Alien, traditional ink drawing by Koha

Nazgûl

Magnolia. 1995

Of Straws and Stars

🦋 The Lepidoptera of Ceylon London, L. Reeve & co., 1880-1887. Original source Image description: Historical illustration titled “The Lepidoptera of Ceylon” depicting three butterflies. The top butterfly is brown with two small white spots on each forewing and dark circular spots on the hindwings. The middle butterfly is shown in profile, revealing intricately patterned wings with wavy lines, eyespots, and a mix of brown, orange, and pale blue shades. The bottom butterfly displays dark brown wings with bold white patches near the tips and a scalloped orange pattern along the hindwings. All butterflies are detailed with visible antennae, body segments, and fine wing venation, illustrating species diversity from 19th-century Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

KUN KAR by Seb Jarnot

Bury Me Here by Seb Jarnot

Anna Atkins’ cyanotype, 1844 (via here)

Wien, 04.11.2025

🦋 The Lepidoptera of Ceylon London, L. Reeve & co., 1880-1887. Original source Image description: Illustration from “The Lepidoptera of Ceylon” (1880-1887) showing two large butterflies with black wings featuring white and pale blue markings and black spots, positioned with wings fully spread. Between them is a detailed depiction of a green caterpillar with white diagonal stripes on a leaf, alongside a green chrysalis. The illustration highlights different life stages of the butterfly species native to Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

An alligator basks in the midday sun in the Okefenokee Swamp along the Georgia-Florida line. They call it black-water country, but in this sandy-bottomed stretch the water looks as red as cranberry juice owing to tannins from decaying leaves. photo: Melissa Farlow (1992)

Prowling Tiger (detail) by Herbert Dicksee (1915)

snoopy of the day