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[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

agreed...AND - the folks at the party can each have their little cake - while the main cake can be saved for a more intimate celebration later!

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

I genuinely love when someone puts this much thought into a simple idea.
At first, I thought it was just a beautifully decorated peacock cake, but then I noticed that the entire tail is made up of tiny cupcakes. That’s such a clever way to turn a dessert into something people will actually remember.
The little details are what make this one stand out for me.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@GardenerFliss what a special place you have created!

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@silverpebble absolutely LOVE this!!! Tiny flowers tend to be forgotten - but they are beautiful in their own rite

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

so true - and important...

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

As we enter yet another week of drought conditions please, I beg you, put out water for the wildlife.
They have nothing.
No puddles.
No ponds.
No streams.
All have dried up.
Sometimes the birds are thought of and provided for.
But the nocturnal animals go unseen.
Unthought of.
No kind dishes.
Just the tantalising smell of water from a pond they may drown in, or a drain they may get trapped in.
Or a stagnant, dirty old birdbath they may get fatal fluke from.
Hedgehogs need to drink a lot of water to stay healthy. Please provide clean, fresh, safe, ground level water each evening for our precious nocturnal wildlife.
Tap water is best.
Pop a dish or two out tonight.
Dying of thirst is a terrible, painful way to die.
It should never happen to any animal, and certainly not in a country that has the safest tap water in the world.
The few minutes it takes you to fill a dish will make the difference between life and death.❤️

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@HedgehogCabin thank you for the reminder

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@Bexxy__19 Love the vignette!
We have hosted a (murder) of crows for many years. The deCrowe family(and extended relatives). It started with Mo & Flo.Then there was Jo & her little bro. They're scary smart; we've seen them teach little ones, mourn the death of member; & defend their patch

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

Such a great backstory! Ophelia's story is tragic enough & beautifully rendered (esp w/ the water & flowers) but when one overlays that with the drama of the artist's dedication and his muse's demise, and Shakespeare's play within a play takes on additional depth as it were.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in the world, and almost no one knows the haunting story of the woman lying in the water...

This is Ophelia, by John Everett Millais, finished in 1852. The scene is from Hamlet, the young woman who loses her mind after the man she loves kills her father, and drowns in a stream while singing and gathering flowers.

Millais caught the instant before she goes under, hands open, lips still parted in song, her gown pulling her down. In the play, her death is almost a throwaway. It happens offstage, and the queen simply reports it afterward:

"There is a willow grows aslant a brook... When down her weedy trophies and herself fell in the weeping brook."

A few more lines, and the story moves on. Millais took that half-second and spent the better part of a year on it.

Every flower in the water is real, painted with the obsessive botanical precision the Pre-Raphaelites were famous for, and almost every one carries a hidden meaning. The pansies floating on her dress stood for love in vain. The violets around her neck meant faithfulness. The daisy near her hand, innocence. The weeping willow leaning over her was the old symbol of forsaken love. And bright against her gown, one red poppy: the flower of sleep and death, which Shakespeare never mentioned, and which Millais added himself. He built the whole tragedy into the foliage, in a language his Victorian viewers could read like text, and which we drift right past today.

To get the water right, Millais did something extraordinary: he painted the river first, outdoors, on the banks of a stream in Surrey, sitting there for five months, recording every leaf and reed. Then, through the following winter, he painted the girl. Her name was Elizabeth Siddal. She was twenty-two, discovered working in a hat shop, and she would become the great tragic figure of this whole story.

To pose as the drowning Ophelia, Siddal lay for hours in a bathtub of water in Millais’s studio, wearing an antique silver gown he had bought for the purpose. It was winter, so he set oil lamps beneath the tub to keep the water warm. One day, absorbed in his work, Millais did not notice that the lamps had gone out. Siddal, the perfect model, said nothing and did not move, and lay there in the freezing water until the session ended. She caught a severe cold that turned to pneumonia.

She recovered, but never fully, and she never posed for Millais again. And here is the detail that turns this painting into something almost unbearable to look at: ten years later Elizabeth Siddal died of an overdose of laudanum, the opium drug that Victorians took by the spoonful. She was thirty-two.

Look again at that single red poppy Millais slipped into the picture, the flower that has always meant both sleep and death, and that opium is made from.

