That feeling when you yearn for a White Christmas you never saw, a winter you never remembered...except perhaps in dreams from lives lived before you were born...

My photographic piece "Flakes in the Night".

#art #photography #snow #snowstorm #night #winter

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That feeling when you've got a muse who's so wonderful that capturing one angle just won't do. You need two...or five. 😀 But seriously, it's great, as are these drawings by Paul-César Helleu. 🙂🎨

#art #traditionalart #illustration #drawing #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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Captured on Independence Day last year on the banks of the Yellowstone River; "A Sky Set on Fire", as the great sphere of blinding light, the giant nuclear fusion reactor we orbit, is brought into view by our planet's rotation. A bit mind-bending when you think about it.

#art #photography #sunrise #sky #skyscape #sun

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Ah, to be a young girl, so fair, so lovely, surrounded by the most wholesome of vibes, utterly captive to the flights of imagination. 🥰 Fritz Zuber-Bühler's delightful painting "Distant Thoughts".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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I call this one "Reticulating Splines"; yes, that is a SimCity reference, and the terrain, with the desert reds, the cliffside trees sprouting up, and the snow patches honestly does look like something from a video game. Only this is oh-so-delightfully real...

#art #photography #winter #Utah #desert #trees #ZionNationalPark #redrock #snow #landscape

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Life pro tip: if you want to see the New York skyline in its entirety from the harbor, go on the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge from Staten Island, lower your window, look to your left, and you'll get the best view there is of this, "The City That Never Sleeps".

#art #photography #skyline #night #nightscape #cityscape #NewYork #NewYorkCity #bridge #road #highway

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This one always gives off some delightfully fallish vibes, at least to me, and in any case that dress she has on is so dreamy: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun's "Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dress #fashion

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The ineffable quality of the waters were just incredible, sailing out there; my heretofore unreleased picture, "A Winter's Dusk in the Florida Strait".

#art #photography #sea #ocean #sunset #dusk #sky #clouds

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Soft lighting illuminates a little table, and its owner, a darling with a beautiful face, eyes so big and full of deep girly thoughts, and hair that's a mane of spun copper, all decorated with a cute dress, making her look just adorable, in Albert Lynch's "The Letter".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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From deep in the last autumn I had the pleasure of experiencing, a twilit structure of cloud suspended in the sky, what I dub "November's Sunset". 🍂🌆🍁

#art #photography #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape #sunset

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There are days when you're in a real mood, but then there are those days where you feel like grabbing an instrument, making something musical, and partying like lovely Emma Hamilton in this delightful Le Brun portrait. 🥳

#art #traditionalart #oilpainting #painting #beautifulgirl #beautifulwoman #LadyHamilton

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Oh, to be a beautiful lady of the 19th century, body luscious and feeling the caress of autumn's air, hair all wavy, face dolled up, soft hand on your face as you behold your...skull. That provokes so many delightfully spooky thoughts as to what her story could be...

#art #photography #gothic #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #skull #autumn #fall #Halloween #spooky

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Presented without editing, "Autumn's Twilight in Wyoming". There's nothing else like a crisp evening in Big Sky Country, where you can truly see that what lies beyond. 🌌😍

#art #photography #sky #skyscape #sunset #twilight #night #clouds #cloudscape

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Vanity is not only feminine, it's delightfully attractive; who can resist the allure of a young and pretty woman all dolled up, looking at her reflection, and enjoying what she sees so, so much, like in this beautiful vintage photograph? 🙂

#art #photography #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #feminine #fashion #aesthetics

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I call this one "Full Sail", because the wind was so strong, the waters so vivid, and the sunset so low and bright on this February day in the Florida Strait. One of the most fun evenings I ever spent. 😍

#art #photography #sail #sailboat #sailing #sunset #sunsetcruise #Florida #FloridaStrait #sea #ocean #seafaring #travel

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With Padre Island looking cloudy, my annular eclipse road trip plans turn toward a different destination: the Southwest.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/10/04/looks-like-im-going-to-the-desert-again/

This post's featured image is a photograph I made on the wide-open road in West Texas at dawn (spare a thought for those of us who have to cross the High Plains to go anywhere 😩🙃  ).

#annulareclipse #eclipse #self #travel #roadtrip #trips

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I call this one "Northern Desert", because it's so desert-like where Interstate 90 crosses the Columbia River in the state of Washington. To the uninitiated (like me before last July), yes, central Washington actually looks like that; it even has sagebrush!

