Clocha na hÉireann/The Stones of Ireland. Glencolmcille, Co. Donegal. This project was a collaborative 1916 commemoration work between stone masons from every county on the island of Ireland.
Co. Antrim is black basalt! Do you know what your county is?! #InternationalRockDay
We have signed copies of 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 by Vicki Notaro!
Warm, funny, generous & gently confronting. A book about friendship, belonging, family and the communities we build around ourselves.
Commercial fiction matters. This is a good book!
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
https://t.co/6dp3fteK6R
Visitors to fifteenth-century Amsterdam usually regretted asking Jan de Verwarde for directions - early 15th C, Getty Mus, Ms. Ludwig IX 5 (83.ML101), f. 184r
Chicory in bright sunshine along the Thames💙
This lovely flower is also known as ragged sailors, blue dandelion and coffeeweed - the latter because roasted chicory-root can be used as a coffee substitute💙
#BlueMonday
"Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotises, and your soul is washed by vastness."
~ Iain Pears
Girl in a Silver Sea (1909)
🎨 Joaquín Sorolla
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely..."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunset at Orholm (1896)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted