Profile avatar
pondare.bsky.social
Art, history, books, hiking, and science. Dogs are cool, too.
55 posts 252 followers 156 following
Prolific Poster

Thursday's sunset. Astonishingly pink.

Cypresses and Two Women, Vincent van Gogh 1890

Trees in Bloom https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-sisley/trees-in-bloom-1889

UC Davis is a powerhouse for breakthroughs and impact. Our interdisciplinary research plays a vital role in building the region’s economy. Our research improves the quality of life of residents and contributes to America’s global leadership in technology and innovation. (1/3)

The slightly wonky Norman arch of the door into St Peter's Church, Cambridge for #AdoorableThursday.

an accident which not seldom happens

N. C. Wyeth ~ 1882 - 1945 Still Life with Tomatoes 1925 - 1935 Oil on canvas.

QUADROCEPHALUS, an early medieval carved stone dating c. AD 300-600 decorated with four human heads, found at Glenfoot, Abernethy. The base boasts prehistoric cup marks. 🙂🙂🙂🙂 A representation of beliefs the local (Pictish) people had before the spread of Christianity? - Perth Museum My 📷

👀 #CoteheleHouse #Cornwall Two beautiful doorways. #AdoorableThursday #Tudor @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Yarigatake A https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/156896

26/2/25 - nocturn

He’s the devil, I say. The reason why you don’t see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess.

what’s made in fire must properly belong to fire; and so hell’s probable.

Aeneas flees from Troy this #ReliefWednesday in a relief from the Sebasteion in Aphrodisias. Aeneas carries his father Anchises on his shoulders and Anchises carries a box which holds the Penates. The Penates would eventually be held by the Vestal Virgins in Rome. #AncientBluesky🏺

gripe your oars, and clutch your souls, now!

Goodnight. 🖼️ The Great Bear, Flowers of the sky, 1879.

Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum day 25/365 #DorsetFlora

Sakujii https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/156899

Windy Day At Veneux https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-sisley/windy-day-at-veneux-1882

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

Springtime in #davisca

@restingdinoface.bsky.social chronicles migratory patterns and the changing of the seasons through a mastodon’s eyes.

#MosaicMonday; a panel depicting Theseus grappling with the Minotaur in an attempt to slay him as a concerned crowd watches on. From an unknown location at #Pompeii. Now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky

How about some vitamin sea to get away from the depressing news? #photography #seascape

24/2/25 - nocturn

& gone 6pm still uplight from the gone sun & in the yard winternormal bars of shedlight on pools a blackbird sets up winterspring vantage sings phrases until dark until villlage lights ping on two miles beyond

To bring a smile to your face this Monday morning, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 The artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti... #Archaeology #Art

Never in our history has the US voted w/ Dictatorships at the expense of our Democratic allies—that is until today.  Trump has not only just ruined US credibility as a global leader, but set back the global fight for democratic values and peace.

Field of Yellow Irises at Giverny, 1887

youngkin is term limited for governor but i expect this quote to make the rounds when he tries to run for senate in two years

'Three Beeches.' (1905) One of the founding members of the Nabis movement in 1888, Paul Ranson's work stands out thanks to his incorporation of ideas borrowed from occultism, theosophy, spiritualism, and magic. An important artist and not nearly as celebrated as he should be.

#trailcam #trailcams coyote (canis latrans) #mammals #dogs #coyotes

here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost

The Simulation is just mashing buttons now.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. #Wodehouse

Willys de Castro, Modulated Composition, 1954 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137699

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Pentti Sammallahti.

A Welsh myth tells of Prince Llywelyn’s loyal hound, Gelert, slain when his master wrongly thought he’d harmed his child. In truth, he’d saved the baby from a wolf. Snowdrops are said to have bloomed on his grave, their white petals symbols of innocence & loyalty. #FolkloreSunday

That sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.

not hard to notice the heavy quilts of snow in the distant land Basho

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

A Manor House in Autumn, John Atkinson Grimshaw 1884

Garden in Summer https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshi-yoshida/garden-in-summer-1933

Goodnight. Les Souris et le Chat-Huant, The Mice and the Owl, Gustave Doré for The Fables of La Fontaine, 1867.

Master gardener. Flower lover. Excavator.

Fifty Shades of Grey #nature #photography #Finland 21.02.25 #Naantali