A few more photos demonstrating MacQueen’s genius. I love the incorporation of bones, scales, organic dyes, horns, and movement.
I love the artwork of @zoekellerdraws. On the left is the beautiful Luna moth, relatively common in North America. These moths only live a week as they don’t have a mouth (hence they’re never spotted visiting flowers) and instead live off stored fat (from their caterpillar days)
I used to paint with inks and loved the way the ink would travel through water as I cleaned my brushes- so captured it here 🖌
Spiders webs have been around for at least 100 million years
I also only found out today that a ‘cobweb‘ is (generally) used to specifically refer to an abandoned spiders web
🕷🕸Beautiful graphic by @taymaggiacomo for this spider silk article: https://t.co/MFIEUjt5pp
Dating many centuries back, and invented in the east and west separately, an armillary sphere is a model of the objects in the sky. It includes the circles of the heavens, motions of the sun/earth, polar circles etc.
🌍 at the centre= a Ptolemaic
🌞 at the centre= a Copernican
Yesterday’s woodland finds:
The vividly red and extremely poisonous berries of a cuckoopint
The poisonous common earthball fungi
A hanging vine of ivy
The wine-red and edible shellfish scented russula mushroom 🍄
🎼A little (intensley beautiful and relaxing) moment from my day to yours 🎧 Chilly Gonzales - Prelude in C Sharp Major https://t.co/KL3IKUXIWQ
I’m obsessed this tree in our garden, the rhus typhina. Because of the shape and velvety surface of the branches (similar to antlers) they are also known as Stag’s horn sumac. On female plants, such as this one, velvety red cones of fruit form