SOFT

footballers writhing around on the field like mating snails

July along Pine Creek, light of another year

Ida's blue/Plebejus idas/hedblåvinge, Large skipper/Ochlodes sylvanus/ängssmygare, Lesser marsh grasshopper/Chorthippus albomarginatus/strandängsgräshoppa, and Gypsy's cuckoo bumblebee/Bombus bohemicus/jordsnylthumla. Individual plant photos: Meadowsweet/Filipendula ulmaria/älggräs, Peach-leaved bellflower/Campanula persicifolia/stor blåklocka, and Heath spotted orchid/Dactylorhiza maculata/fläcknycklar aka Jungfru Marie nycklar. Huddinge, Södermanland, Sweden (7 July 2013).

Source: christie’s.com

Bowl with Fish design , Iran, probably Kashan, late 13th–mid-14th century, stonepaste; black decoration under a transparent turquoise glaze

[id: two postage stamps, both with photos of flowers. the left depicts lily of the valley with its delicate bell-shaped flowers, while the right depicts oxeye daisies with their many white petals and classic yellow center. end id]

A Masonic ball fob which opens to reveal semi-occult symbols.  A must for any gentleman of quality who would like to found a country or write an opera about singing parrot-men.  If you don’t carry one, how will you ever remember skull-sun-eye-axe?

ADÉLAÏDE LABILLE-GUIARD (detail)

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. II: 1956-1963

Bison charging the camera. Animal life of the Carlsbad cavern. 1928.