#Greywacke

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Libation Dish Depicting Ka-Arms Presenting an Ankh-Sign.

Period: Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.

Place of origin: Egypt

Medium: Greywacke

[dekkiidan]

Yippee! Finally finished my half of an art trade with the wonderful @nephtheless, featuring her characters Nepsie and Grey enjoying an evening of stargazing, uh, somewhere on Timber Hearth ::) Thanks so much for trading with me! Please go and check out Nepsie's half here!

Grey & Nepsie belong to @nephtheless

[contremineur]

Egyptian bust of Isis-Hathor (greywacke, Late Period 664-525 BC)

The posterior pillar is engraved with a vertical hieroglyphic inscription: Speech of the great Isis, the mother of God, who gives life to the head of the domains and great on diadems/crowns […]

from here

[thatshowthingstarted]

An Egyptian greywacke cosmetic palette,

Predynastic Period, Naqada II, circa 3500-3200 B.C.

In the form of a tilipia fish, with open mouth and circular eyes, the fins with serrated edges, perforated at the top for suspension, 

19cm long

Courtesy: Bonhams

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Arthur's Pass

From Hokitika east again, back over the Southern Alps via Arthur's Pass. In fact we stayed at the alpine village of that name.

It was quite windy.

Arthur's Pass is named after the surveyor Arthur Dudley Dobson, but of course the Māori knew about it. They just didn't use it anymore, preferring the Hurunui Pass to the north. Since the pass was carved out by glaciers, and is blocked in placed by moraine deposits, surveyors actually had to wade through wetlands to get through parts of it, despite the altitude. A road from Christchurch on the east coast was constructed after the discovery of gold on the west. In more recent years the road has been extensively improved to reduce the problems with avalanches and landslides, including the construction of the Otira Viaduct at what had been known as Death Bend.

The mountains in this part of the Southern Alps are all greywacke, not the most visually interesting of rocks, but the hanging valleys and alpine bogs were certainly worth stopping for, even if we didn't see any Kea.

Most of the alpine flora had white or yellow flowers, which is apparently the norm but I have no idea why. We also saw a good number of species we'd already seen at lower alitude, and a few from groups I've covered before but couldn't narrow down far enough.

Unknown Lycaena sp butterflies, and a cicada shell

[mywinepal]

MyWinePal’s Top 4.5 – 5 Star Wines for 2024

MyWinePal’s Top 4.5 – 5 Star Wines for 2024 @winesofbc #bcwine @nzwine @california.wines.canada @drinkalsace @valpolicellawines @winesoftuscany @spearheadwinery @bluemtnwinery @hestercreek1968

While I was Grinch-like in awarding 5 stars to only three wines I tasted in 2024, I was more Oprah-like with the 4.5-5 -star wines.  Plus, there are many quality wines, so it should not be a surprise.  This year there were 13 BC wines, 18 Italian wines, 4 French wines, 2 Californian wines, and 4 wines from New Zealand on my list. 41 wines out of 493 wines this year which works out to 8.5% of the…

[yycwine]

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New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc by the campfire. Summer time throwback to lake living.

[blueiscoool]

AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE FISH PALETTE PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, NAQADA II, CIRCA 3500-3200 B.C.

[aurorawest]

Reading update

Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out by Ryan Love - 3/5 stars

The Fate of Stars by SD Simper - DNF at pg 32

A Gathering Storm by Joanna Chambers - 4.75/5 stars

I kept getting the Madame Leota room from Haunted Mansion stuck in my head as I was reading this (not a bad thing!). This book has a surprisingly low rating on the Storygraph, and I'm not going to torture myself by looking at the reviews, but I'm assuming it's because of the power discrepancy between Ward and Nick. Clearly it didn't bother me as I really enjoyed the book!

