Artist (thread painting, pencil, ink, mixed media - no AI used); voracious reader; advocate and supporter of libraries; trying to walk as lightly as possible on our beautiful land of the Pacific Northwest; accidental haiku writer. (Posts are usually deleted after six months.)
#art #embroidery #EmbroideryArt #FineArtInStitch #MastoArt #haiku #SmallPoem #NoAI #PacificNorthwest #PNW #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateJustice #nature #wildlife #libraries #FreedomToRead #reading #bookstodon
"The Caxton was very accomplished at not being noticed it. It had a way of blending into its surroundings, aided by the tendency of a great many people—some of whom should really have known better—to ignore books, or underestimate their importance and dismiss reading as a dreary pursuit, this being the natural response of the unimaginative." -- from 'Night & Day' by John Connolly
"Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil.
"The research is being presented this week at the Goldschmidt conference in Prague.
"The trees – native to Kenya – are one of the first fruit trees shown to have this ability, known as the oxalate carbonate pathway…"
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250706225819.htm
Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still yield fruit—hinting at a delicious new weapon in the climate-change arsenal.
Mountain-chill brook cuts
beside tall pines cooling a
languid summer day.
#DailyHaikuPrompt - languid
#haiku #micropoem #SmallPoem
"The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest."
#SundaySentence from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust https://tinyurl.com/2s47sx9p
In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss.
Black Swallowtail in the front garden.
#SilentSunday #Stunday #blackswallowtail #photography #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterfliesofmastodon #ButterflyAndFlowers #insect #insectphotography #zinnia #gardening
Love this beautiful little walrus I came across on a gate in the west end of Glasgow today.
#art to start 🎨
...floating colors
'Changes 1'
Artist: Jenny-Wren Price
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting
Your beloved wool jacket is safe from being turned into a snack by Larysa Bernhardt's visually striking moths which are made from velvet and/or vintage textiles. If the top wings are made with velvet, embroidery in unusual designs is added to them.
#art #EmbroideryArt #embroidery #TextileArt @fiberarts
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/larysa-bernhardt-moths/
#art to start 🎨
...street scene
'Via Bandiera from the first floor of n 67'
Artist: Francesco Cuttitta
#painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting
Hopper The Cocker
Greg Johnston
Haderach C. Kwisatch
Vicki Ziegler
Trilobyter
This Is My Glasgow