Light and Shadow

Oil on panel , 16 x 12 in.

Coca-Cola (1917)

The coin a gold aureus minted in 202 A.D., the obverse bearing a portrait bust of Septimius Severus, emperor from 193-211, shown with a wreath of laurel in his wavy hair, wearing a mantle over a cuirass, inscribed SEVER P AVG P M TR P X COS III, the reverse with a facing draped portrait bust of his wife Julia Domna, framed by inward turned draped busts of their sons Caracalla, a laurel wreath in his hair, and Geta, inscribed FELICITAS SAECVLI; mounted in antiquity as a pendant in a plain gold bezel, the obverse with an openwork rosette frame, a ribbed suspension loop above.

Lupine Garden

Classic Lemon Tart Recipe

Rock Textures - Norway 2026

Little bonnet

橋本関雪

Gannets above Boreray, St Kilda

Oil on canvas , 30 x 30 in.

Hare’s-tail Cottongrass/tuvull. Värmland, Sweden (5 June 2016).

While with one of my crow pairs the little ones have already fledged, this crow is the male of a pair who has lost their first clutch, but started a second one. I hope they have more luck this time.

Necklace of Baltic Amber, 5th Century CE, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh