The Curiosity Shop

Taken on Friday. A grackle and the moon

Ensemble. ca. 1850. Credit line: Gift of Charlotte Church Collins, in memory of my mother, Alice Slocum Church, 1976 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/108171

montage of a spectacled owl meeting my barn owl shawl at the ren faire today

Getty Museum

It's time for Trilobite Tuesday! While searching the outcrops of Alabama’s 515 million-year-old Rome Formation, scientists made a remarkable discovery. They uncovered fossil trackways, known as Cruziana, which indicated that some olenellid trilobites—such as Mesonacis georgiensis—had started journeying onto land… or at least onto sea-adjacent tidal flats, perhaps in search of food or to deposit their eggs, before quickly returning to the relative safety of their maritime homes.

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - Chat sur un fauteuil

Katarina Shukshina

La Mode illustrée, no. 22, 30 mai 1920, Paris. Robe de foulard uni. Plissée a petits plis couchés; paletot en serge brodée. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

social media relativity within the average 10k+ note post on this site: a new theory i’ve been working on

Ever seen an Andean mountain cat before? No? That's not surprising considering it's an endangered species with only about 1,500 of these cats living in the wild.

Museum of Vancouver

Elenor of Chulmleigh, offered for sale by James Webber of Buffalo, NY., 1907