Brassavola cucullata.

Orchidaceae: Laeliinae.

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your son is a pleasure to have on his knees for me

 Tatar shaman in Minusinsk , Siberia ca. 1910.

not everything delayed is denied

Equivalent, 1926 c (American, 1864–1946) Gelatin silver print 4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in. (11.8 x 9.2 cm) Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949 (49.55.29)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.55.29

“Then the bride put back her veil, and Betty, studying the white face, saw that this actually was not herself; it was her dead sister Letice.”

David Murray Smith (1865–1952), “Pomps and Vanities”

illustration from ‘A Book of Ghosts’ by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1904

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Eastern Barn Owl (Tyto javanica), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia

Photographs by Ben Williams

02.12.2025 | 4 PM

We should all dance and sing

Dive - Nirvana (Incesticide, 1992, recorded 1990)

Coal Tit/svartmes. Värmland, Sweden (January 5, 2025).

— Wax 'N' Wayne, Eileen Myles, from 'I Must Be Living Twice, New & Selected Poems 1975 - 2014'

Andrei Tarkovsky. The Sacrifice.