Laurie Agard

@laurieagard.com

Author, filmmaker, American Aussie married to extraordinary doctor. Proud mom, sister, aunt daughter. PhD, traveler, volunteer, reader, mosaicist, minpins & cockatiel, ally, x-college athlete who loves sports 🏀 💙 🐾 🌈📕 🧳 🎥

Paul Klee : Chimney Movement, 1915 Watercolor on paper attached to Klee's custom mount 7-7/8 x 6-1/2 in | 20 x 16.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Further description in the alt text 👇

Style and Context: The painting dates to a critical transition phase in Klee's career right after his transformative 1914 trip to Tunisia, where he famously declared that color and he were one. Like many of his architectural abstractions from 1915, it deconstructs urban components—such as rooftop chimneys—into rhythmic, dancing geometric blocks and patches of color.

When enough rain falls in Maltahöhe, Namibia, millions of desert lilies bloom across the landscape for just a few days each year. This natural phenomenon briefly transforms the arid desert into a sea of flowers almost overnight. IG: @ earthpix

Indian Robin 16cm Indian subcontinent Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. Non-migratory Diet Insects, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars female lays 2-4 eggs, incubates alone, both parents feed them for 14 days, learn to fly and become independent.

Pied Wagtail 18cm Great Britain and Ireland Primarily feeds on insects in the summer winters some populations migrate short distances south to western Continental Europe, such as France and Iberia Female lay 5 to 6 eggs incubates them solely, both parents feed the young