I recently learned that licorice ferns (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) often live on bigleaf maple trees (Acer macrophyllum). The ferns come out this time of year when the maples drop their leaves and let the light through. I had always admired this kind of moss monster, but I am only now realizing they are almost all maples. 💚
Please appreciate this 3 hour time lapse I took this morning of a Pleated Inkcap (maybe???) blooming in my succulent pot!
#BOTD author William Hope Hodgson. His years as a sailor informed many of his early horror stories. He would later pioneer cosmic and dystopian horror, with influential works like The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. He also created occult detective, Thomas Carnacki. #books
#ghosts #bookstodon #horror
Central aircraft station at Notre-Dame.
From "Le vingtième siècle" written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: 1883 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/aircraft-station/
Samhain / Halloween vibes at Fourwinds yesterday, the walls are the remains of a school built for the nearby quarry worker’s children.
#Dartmoor #Devon #photography #autumn
American Dipper hunting for Kokanee Salmon eggs, Taylor Creek, Lake Tahoe. #laketahoe #salmonrun #BirdPhotography
Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with the head of a toad, a man, and a cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defining-the-demonic/
Day 26: Mask
I found this little guy on a tomb in the tiny village of Wherwell (where the myth of the Cockatrice came from) and loved him so thought I’d make him into a print. Not sure of his origins other than that!
#Mask #MDWC24D26 #Halloween #Costume #TrickorTreat #spookyseason #October #Drawing #Illustration #printmaker #Print #gold #black #graveyard #grave #tomb #spooky #guardian #linocut #goth #gothic #gargoyle
Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlas-des-champignons/
Pied-billed Grebe with minnow. This little one kept me entertained in the moonlight before dawn on Saturday, I was glad it stuck around for some actual decent shooting light! 😆
Taylor Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA
Pictures taken this week at Burrator reservoir and from Tavistock viaduct, it’s looking a lot like Autumn 🍂, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography #mosstodon
Biologist working in science publishing for 20+ years. Favourite reads: weird fiction; favourite walks: fern-clad lanes in Cornwall; favourite bands: currently King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Interested in terrariums, park runs, natural world and fiction writing.