G. E. Schwartz

A toad is face on to the camera. It is caught in the flash from a camera, so the background is dark and its features are fully-lit.

A toad is slightly side-on to the camera. It is caught in the flash from a camera, so the background is dark and its features are fully-lit.

Just been out for the last dog walk and saw these two rather fine-looking chaps (or chapesses?) on the path. Went back out with the camera, turned on the flash, pointed, and hoped for the best. Came out better than I expected!

A perfectly balanced atom just broke one of nuclear physics’ biggest rules Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number of protons equals the number of neutrons. For decades, these strange regions...

oh! oh! jail for atom! jail for atom for One Thousand Years!!!!

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Face of mystery man found dead in Claerwen Reservoir reconstructed Detectives hope the new facial reconstruction images will end an 18-month mystery.

It still blows my mind when someone is found dead and there's no obvious match to a missing person report. No friends, no colleagues, no family, have reported the absence of a great big bloke who liked swimming?

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Contains; Jazz. Jokes. Nazis. The IRA. More jokes. Kinder Transport. Transport Caffs. Lenny Bruce. Samuel Beckett. Bits. Estate Agents. Harold Pinter. More jokes. Accidentally getting famous. Top of The Pops. Top of The Form. Stanislavski. Peter Cook. Peter Sutcliffe. "I wouldn't open with it".

a Butterbur beauty flowering in a damp ditch near the river Test in north Hampshire .. Petasites hybridus

Photo of wrenthrush. Description from ebird: ‘A strange little understory bird, unmistakable if seen well. Plump and very short-tailed, like a small antpitta or wren. Mostly gray with olive back; most distinctive feature is orange crown. Sexes alike. Found in high-elevation forests from 1500m to treeline, often around bamboo, and always close to the ground. Listen for high, thin calls.’

Wren of the Day:
Wrenthrush
📷 Leonardo Valverde

Daffodil flowers emerging

Here they come!!!

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#nerostorches #hendryksiemradzki #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

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#lecalvaire #gustavedore #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

Maximum Dutch still life. Every type of flower, fruit, mammoth shells, ruins, classical palace... Balthasar van der Ast, what were you on when you painted this?

Gorgeous display of flowers by Balthasar van der Ast of Middelburg who (alas!) died OTD in 1657.

There are more blue flowers in Spring, from ‘Found Poem’ (The Honest Ulsterman) There are more blue flowers in Spring. Winter has passed. The ancient tower is abeyant.Trees rush to cover it. Dwarf irises and hyacinths,lift their powdered arms.Narcissi crowned, ignores them. A …

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First published, The Honest Ulsterman, "Found Poem, Spring" at www.humag.co/poetry/found...
#Archives #Spring #BookPoems

Kimono (kosode), Japon, 1840-1860, satin de coton (menjusu) de Chine, teinture par réserve, application de pâte de riz au pochoir (katazome), 150,5 x 120,5 x 27,5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

#sciencesonnetsaturday

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'Crocus' by Raymond C. Booth 1962 An oil painting in dark, muted tones. Purple crocuses growing up from the ground covered in dead leaves, with a bird skull resting among the young flowers.

If you were life, my darling,
And I your love were death,
We'd shine and snow together
Ere March made sweet the weather
With daffodil and starling
And hours of fruitful breath;
If you were life, my darling,
And I your love were death.

– A. Swinburne, 'A Match' 1866

#booksky #art #march #spring

#thefloorscrapers #gustavecaillebotte #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck conducted over email, Sep-Oct 2025       Leslie Kaplan is a French poet, playwright, and novelist. From the beginning of her career, Kapla...

newly posted: Against "the civilization of cliché" : Leslie Kaplan, interviewed by David Buuck / @akpress.org @pamenarpress.bsky.social ;
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#Lent #thedemons #dostoevsky a conclusion

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#judasiscariot #saschaschneider #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

Observing the bird behaviour of two nesting heron birds. The heron on the right was flying back and forth collecting nesting material. When the heron returned to the nest, joy and love was exchanged.

The world is in need of a little more love. 🐦

#UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #GreyHeron #Nature #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Sonyalpha

#BookOfRevelation #NotCodedforCurrentEvents #notUsbutRome

#PoetryForLent #elizabethbishop #meditation

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#childrestingunderflowers #juanvanderhamenyleon #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

#lent #thedemons #dostoevsky part 5

We are losing stars one streetlight, one neon sign, one suburb at a time For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
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