My four-year-old and I stopped to check on someone who was getting arrested today.

She had made it clear that she did want help, and I checked on with my kid as well before approaching.

The police officer tried to tell me off. "Do you think this is the kind of thing you want your kid to see? Do you think this is good parenting?"

Yeah, actually! If we see something happening that seems wrong, I want my kid to see me doing something about it!

I love how artist Hillary Waters Fayle creates portraits of place by using leaves, seeds, and petals from that place to arrange stunning mandala-like pieces on acrylic or as cyanotypes. She focuses on places that are being or will shortly be radically changed by the climate crisis, wildfires, or flooding, to capture a moment in time.
#art #MixedMedia #BotanicalArt #cyanotypes

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/hillary-waters-fayle-pressed-flowers-cyanotypes/

#art to start 🎨
...pondering

'Woman Reading in a Landscape'
Artist: Camille Corot
#painting #oil #OilPainting #TraditionalArt

My mum just sent me this joke via her friend's sister. (They are all aged 74-78.)

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So Trump dies and this bloke asks where the grave is as wants to piss on it, told he has to go to Los Angeles. “Los Angeles! But he died in New York”, “Yes, but you join the queue in Los Angeles”.

And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid

#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon

blossom-filled branches
scented enchantment floating
in gossamer mists

#DailyHaikuPrompt - misty, blossoms
#haiku #SmallPoem

The Daily for 13 April 2026:
the harvest and the Strait

http://by-my-solitary-hearth.net/2026/04/13/the-daily-13-april-2026/