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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · yesterday

Pitta of the Day: Garnet Pitta Near Threatened 📷 Wai Loon Wong

Photo of bird. Description from ebird: ‘This brilliant gem of a bird is, like most pittas, exceedingly shy and difficult to see as it forages on the forest floor. Listen for its song, a long, slightly broken whistle. If seen, its combination of bright red crown, deep purplish-blue back, and sparkling blue wing coverts are diagnostic. Favors wet lowland and lower foothill forests with a dense understory; can occasionally be found in low-quality secondary or modified habitats.’

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d ago

Goodnight. Les Souris et le Chat-Huant, The Mice and the Owl, Gustave Doré for The Fables of La Fontaine, 1867.

Illustration, giant owl in tree hollow in dark wood, ruins in background, fungi beneath the tree.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

William De Morgan

Tile design, blue and white, galleon with three sails, ocean, dolphins, moon or sun.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hello Monday. Portrait of Mary Fitton, Unknown, c.1595.

Portrait of Mary Fitton, Maid of Hounour to Elizabeth I of England. Possibly John Bettes the Younger or George Gower. Elaborate yellow and white Tudor gown with white open ruff, yellow flame-like design along white sleeves, she has brown hair, worn up with a white headdress, she wears pearls.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

From Nature Abounding, edited by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.

Illustration of badger in woodland setting. PART ONE: EARTH

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Pitta of the Day: Black-crowned Pitta 📷 Saravanan Krishnamurthy

Photo of bird perched on mossy branch. Description from ebird: ‘Dazzling pitta of Borneo’s lowland dipterocarp forests. Midnight blue above and blinding scarlet below, with a dark head, bright blue wing coverts, and a glowing silver line trailing backwards behind the eye. Garnet Pitta is very similar but has a bright red crown; ranges barely overlap, if at all. Despite incandescent coloration, can be difficult to see as it forages in dense undergrowth; especially favors well-shaded gullies and gulches. Listen for its song, a pure ascending whistle which ends abruptly.’

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Book Cover of the Day:

L’enseigne de Vaisseau Paul Henry Rene Bazon
Brown cover decorate with red irises and a golden sun with rays

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Barn Owl and Hedgehogs, William James Webbe.

Barn owl observing two hedgehogs approach a beetle from a rocky perch in landscape, painting.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

🖼️ Fedor Petrovich Tolstoi

A still life painting titled "Bouquet of flowers, butterflies and bird" by Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy. It features a bouquet of various flowers arranged in a clear glass vase, placed on a brown, neutral background. The bouquet includes a prominent red and white poppy, delicate pink blossoms, and dark blue spiky flowers, among others, showcasing intricate details and vibrant colors. The flowers are held in a round, clear glass vase, filled with water, through which the stems are visible.
A yellow and black butterfly with distinctive patterns on its wings is perched on the rim of the vase, near the water line.
A goldfinch, with its distinctive yellow markings on its wings and a red and white face, stands on the surface next to the vase.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Morning. 🖼️ Edith Holden

Green Woodpecker (Gecinus viridis) illustration

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Goodnight. Krakow by night, Jozef Wilkon.

An illustration titled Cracow by night by Józef Wilkon, 1974.
The illustration depicts a nighttime scene of Krakow (Cracow).
Prominent architectural features dominate the foreground, including a large, multi-arched building with a white facade, resembling a market hall or historical structure, possibly the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in Krakow's Main Market Square.
Behind this central building, several distinctive towers and red-roofed structures with one tower featuring a blue and gold spire, and another a clock face.
The background shows a silhouette of a city skyline under a night sky with a crescent moon.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Apparition in the Forest (from Sleeping Beauty), before 1858 by Moritz von Schwind. #SpookySunday

Painting as described, a man watches from the wayside.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

‘She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.’ ~ Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #SpookySunday 🖼️ Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, 1902.