#art #photography #desert #Washington #WashingtonState #ColumbiaRiver #landscape

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Is red the right color to have for #ArtGirlAutumn? I don't know, but copper waves do match the rustic foliage, and they do look so luscious on the titular darling in Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier's "Woman Reading"...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #aesthetics #hairstyle #hair #feminine #autumn #fall #fashion

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Libertarians have failed to convince conservatives of the truth about "Tyranny Inc."? Perhaps; but why hitch our wagons to the Right at all? Why should conservatives take censorship as "debunking" the free market in any case?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/10/03/let-us-move-beyond-convincing-conservatives/

This post's featured image is a mirrored version of John Martin's "Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still".

#society #politics #conservatives #conservatism #libertarianism #libertarians #censorship #deplatforming #statism

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Now brainstorming: the old diamond baron has an environmentalist burial...which makes so much else in my story fit together like a watch.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/10/03/a-diamond-baron-goes-green/

This post's featured image is "Graveyard Under Snow" by Caspar David Friedrich.

#story #writer #writing #OCs #characters #scifi #sciencefiction #familysaga #alternatehistory

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I simply call this one "Olympics Rising", because on the road to Cape Flattery, paralleling the Strait of Juan de Fuca, I caught sight of this breathtaking view of the mountains of coastal Washington in the low light of a summer's late evening. No editing was made...or needed.

#art #photography #beautifullandscape #road #highway #mountains #landscape #summer #OlympicMountains #forest #sunset

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A circular vision framed in stalactites, a shapely maiden clothed only in seaweed amid a moonlit sea, looking so despondent, and the title, "The Origin of the Harp". It all makes this painting by Daniel Maclise a rather intriguing work.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #sea #ocean #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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I dub it "The Ghosts Yet Dance": a heretofore unreleased picture of my first and so far only time I was mano-a-mano with a supercell thunderstorm...right over Devil's Tower, making for a spectacular sight the last time I visited the High Plains.

#art #photography #storm #thunderstorm #supercell #clouds #cloudscape #sky #skyscape #sunset #DevilsTower #HighPlains #sublimelandscape #landscape

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Charles Edward Hallé's "Luna" I just love those eyes of hers, they're beautiful and actually match the sky; not to mention that gorgeous, ornate, and feminine sheer clothing she has on, with matching fan. A delightful aesthetic for the season.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fashion #fall #autumn

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Ooh...playing around with the tones I love how this one came out; it does capture Martian twilight, or at least what I imagine it might look like. Lo, my "Monowheel in Martian dust storm at sunset".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #sunset #twilight #spaceart #Mars #beautifullandscape #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #monowheel #vehicle #duststorm

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The colors of autumn are so lovely, and especially when apprehended by a darling wearing the tones of the earth, like in "A Golden Dream" by Thomas Cooper Gotch, which brings off in subtle fashion the ethereal vibe the title promises. 🍂🙂🍁

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #autumn #fall #fashion

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Looking back through my archives, I find that warming and softening up this piece lends it an even dreamier quality than the original, so lo and behold a new version of my vision "Mermaid in swirling kelp forest".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #mermaid #sea #ocean #underwater #underwaterscape #kelp #kelpforest #fantasy #fantasyart

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An ornate and lush setting to reside in, but the two subjects in "The Seranade by Joseph Frederic Soulacroix look ambivalent, as if the man is summoning his courage, and that darling is wondering "sure, he puts on a good serenade, but do I really feel that way about him?".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #interiors

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Golden aurora flicker and dance like soft embers aflame, the sky above as a metronome for a luscious lady below, in a new spacey piece of mine "A Dancer's Dream".

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #sky #nightsky #aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #skyscape #dancer #dancing #dance #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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For so many reasons this has to be my favorite picture of Geneviève Lantelme; the gaze, the expression, her hairstyle, the soft environs...more than any of her other portraits it makes her seem at once adorable and alluring, irresistible as far as my heart's concerned.

#art #photography #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #aesthetics

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Men might think of the Roman Empire every day, but how many among the strong sex can say they brought such a thought this sublime to life, as John Martin did in his magnificent painting "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum"? Considerably fewer, I'm sure...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #sublimelandscape #volcano #volcaniceruption #history

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Men might think of the Roman Empire every day, but how many among the strong sex can say they brought a thought this sublime to life, as John Martin did in his magnificent painting "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum"? Considerably fewer, I'm sure...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #sublimelandscape #volcano #volcaniceruption #history

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An apocalyptic storm strikes Washington, and Congressional pages find themselves at the center of a blizzard of worldbuilding on my part.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/28/page-boys-of-the-perfect-storm/

This post's featured image is "The Red Boy" by Thomas Lawrence.

#worldbuilding #scifi #sciencefiction #storm #blizzard #story #writing #writer #alternatehistory #pages #pageboys #originalcharacters #OCs

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An oddly workaday outfit for such a lovely lady, but she has such fair features the eye can't help but be drawn to her and her classical-style fireplace, the vibe of Henry Ryland's "Fireplace Reverie" a fine example to keep in mind as the tide of crackling logs draws nearer.

