoke on the Cross, and were used as a charm to calm storms.

As this ring is large, it is probably it belonged to a man, and as storms would endanger the wearer only when at sea, it has been suggested that a travelling merchant who undertook many sea voyages might be a possible candidate for ownership.

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, [her] dresses and the way she laughed.”

— Albert Camus, from The Stranger (Hamish Hamilton, 1946)

[fripperiesandfobs]

Evening dress by Bruyère ca. 1953

From Tessier-Sarou

[alifeingrain]

Bath, Somerset - November 2020 Rolleicord Vb on Lomography 400

[soul-luminnous-eyes]

Chris van der Windt, 1877-1952

Sleeping Cat, n/, drawn, 13.3x14.5 cm

Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden Inv. S 1333

[toasthaste]

JUMPING SPIDERS CAN SEE THE MOON

[toasthaste]

OH this is the book where that line from Posts is from, about how jumping spiders are born with all their photoreceptors which get bigger and more sensitive with age and for a jumping spider getting older is like watching the sun rising.....