something rich & strange

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

[artist-henri-martin]

The Pergola, 1920, Henri Martin

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-martin/the-pergola-1920

[ullathynell]

The Dream Guide 🌒 This is the May illustration for my 2027 wall calendar. And art prints are also available!

[moonshinemaven]

Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Double Edged Love

2013

New York City

International Quilt Museum

[vintagepromotions]

Poster for the Natural History Museum in London featuring exhibits of various birds (1925). Artwork by Edward Bawden.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Sometimes there’s a wizard on your blog, and sometimes there’s a wizard in your BOG. You never know, we could be anywhere. Log

[darkwinganimus]

I wish I had a bog to my name, but alack and alas, the fens are not mine to claim in such a fashion and thus the marshland shall remain a mystery beyond my ken in it's daily workings.

[jadafitch]

Celebrate the biodiversity of Northeastern North America's bogs, with my new Bog Life of the Northeast poster. Just added to my ETSY SHOP, as well as all the original watercolor paintings. What's your favorite bog species?

[sandovers]

actually another theme for my summer reading that would really work with the season (in my head at least) is wetlands: marshes & bogs & swamps & fens. there’s soooo so many good options for that, including books i loved and have been meaning to reread, and books that have been on my tbr for a while

it was actually my plan for two summers ago but then i was too busy being ✨morbidly depressed✨

[sandovers]

finished the secret lives of country gentlemen earlier, which means i’ve now logged a book both days so far this month! it’s been a slow reading year so far mostly bc i’ve been doing a lot of embroidery and listening to a lot of podcasts, so that feels pretty good—as may be obvious from that post i made yesterday i really want to get a lot of reading done this summer.

anyways, i really liked it! one of kjc’s better recent novels imho. the swashbuckling certainly didn’t hurt, and the marsh setting did even more to endear it to me. i did come away thinking more about how good the sisters would be, as a pairing—rough, capable sophy and spoiled, still-finding-her-own-way cecy, than i did the main characters, but oh well.

have already started the sequel and am delighted to discover that it’s about luke 😭

[sandovers]

SPOILERS FOR THE PREVIOUS BOOK!!!!!! but ohhhh this one’s gonna be good isn’t it

[sophiaeck]

[leahgardner-art]

the green vase strikes again 💐 24x30 inches, oil on wood

[sandovers]

finished the secret lives of country gentlemen earlier, which means i’ve now logged a book both days so far this month! it’s been a slow reading year so far mostly bc i’ve been doing a lot of embroidery and listening to a lot of podcasts, so that feels pretty good—as may be obvious from that post i made yesterday i really want to get a lot of reading done this summer.

anyways, i really liked it! one of kjc’s better recent novels imho. the swashbuckling certainly didn’t hurt, and the marsh setting did even more to endear it to me. i did come away thinking more about how good the sisters would be, as a pairing—rough, capable sophy and spoiled, still-finding-her-own-way cecy, than i did the main characters, but oh well.

have already started the sequel and am delighted to discover that it’s about luke 😭

[perplexingly]

Legolas/Gimli sketch…

[perplexingly]

#op you can’t make me pick up the series cuz of this I’m not strong enough

they're worth reading for I swear

[fairycosmos]

jobs for women who prioritise taking it easy and chillaxing forever

[retroject]

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

[scififantasystuff]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This snower (snail shower) is joyful and whimsical! 🐌🚿

[389]

The Erlkönig Hanno Karlhuber, 1993

German, b.1946- Oil , 70 x 100 cm.

[wiltking]

if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down

[nobrashfestivity]

Marcel Marien, Star Dancer, 1991