Julé Cunningham

@JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden
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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

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/

From Velvet and Vintage Textiles, Larysa Bernhardt Embroiders Otherworldly Moths

Larysa Bernhardt uses vintage tapestries, needlepoint, and lush velvet to embroider mystical, textile moth sculptures.

Colossal
@carolannie This makes me smile. Our family's cats used to do this to my sister's golden retriever until he finally had enough and tucked his tail between his legs.
@thisismyglasgow What a lovely surprise to come across.

My bee balm went kaput last yr so I planted this native scarlet bee balm (likely Monarda didyma) last fall. Plant was so robust I was able to take clippings early on & start more plants in my 2nd garden. Hopefully I won't go without again🤞.

#PhotoHour #BloomScrolling #flowers #Photography #AltText

languid summer days
slow to wake, quickly they pass
stretching like a cat

#DailyHaikuPrompt

metal_0040 (a tribute to my grandfather) https://parentheticalrecluse.com/blog/202507121045 #metal #art

#art to start 🎨
...the watcher

'Owl'
Artist: Huang Yongyu
#painting #ink #InkPainting
(click to see full work)

Once there were songs for everything,
Songs for planting, for growing, for harvesting,
For eating, getting drunk, falling asleep,
For sunrise, birth, mind-break, and war.
For death (those are the heaviest songs and they
Have to be pried from the earth with shovels of grief).
Now all we hear are falling-in-love songs and
Falling apart after falling in love songs.
The earth is leaning sideways
And a song is emerging from the floods
And fires. Urgent tendrils lift toward the sun.
You must be friends with silence to hear.
The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—
They are the most rare.
-- 'Singing Everywhere' by Joy Harjo from 'An American Sunrise'

#FridayPoem #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry

(Art credit: Hung Duong)

I got out for a paddle. being on the water always makes the world feel right again
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@bookstodon A completely fascinating look at those creatures we new-kids-on-the-block humans wouldn't and couldn't even exist without - plants.

The author, a journalist, spoke to a number of plant scientists, visited their labs, and went out into the field with them. She learns and shares what they have discovered about particular plants, and explores the questions and ideas those findings turn up. Zoë Schlanger's enthusiasm and curiosity are catching and it's easy to lose yourself in the world of plants.

As for the plants themselves, it's amazing what observation and research is uncovering about all their different stories, and humbling to realize how much we don't know. Highly recommended.
#BookReview #reading #botany #plants #bookstodon

@JD_Cunningham @bookstodon I'll second that! It's a great read.
@IzzyChambers One that I will go back again I'm sure.
@JD_Cunningham I haven’t read, but have come across this one, it sounds very interesting. Does it read like a text book or more story like?

@Likewise It definitely doesn't read like a textbook, Schlanger writes well and organizes the material well. There's a lot of information packed in, and for those that want to look at more technical sources, those are provided at the back of the book. But I found it difficult to put down at times, it is so interesting.

If you do pick it up I'd love to know your thoughts.

@JD_Cunningham That’s good to hear. I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, so when one grabs my attention, I usually will read it.