dog leaning against an open door, the dog is enjoying the warm sunlight. the store window features a pile of artfully arraigned goods
Christer Stromholm, Arles, France, 1949.
Alfred Munnings was associated with the Newlyn School of artists in Cornwall between 1912 and 1914; this painting captures a spring night in the historic fishing village.
Photo by G. Solecki/A. Piętak of a small figurine of a bear carved out of amber between 9600 and 4100 BC. The amber is a deep translucent orange. The display lighting makes it glow in places. The bear's head is carved to show ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes. A hole runs through the bear’s torso, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord. Dimensions: Length 10.2 cm, Height 4.2 It was discovered in Słupsk during peat mining in 1887. According to the museum catalogue ‘’Shortly after its discovery, the figure underwent conservation work to restore its original appearance as it was covered with a layer of dull patina from the exposure to the minerals contained in the peat. Already at that time, at the end of the 19th century, it was assumed the restoration had gone too far. The figure was stripped entirely of patina, the anatomical features of the animal were emphasised, the eyes and nostrils were sharply drawn, and the amber was carefully polished”. In 2013, a competition was organised by the Education Department of the National Museum in Szczecin, for children to choose a name for the bear. The winning name was ‘Słupcio’,
A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️
A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.
Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.
📷 National Museum in Szczecin
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Beautiful!
long wooden boat possibly used as funeral barge
Buried in a pit under the Great Pyramid of Giza about 4,500 years ago, this is the Khufu Ship. When first uncovered, in 1954, you could still smell the scent of the cedar wood. Now housed in the new Grand Egyptian Museum
Tuesday's moon among smokily dirty clouds, above a fiery sunset and our muddy lane.
#Cornwall
Deer last June on the old road beside the Piddletrenthide parish boundary.
Castle De Haar, outside of Utrecht, Holland - 2023 #Photography #PalacesAndGardens #ThroughTheFrame #Holland📷
Can even see them down here on the Roseland, southern coast of #Cornwall
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Patternings in the rooks over Veryan, #Cornwall.
The last of today's light.
From Perbargus, Veryan, #Cornwall
The porth or harbour of the buzzard.
birds, storks in fact nesting on a roof top, their nest is large and twiggy, one of them looks like its about to land
Storks Nesting, 1932
Sky, sea, land in December 2025.
#Cornwall
View east from Curwenna's cliffs.
Over West and East Portholland and on to the might Dodman.
The sea made milky by days of churning weather.
A foggy old railway line
Tavistock’s old railway line path a couple of Decembers ago, #Devon #ghosts #photography
Early evening the other day.
Here in Veryan Bay.
#Cornwall
A stone split and a stone spared on Staple Tor.
#Dartmoor
Thanks again, Rachel.
I've found a copy and see that Edith stayed at Dousland for a longer spell in 1905!
Looking forward to accompanying her down the lanes of your world.
Langstone circle with misty Mis Tor.
By FJ Widgery, after the circle's restoration in 1893.
#Dartmoor
(Held by Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter)
Many thanks Rachel.
I think it was this that I found online when hunting for pics yesterday, the Scottish Blackfaces and the text I found are not in the Diary!
We are lucky that she chose to stay at Dousland 120 years ago and that she described and painted what she saw so beautifully.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of a sequel so will hunt for that.
I've recently learnt that Edith Holden (Country Diary...) spent a Spring holiday in your part of the world, at Dousland in Walkhampton. Some nice descriptions and fine watercolours of a warmer and more fecund time of year.
Poppy flowers family
It’s at about this point in December when looking out at yet another dark biblical deluge that I start to get fed up with a British winter. I think I’ll post a floral illustration a day for January from my book collection .
Illustration from wild flowers of the British isles by Isobel Adams
Lovely light.
Already perched on the crest of a hill, the unusually tall crocketed pinnacles hoist this church higher.
St Mary's, Walkhampton.
Back at the beginning of summer, in May.
#Dartmoor
A lane with A Dartmoor tor in the background
Lane from Peter Tavy to Tavy. Cleave this week, I love these vignettes of the moor you see in #Devon lanes. Western #Dartmoor. #photography
Chad the goat peers over a gate and is flanked by human hands,
Ronald Dumont. 1970
A row of mossy hawthorns
Twisty hawthorns by the road to Whiteworks, Princetown last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
Two days in one frame.
November colours as a squall crosses Veryan Bay.
#Cornwall
