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Faerie pouches to store your forest trinkets and treasures

1970’s (perhaps early 1980’s) bride with her attendants

Andromeda Station : This surreal picture isn’t from a special effects sci-fi movie. It is a digital composite of frames of the real Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, rising over a real mountain. Exposures tracking the galaxy and background stars have been digitally combined with separate exposures of the foreground terrain. All background and foreground exposures were made back to back with the same camera and telephoto lens on the same night from the same location. In the “Deepscape” combination they produce a stunning image that reveals a range of brightness and color that your eye can’t quite see on its own. Still, it does look like you could ride a cable car up this mountain and get off at the station right next to Andromeda. But at 2.5 million light-years from Earth the big beautiful spiral galaxy really is a little out of reach as a destination. Don’t worry, though. Just wait 5 billion years and the Andromeda Galaxy will come to you. This Andromeda Station is better known as Weisshorn, the highest peak of the ski area in Arosa, Switzerland. via NASA

The Queen of the Night from Mozart’s Magic Flute Simon Quaglio 1818 

Nick Archer - Blown Off Course, 2021

Ernst Steiner — Lebensbaum (Tree of Life)   [oil and tempera on hardboard, 1982]

Anna Wilson-Patterson - Prospect Cottage Cat. Oil on wood.

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The Oval,  Naoshima Island, Japan, designed by architect Tadao Ando