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Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) 1596 - 1610 by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, Elias Verhulst.

Watercolour and bodycolour over black chalk.

Rijksmuseum.

Wikimedia.

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Arts and Crafts front cover of 'The Highlands & Islands' by A. R. Hope Moncrieff.

Published 1906 by A & C. Black (London).

Own scan from my own book.

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Ox-eye daisy (1781) by Mary Delany (1700-1788).

Collage of coloured papers, with bodycolour and watercolour, on black ink background (1776).

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

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June Rose Elves taken from ‘The Faery Calendar’ (1920).

Woodcut print by Bernard Sleigh.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023.

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Cover of June 1898 edition of ‘The Black Cat’ with an illustration by Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter.

Source: Scrimbab. Restoration by: magscanner

Internet Archive Python library 1.8.1

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June (circa 1928) by Irene Fawkes.

Colour lithograph sheet for a calendar depicting birds produced by the Baynard Press. Great Britain, 1928.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023.

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Summer (1897). Wood-engraving.

Tail-piece by Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918) taken from 'Paris Almanac.'

The Cleveland Museum of Art.

archive.org

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From our files: "Michigan Treetop" by Doris Lee, from Michigan on Canvas: The J. L. Hudson Company Collection. 1947

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Botanical beauties, tiny tattoos?

From: Newton, James. A Complete Herbal of the Late James Newton, M.D. : Containing the Prints and the English Names of Several Thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c., Many of Which Are Not to Be Found in the Herbals of Either Gerard, Johnson, or Parkinson. New ed. London: Printed for Lackington, Allen & Co., 1798.

QK41 .N5 1798

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Buds on the Branch

(c) riverwindphotography, May 2024

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The light

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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran

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Happy Trilobite Tuesday! In recent years, the process of trilobite preparation has risen to new heights thanks to technological advancements. For example, preparing a specimen like the one pictured here—a pair of 5-in- (12.7-cm-) long, 500 million-year-old Olenoides superbus—might not have been possible a decade ago. Note the row of free-standing spines running along the axial lobe of the top trilobite. Such intricate detail can now be revealed thanks to improvements in the equipment involved in the preparation process.

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“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

Lord Dunsany

Art: Sidney Sime illustrates Lord Dunsany’s Book of Wonder.

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Fairy Maidens of the Waters

1919/20

Artist : Joseph Alanen (1885-1920)

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View of an advertising card for J.V. Lisee, depicting a cat watching a butterfly on a shoe. Printed on front: "School shoes a specialty. High and medium-cut home manufactured. J.V. Lisee, 146 Woodward Ave. Lowest prices guaranteed."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library