The western crowned pigeon, Mauritius blue pigeon, Buru green pigeon, Madagascar blue pigeon - I had no idea there is such a variety of unusual looking pigeons! And Pauline Knip did wonderful portraits of them in the early 1800's, although it looks like she wasn't exactly aboard in her dealings with Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck who commissioned the artwork from her.
[#]art #painting #birds #pigeons
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/les-pigeons/
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[#]art to start 🎨
...tucked up for a good read
'Reading Girl'
Artist: Ellen Fasthuber-Huemer
[#]painting #oil #OilPainting #reading
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...and here's the second part.
https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/86922331/2702430777
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The lovely librarians at the Seattle Public Library have put together a list of books "centering transformative thought and action ideas around creating social change." It's split into two parts, here's the first:
[#]books #reading #libraries #SPL @bookstodon@a.gup.p
https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/86922331/2702367117
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[#]art to start 🎨
...village life
'Stilt house landscape in the mountains'
Artist: Phung Wang
[#]painting #acrylic #AcrylicPainting #landscape
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I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.
Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.
Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.
Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.
Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.
-- 'Woman Work' by Maya Angelou
[#]VerseThursday #TodaysPoem #poetry #MayaAngelou @poetry
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[#]art to start 🎨
...warmth and comfort
'Flowers and Fruit'
Artist: Louis Valtat
[#]painting #oil #OilPainting #StillLife
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It's wonderful to see that Bookshop.org has expanded into e-books which will provide even more support for independent bookshops across the country (US). Set up as a B-corporation five years ago and alternative to Amazon, it allocates 80% of its profits to indies and so far has raised over 35 million dollars for approximately 2,200 participating shops.
Initially they will offer over 3 million titles, and if a title is ordered from a specific store, all profits will go to that store, profits from orders that don't specify a particular shop will be distributed.
[#]books #reading #ebooks @bookstodon@a.gup.p
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bookshoporg-launches-revolutionary-ebook-platform-to-support-local-bookstores-302361648.html
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