The fungi in this photo from Opus look like they’re having fun.
Orange moss ©Opus, all rights reserved
Fungi Friday
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Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
The fungi in this photo from Opus look like they’re having fun.
Orange moss ©Opus, all rights reserved
Last year I have shown you bright yellow crab spider who was munching on bees. This year I did not see a grown-up one, only this one little baby. Still white, slightly translucent and tiny, about the size of a pinhead. Sorry for a bit blurry pictures, but the little bugger did not stop, it kept wandering about and performing strange gymnastics. And I have forgotten to take my monopod with me, so this is shot completely freehand.
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What I find the most interesting about his video is the realization that our modern perceptions of what is and is not beautiful are heavily skewed towards unreasonable and sometimes unachievable perfection. Sometimes perfection that you can only evaluate up so close, that you need a magnifying glass and calipers.
I blame the industrial revolution and mass-produced machined goods.
Carolyn Verhoeff. Love Me Love My Dog. Boston, The Page Company, 1922.
A sweet, feel-good story about an orphan girl and her dog.
via: The Internet Archive
Julius M. Price. My Bohemian Days in Paris. Cover art and included drawings by the author. Philadelphia, D. McKay, 1913.
via: The Internet Archive
Louise Chandler Moulton. In the Garden of Dreams: Lyrics and Sonnets. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Cover Photo via: Liveinternet.ru
Available to read at The Internet Archive
A lovely blue flower courtesy of Avalus who says,
A beautiful Cornflower, next to a field of wheat. Since last year, farmers are encouraged to leave the borders of their fields unplowed and many plants have found new niches. I have cycled this road for over 7 years and these are the first cornflowers I have seen there. I hope next year, there will be more.
Kornblume ©Avalus, all rights reserved
Yellowjackets are lousy pollinators. From a gardening point of view they are pests. They scavenge and steal and eat whatever they find and sometimes destroy. In this particular case, I have caught one munching on the stem. The wasp has bitten into it and probably munched on the sap. It definitively was not just cooling off its heels in the shade, her mandibles were moving and she took her time on that spot.
What the ones on the leaves were doing I have no idea, but I never saw one even near the blossoms.
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© Charly, all rights reserved. Click for full size.
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Douglas William Jerrold; John Jackdaw; Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne. The Handbook of Swindling. London, Chapman and Hall, 1839.
Frontispiece, The Handbook of Swindling
Publication details, The Handbook of Swindling
via: The Internet Archive
From the French of Louis Figuier. Revised by E. Percival Wright. The Ocean World. London, Paris & New York; Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1872.
Cover photo via: Colby College, The History of the Book
Available to read at The Internet Archive
Parker Fillmore. Mighty Mikko: Finnish Folk Tales and Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Jay Van Everen. New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
I’m overdue for highlighting Finnish Fairy Tales so our book this week contains a wealth of old Finnish folk stories translated for an English-speaking audience. Illustrator Jay Van Everen breathes life into the stories using graphic, modern drawings with geometric and abstract elements. There is only 1 colour plate in Mighty Mikko, but Van Everen was best known for his bright, colourful abstract paintings. Nonetheless, Van Everen’s black and white drawings for Mighty Mikko are bold and full of interest. The artist uses 2 different styles of illustration in the book – one for the first half of traditional tales and another for the second half of the book which contains the continuing saga of Mikko. Both styles are interesting and worth a good look so I’m going to break this post into 2 parts. Part 2 will be posted next Saturday.
Enjoy!
