fletchpj @fletchpj@qoto.org

A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the "modern" book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://buff.ly/36aQW24

#books #bookcover #bookcovers #bookart #coverart #art #illustration #bookillustration #booklovers #bibliophile #bookshelves #art #bookshelf #bookporn #bookaddict #histodon

Geometry in nature. ⚙️⚙️⚙️

Cobwebs fine as angel hair in the frosty cemetery today.
#GothicAdvent

Beautiful “piglets” as Italians like to call the King Boletus mushrooms or in Italian “porcini”
#mushrooms
#fungi
#nature
#photography

Stairway in an abandoned button factory.

I reckon this cold snap could be the end of mushrooms in the #woods for the year, but this moss-covered fallen willow tree was host to quite the display a few days ago #mushtodon #Mosstodon #woodland #FungiFriday

Frozen lighthouse on Lake Michigan shore by Thomas Zakowski

#photography #winter #lighthouse

First took a photograph at this spot years ago as a 'weather picture' for the newspaper for which I was working.
It's a rural country lane, near Penshaw, Sunderland and for a week or two either side of the Winter Solstice, the sun sets in just the right spot.
It was absolutely freezing here this afternoon, but thankfully, the air was still, so no added wind chill.

#Winter #Sunderland #snow #landscape #photography

330 million year old perfection - a wee crinoid ossicle that beautifully highlights their five-fold (pentaradial) symmetry. There’s also a tiny fragment of bryozoan in the bottom right 🖤
#ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology #Palaeontology

Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

I have a dilemma, should I #hashtag this for #FungiFriday or #FrostyFriday or #FrostyFungiFriday ?

Meadow Waxcaps - Cuphophyllus pratensis #fungi #photo #photography #friday

Friday Flyday! Here’s a bee-mimicking robber fly (Laphria) feeding on a honey bee it has killed.

#FridayFlyday #Diptera #nature #insects

No matter our differences, we can all try to get along...

#Heron #kingfisher #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography

In honour of tonight's gorgeous #FullMoon, here is one of my favourite Japanese #ukiyoe prints: 'Bat Before the Moon' - Biho Takashi, 1910.
#JapaneseArt #japodon #bat #moon

🌳Artist: #DoraIllustra + #murallstudio in City: #Poznan #Jeżyce Wawrzyniaka /Słowackiego, Poland 🇵🇱 - (📷 by murallstudio) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Graffiti #Artwork

2-million yr-old #DNA from N #Greenland reveals that the region was once home to #mastodons, lemmings, hares & geese. The breakthrough pushes the DNA record back by 1m years to when the #Arctic region was 11-19C warmer than today, with flower-filled grassy #glades & #forests of poplar & birch, & offers unprecedented insights into how climate changes can shape ecosystems.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/07/dna-from-2m-years-ago-reveals-lost-arctic-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In Ainu folklore akkorokamui is a red octopus so huge it can swallow ships whole. Its bright red body turns the ocean red and ships know to avoid the sea during this time. This #yokai was both feared and revered as a god.
#DailyFolklore #JapaneseFolklore #japodon #ukiyoe #folklore @folklore
🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. Utagawa Hiroshige