Dionysus in Wisconsin by EH Lupton - 4.75/5 stars

At some point I might get tired of Mid-Century Modern romances, but not this day. This book was super fun, with an interesting world and lovely characters. And a Midwest setting! I've spent a lot of time in Madison, Wisconsin, where this book is set, so I got the added bonus of knowing most of the places pretty well. There was even a shoutout to an obscure piece of Madison history, the Lost City in the Arb. I have to get the second book in the series now!boy

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan - 3.25/5 stars

I gave this book an extra quarter of a star for being written in 2003, when it would have been genuinely pretty groundbreaking. Reading it in 2024, it's very twee and pretty cringey (the queer utopia town would have been a magical fantasy in 2003, not so much now in a lot of places). When Levithan credited Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat books in the acknowledgements, I though, ah. No wonder. Hated those as a teen.

All that said, there's some genuinely lovely writing in this book, and it has its place in the queer canon.

The Greywacke by Nick Davidson - 5/5 stars

Super interesting nonfiction about the discipline of geology and how the early geologic epochs were figured out. Also gave me an idea for a historical romance about gay Victorian geologists.

Home Grown Talent by Joanna Chambers & Sally Malcolm - 5/5 stars

I think I loved this one more than the first in the series. The social media scandal was perfect, in that it was exactly as absurd as every social media scandal is, and thus hilarious, but also chilling in how even something so stupid can ruin people's lives.

The First Bright Thing by JR Dawson - DNF at pg 1

Prince of the Sorrows by Kellen Graves - DNF at pg 30

Reuben's Hot & Cold by M Arbon - 3/5 stars

Slight Foxing Around the Edges by Melissa Polk - DNF at pg 132

Restored by Joanna Chambers - 5/5 stars

Balefire by Jordan L Hawk - 4.75/5 stars

A Rulebook for Restless Rogues by Jess Everlee - 4/5 stars

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley - 5/5 stars

See my brain vomit about this book here. If you've been around here for any amount of time you know all Natasha Pulley's books make me feral. Absolutely no exception here. I cannot believe her first UK publisher dropped her over this book. Idiots! It's wonderful just like everything she's ever written.

In the Case of Heartbreak by Courtney Kaye - DNF at pg 181

The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason - DNF at pg 21

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun - 5/5 stars (reread)

Just as good as the first time I read it!

Exhalation by Ted Chiang - 4.5/5 stars

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic - DNF at pg 84

Crisped + Sere by TJ Klune - 4.75/5 stars

It actually kind of makes me mad that this series isn't Klune's most famous work, because it's real good. At this point it seems kind of unlikely he's going to continue it, but man, I'd love another book.

These Silent Stars by Chani Lynn Feener - DNF at pg 68

Trailer Park Trickster by David R Slayton - 5/5 stars

See below.

Deadbeat Druid by David R Slayton - David R Slayton - 5/5 star

I LOVE this series. Love love love love. Absolute must read. If you're a fan of KD Edwards's The Tarot Sequence, this series is right up your alley. It seems like there will be more after this initial trilogy, and there's also a spinoff book coming soon which I'm super excited for. Read them!!

[cock-and-balls-lover]

Yesterday the spider in my window (the one that ate the bee) disappeared and I thought that it left and it was my fault bc I was messing with the curtains, but it reappeared hours later. I think it was just hiding in a crevice in the AC.

[finitevariety]

:) ancient egyptian greywacke fish

[campodefiori9]

Virginia bluebells flowers and Blue Jay.

Near greywacke arch, Central park.

[weekendviking]

Cataclasite; part of the various deformation derived material in the Esk Head Melange, the tectonic boundary between two subduction stacked submarine fan complexes that form the Greywackes of eastern Aotearoa/New Zealand. Siltstone augen torn apart in a matrix of grey argillite mudstones, with one big pale clast of what looks like a feldspar, possibly from a pebble (but in the melange, could be anything from anywhere.)

[nephtheless]

Nepsie (Nephrite) V2, complete with prosthetic leg and actual tech support gear.

Oh, and look, they have a space suit for off-planet repairs!!!

...and with their bestie, Grey (Greywacke). Hight difference :D

[homerstroystory]

Palette depicting a pair of mud turtles, Predynastic Egypt/Early Naqada II (c. 3650-3500 BCE), stone (greywacke)

currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), accession no. 10.176.78

[asterrestrials]

another outer wilds attack i did for this years artfight! greywacke and picrite both belong to ants <3