He painted a beautiful young woman playing a girl who drowns. He could not have known he was also depicting her fate.

Some paintings do not stay inside their frames...

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@JamesLucasIT THANK YOU SO MUCH for the backstory! Ophelia's story is tragic enough & beautifully rendered (esp w/ the flowers)... but when one overlays that with the drama of the artist's dedication and his muse's demise... and Shakespeare's play within a play takes on additional meaning.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

This is very important in my view. By separating the shots, the doc & parents can better isolate problems (if any) with specific ones & determine how to move forward (perhaps using a different mechanism for delivery, for example). Also allows the body to recover better it seems.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨🚨 BOMBSHELL FROM THE OVAL OFFICE 🚨🚨
Stephen Miller just put the CARDS ON THE TABLE — and the vaccine establishment should be TERRIFIED.
He looked straight at the camera and asked the question they NEVER want answered:
“WHY do you need to have these shots bundled into these packages?! Why can’t you split it into 5 visits and give this young body, if a parent wants to do a vaccine, one shot at a time? Why is it that in Japan you can get a separate measles shot, a separate mumps shot, a separate rubella shot… but in America it has to all be packaged together?!”
Then he dropped the hammer:
“This is a courageous action, Mr. President. This is an action that ensures the dignity of patients, the dignity of parents… it restores choice. It says we’re going to let the parent and the doctor make a sound medical decision.”
Stephen Miller just called out the entire forced-combo system in plain English. No more hiding. No more pressure. Parents and doctors decide — not the bureaucracy.
This is the moment the vaccine narrative cracked wide open.
Drop a 🔥 if you’re done with the one-size-fits-all shot packages.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

too funny!!!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just revealed: "Swamp Fox is my Secret Service name."

"I think I'm gonna get in trouble."

"When I chose it, I didn't realize it had two meanings!"

😂🔥

We love Bessent!

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

VERY interesting to see who is bankrolling this guy...and what the tactics are

[Susan Kokinda @sjkokinda]

Yes, Abdul El Sayed is the democratic socialists' golden boy and has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. But what if there is even something worse behind him ... https://t.co/jUgmsxhe6d

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

THANK God!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: By the stroke of pen and flanked by RFK Jr., President Trump establishes a new US vaccine schedule that decreases the number of jabs from 72 to 11 — and spreads them out over multiple visits, rather than pumping the child all at once

"That's a big one in my book!"

MAHA is alive and well! 🇺🇸

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

Love this! Agreed that Monet seems to be dressed pretty plainly - perhaps even more ironic is that the only colors in this pic of famous garden were white and green!

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

If you enjoyed the Autochrome of artist Claude Monet, which I shared with you in June, you may be interested to learn that I've found this new one of the great man, taken in 1917 by Étienne Clémentel in Monet's garden at Giverny.
I've given it a good clean-up for you! I have to say: for an artist renowned for his use of colour, he is dressed surprisingly drably! Nevertheless, this is a very rare colour shot of the great man. It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@AgathaChocolats Momma, I just killed a man"

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@Kilsunny_Herd wow!!! congrats

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@tanpukunokami really lovely tribute.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

@JanieUlibarri beautiful picture. May God bless and keep you whether in this realm or the next.

[Dan Scavino @Scavino47]

You’re a Class Act, Keith—as you await your official nomination yourself, to join The Cabinet next.

You’re next brother, and you will be just as awesome! Thank you for your service to this Administration, and to the American People!

♥️🇺🇸🦅🚀

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

hmmm...not at all surprised

[Monica Crowley @MonicaCrowley]

52 years ago today, the brilliant, courageous, VISIONARY President Nixon resigned from office, the victim of a well-orchestrated Deep State coup to remove him.

You will learn the truth.

The Great Man WILL be vindicated.

[JoMAMA @OSRPeep]

really beautiful

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

If you enjoyed my Autochrome clean-up of Buzzer the cat, you may like to know Arnold Genthe took another Autochrome plate in 1914, entitled "Ann Murdock with Buzzer IV". I wonder if each of Buzzer's kittens bore the same name and a number? I think it's a lovely colour balance of the redheaded Anna and the ginger cat - a really charming colour photo from 112 years ago. It is not colourised.