Susan McCreery

Bit teary here too, Gordon.

man in a very small submarine

Popping up the shops

"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

A tall water tower with a painted Heron with flowers in its feathers

A giant White-Faced Heron graces the Hillston Water Tower, near the Lachlan River, in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia

#HeronArt by Krimsone and Alex Grilanc. www.australiansiloarttrail.com/hillston

Palace Pier, Brighton. Fog, mist hiding this Grade II* listed 1899 seaside structure.

9 March 2026
#brighton

My photo shows a Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. Octopus detail from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures, including the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish, at the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Boy showing man to his blue hotel room door on backing w a few hung plants

Man in outdoor Tea cafe managed by a woman in black serving 3 other locals

Woman on roof hanging clothes. Another looks out window. Green Forrest on mountain side behind her

Man in black sits on step of nook next to chicken and wood ladder

Blues & greens in Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us which takes place in Darreh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. An amazing setting

Michael Winkler, author of Griefdogg, in conversation with Beejay Silcox Join us at Paperchain for an in conversation with author Michael Winkler and book critic Beejay Silcox

If you are in Our Nation's Capital or know someone who is. One month from tomoz.

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Otis the black cat looks moody among a frame of flowers

Sarah, how's the writing going?

Wellll I started taking pictures of my cat as if she was getting married, so, yeah. I mean, great.

We don't deserve this one.

another voice comes to mind:

“My plays are first endured, then written, then constructed. The architecture comes last. I only write what I have lived, felt and suffered in my own skin or from bathing in the stream of human life… Truth is always the greatest protest.”

— Lispector, Too Much of Life

Turquoise seaglass shaped a bit like a heart

Turquoise seaglass with silver setting

Found a beautiful piece of turquoise seaglass that looks a little like a heart and turned it into a pendant #Shetland

Of course you can't.🫂

Blue (purple!) ginger, mostly buds, but with one flower opening, showing its yellow centre. Background greenery is ferns.

New yellowish flower spike Banksia integrifolia, first to appear on this plant approx 2 years after planting. Bought as tubestock.

Pink begonia.

Cordyline stricta, a rainforest plant native to Australia. Small purple flowers on long stalks dangle from the plant, some still in bud, some open, showing yellow-tipped stamens.

This week's #FlowerReport comes to you from my garden. Couple of purples in there for this 8 March.☂️

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I am so very sorry.💔What a beautiful tribute to Persephone Scamps. LOVE her stealing hair ties & drowning them in her water bowl.😭 It's so hard.

'The Octopus', a 23-line poem by Judith Beveridge that describes the moment the poet witnesses a fisherman hook an octopus, treating it with disdain, tossing it to his mate who 'props it on his head like a court jester'. The poet doubts they 'considered its pain...or thought about its nine brains firing with action potential...so much fear spiking through its body...when no cloak of ink could make it disappear'.

'I hurry along the pier to tell the fisherman the octopus/has three hearts, nine brains, that it solves problems,/uses tools...'

Unbearably moving poem by Judith Beveridge. First prize in the 2025 Robert Gray comp.

A small frog in the spout of a green watering can.

🌱 I wondered why the water wasn't flowing out of the watering can spout properly! Hello little frog! 🐸 #Gardening #AustralianWildlife

A color photo taken at night of a storefront glowing in the misty marine layer, reflecting off of the wet pavement. A silhouette of a man looking at his phone is to the right of the frame, patiently waiting his turn at a table in a nearby restaurant.

The misty glow of signage and storefronts along the seawall, and impatient patrons waiting for a table.
It’s nice to just wander around listening to the waves in the background.

📸: Depoe Bay, Oregon

Swimmer's view from the ocean's suface to a green headland dotted with Norfolk pines that are reflected on the water. Sky is speckled with clouds. Bulli, NSW, yesterday.

A warmer yesterday.

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Just some little silverye having a bath

#birds #birdbath #aussiebirds #nikon #smallbirdsaturday

Side view of an orchid flower that is generally green with some red markings. The orchid's petals and sepals are long with two swept dramatically upwards and two pointing downwards

Caladenia falcata - the Fringed Mantis Orchid

To me, this orchid exudes drama with those upswept sepals and a broad labellum that is tipped slightly back. Endemic to Western Australia and flowering from late August.

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomsscrolling

A kitten sitting near a big flower pot.

It's #Caturday

Katharine Hepburn, partially in-costume, on a bike.

Katharine Hepburn on-location in London for George Cukor's LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, which debuted on ABC #OTD in 1975.

"A city seen from a bicycle is an entirely different city," Kate once said. #FilmSky #TCMParty

You're most welcome.💚

Cooling off in the drift and sway on this summery Saturday.

Snowdrops blooming among blooming lilac heather

Spring 💚

Using a white pencil to bring out some of the fur highlights in this red squirrel. I saw him/her again today, high in the tree canopy, avoiding my camera … #SciArt #WildlifeArt