TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I was blown away last evening watching this documentary movie from our library.   I have zero background education in art history, and had n...

An outstanding example, nicely documented in Marcy O'Connor's absolutely outstanding Prairie Haven blog.  This is one of the photos...

I hope I'm not violating too many copyright regulations by reproducing these three pages.  I'll be reviewing The Blood Countess: Mur...

From the collections of the Victoria and Albert : [A panel from] The Oxburgh Hangings. Hanging with applied panels of embroidery, formerly ...

Photograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstoc k.  Via The Guardian . I will forever be in awe of how some birds can construct these nests...

A ceremonial mask from the Benue River Valley region of Nigeria, from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The black and r...

Via The Music Man .  Note this is done entirely by memory without looking at any sheet music.  I think I was eight years old before I could ...

Posted for the beauty of the images. 

  Everyone who watched the Belmont 40 years ago will never forget Secretariat's race that day.  He had already won the Kentucky Derby ...

This hand-coloured scanning electron micrograph was the favourite of the jury in the section "Best Scientific Image". The imag...

It just absolutely fascinates me that each of these hexagonal tiles has the same pattern , but that the resultant overall result can be so v...

This one eclosed late this afternoon; when I photographed him, he was still fanning his wings to dry and stiffen them. (Males are charact...

The United States has been learning some unpleasant realities about "asymmetric warfare" in which the country with the most bomber...

One of the winning photos in the 2026 Sony World Photography Awards open competition. Celestial Dance . Shortlist, Motion. This young Lusita...

An Astronomy Picture of the Day  from Finland, explained at the link and in my previous post on the subject. Reposted from 2013 to ad...

"Plants usually attract pollinators using bright colors and scents, but some of the earliest plants use heat instead. A collaboration b...

I don't really have time to blog today, but I wanted to share this video I found last night at Nag on the Lake (which I invite you to ...

The European Space Agency is compiling a 3D map of the Milky Way, showing the color and brightness of 1.8 billion stars .  In this image, w...

This 4-month-old godwit flew 8,000 miles across the Pacific from Alaska to Tasmania. "The journey set what the agency described as the...

My father used to quote that phrase when we played 8-ball. I don't know the origin of the aphorism (?Twain, ?W.C. Fields), but I di...