‘SO HAUNTED AT MOONLIGHT WITH BAT AND OWL AND GHOSTLY MOTH’ ~ illustration of woman beside tree with wild haunted look with bat in flight. Was originally published in Harper's Magazine in March 1902 and uses charcoal on board.

Mika Paananen @painmike1.bsky.social · 4d ago

Adelaide Claxton, “The Party on the Stairs”(1875). #SpookySunday

Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 3d ago

„Graut Liebchen auch?...Der Mond scheint hell! Hurra! Die Toten reiten schnell!” (Dost thou not fear, my love? The moon it shines so bright— Huzzah! The dead ride quick by night. G.A. Bürger “Lenore”) 🎨Carl Mayers Kunstanstalt #SpookySunday

ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 3d ago

A trip back to 1996 with airyfairy's excellent Wannabe, part of our Writing challenge www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...

Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 3d ago

✨🦋✨🌀 It’s my absolute delight & honour to be featured on the Sunday Poetry Series from @shadesofgreen.bsky.social Thank you to the wonderful Susan Richardson and Joe for this gorgeous gift. Take a stroll & enjoy the many splendors of this lovely series: athousandshadesofgreen.com/sunday-poetr...

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Little walk, little paddle.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

Pink angel’s trumpets with tiger moth, painting.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fox and Pheasant, Anton Enzinger, C18th.

A fox gazes up at a pheasant perched in a tree, woodland landscape, painting.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 3d ago

Horse in a Birch Grove, Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky.

Painting as described, horse is chestnut coloured.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pitta of the Day: Sula Pitta 📷 Boas Emmanuel

Photo of bird on mossy branch, description from ebird: ‘A spectacular ground-dwelling forest bird with a plump short-tailed body, extremely long legs, a bold red belly, a broad blue chest band, a reddish top to the black head, and green upperparts. Females yellow-eyed, males dark-eyed. Singles forage on forest floor or perch in the understory, especially when calling. Restricted to lowland forest on the Banggai and Sula Islands, where it is unmistakable. Song is typical of the genus: a two-part tremulous whistle, rising on the first part, and falling mournfully on the last part: “waaaaaaaaop-aaaaaaaawow.”’

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

Book Cover of the Day:

The HOUSE of HAPPINESS
KATE LANGLEY BOSHER
Olive cover, gold lettering; decorated with the outline of window panes and doorway with bricked path, ivy, and white and purple flowers in the foreground.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sunday plans: 🖼️ DD McInnes

Grey mouse carrying books and a daisy, green foliage background, painting.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

🖼️ Georgia Cox

Two magpies perched on a branch against a gold background, painting.

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

Morning. Reed Buntings, Naumann, lithograph, 1890.

The image depicts three Reed Buntings (Emberiza schoeniclus), also identified as Emberiza Intermedia Michahelles or Emberiza Palustris Savi, perched on reeds above water

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 4d ago

Goodnight. ‘Love is a salt, a gall, a rue, A vinegar-vintage. Dos y Ddw, Vaya con Dios, quickly, too!” “Ah, not yet, never yet, my love; The stars and moon still shine above.’ ~ Dafydd ap Gwilym. #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Franz Stuck

Painting, a couple sit on a grassy knoll, coastline and ocean in distance; they gaze up into the starry night sky with shooting stars.

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 6d ago

And here it is! Part 4 of my author interview and here I am talking about my latest, Saltburn @renardpress.com - renardpress.com/books/saltbu... youtu.be/ebS6EozBzck?...

Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson (Part 4)

YouTube video by Boxroom Books

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 4d ago

And the last of my author interviews. Here talking short stories with shout outs to @sunburntsaints.bsky.social @abctales.bsky.social Pistol Jim Press, Punk Noir Press, Revolution John. youtu.be/liY_zc-BhNk?...

Author Interview - in conversation with Drew Gummerson BONUS FEATURES

YouTube video by Boxroom Books

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 5d ago

Say: "White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!" for good luck on the first of the month! And a very merry Lammas for all of you who harvest. 🎨 Thiago Correa