fool/fooler/foolest

A storm rolls over Late Cretaceous Hateg island, nourishing the land and drenching the local wildlife. Featuring: Tethyshadros, Hatzegopteryx, Paludititan, Balaur bondoc, an Enantiornithine, Sabresuchus, and many other critters.

The Wren babies started hatching last night, and then this cute scene happened. The male came over with a snack, and he would not give it to the female, he wanted to feed them himself. These birds can be tiny tyrants but they are also super adorable at times. I only did minor edits here because it is kind of sweet to see him taking so much time when outside they are the quickest, sneakiest little things.

Egg tempera on gesso board , 22 x 24 cm. 56 x 61 in.

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Dies überstanden haben: auch das Glück", trans. Wally Swist

– Mark Valentine, from “The Pale Sentinels of Asphodel,” The Book of Flowering: An Anthology (Egaeus Press, 2019)

Murakami Gyojin  1950s

All of these were found at either the InternetArchive, HathiTrust, or Google Books.

Internet Archive

— Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

Oil on wood , 90 x 60 cm.

Ardea cinerea

Alberto Regueira (Cuban, 1994) - Reborn (2022)

Corey Arnold, Entrapment, 2015

1st snow 14 Nov

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

a crashed car in the vineyards north of LA

— José Saramago, tr. by Tim Crosfield, from his nobel speech c. 1998