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #autumn #fall #fireplace

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The trail to Cape Flattery: when you reach the end of that, cloud above, wind aface, waters acrash, it feels like you've reached the final limit of terra firma, and Ὠκεανός is all that lies between you and the edge of the world. Thus I dub this capture "At World's End".

#art #photography #sublimelandscape #landscape #sea #cliffs #ocean #rocks #coast #shore #beach #summer #fog #clouds #CapeFlattery #OlympicPeninsula #waves #surf

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I've always loved Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's painterly and evocative "Sphinx mit Undine". A night like this makes it look like that girl is strutting out into the shadow world, the realm of ghosts and gods, where even heroes fear to tread...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulgirl

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I've always loved Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's painterly and evocative "Sphinx mit Undine". A night like this makes it look like that girl is strutting out into the shadow world, the realm of wraiths and gods, where even heroes fear to tread...

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulgirl

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"Twilight on the High Plains". There's nothing else quite like it, especially on those late midsummer nights, such as this one I captured last July. This shot is unedited, by the way; it looks just that amazing in eastern Montana.

#art #photography #HighPlains #Montana #sunset #twilight #clouds #cloudscape #sky #skyscape

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A Christmas ghost story I'm brainstorming just got even spookier: what if my protagonist is spirited away to join the Wild Hunt as a ghost?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/26/a-wandering-soul-in-the-wild-hunt/

This post's featured image is "The Wild Hunt of Odin" by Peter Nicolai Arbo.

#worldbuilding #story #writing #writer #Christmas #ghost #ghoststory #WildHunt #mythology #folklore

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It's a lot longer a drive than it looks on a map, but what's the hurry, when the whole way there you're caressed by summer's descending sun, rays filtered through a mist that heralds the arrival of the Flying Dutchman, coming that night to...well, I'll let you fill in the rest.

My photographic piece from the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca last July, "Road to the Cape".

#art #photography #mist #sunset #fog #beautifullandscape #road #highway #summer #rainforest #Cascadia #OlympicPeninsula

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It's past the equinox. 'Tis the tide when the nights grow long, the shadows grow longer, the leaves turn to rust, and the ghosts come out to play, like in Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach's lovely work "The Fairy Dance".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #ghosts #fairies #night

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Always a classic Midwestern scene; the vast fields, the lone tree, shelves of billowing dark cloud hanging in a sultry atmosphere from horizon to horizon. My photographic piece "Summer Storm Rising".

#art #photography #beautifullandscape #tree #clouds #cloudscape #thunderstorm #storm

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"The Long, Long Supply Line". I took this last July in Montana; it's just a tank at sunset, but the low warm light of the sun and the blue clouds of the sky is such a delightful contrast, not to mention how the sheer starkness of it emphasizes the vast landscape.

#art #photography #beautifullandscape #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape #sunset #industrial

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We (and I include myself in this) often focus on high glamour, but don't underestimate how appealing it can be for a girl to be wholesome, happy, fashionable, and in a flattering setting, like in Ernest Board's "Study of a Young Girl in a Rowing Boat with a Dog".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fashion #aesthetics

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After every color variant imaginable, I suddenly have the thought of "what if...no color?". The result, which I call my "'Ignition, full thrust in black and white", is surprisingly good. Giving me "The Day The Earth Stood Still" vibes.

#art #MastoArt #digitalart #digitalpainting #painting #spaceflight #ionengine #engine #rocket #starship #scifi #sciencefiction

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Ah, there's nothing else quite like the supple beauty of youth, rendered here in lovely fashion by Jacques-Louis David in his "The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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This is an oldie, taken all the way back in 2008, a fall-like vision never seen by the public eye...until now. Lo, my photographic piece "November's Sky".

#art #photography #sky #skyscape #clouds #cloudscape

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Nothing can quite live up to the Birth of Venus, but the horse girl who's most famous for riding in the nude is always a great theme, perhaps depicted most vividly and lovingly by John Collier in his rendition, titled simply "Lady Godiva".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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Worldbuilding and plotting for the perfect storm has taken some fun and winding turns, which I'm now delighted to share with you.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2023/09/15/christmas-blizzard-more-brainstorming/

This post's featured image is "The Blizzard" by Joseph Farquharson.

#weather #blizzard #snowstorm #meteorology #history #weatherhistory #worldbuilding #alternatehistory #story #writer #writing #author #thundersnow #noreaster #hurricane #superstorm #storm #scifi #sciencefiction

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Unlocking the treasure trove that is an old hard drive, with pictures going all the way back to 15 years ago (yay me!), I find and polish up this gem: a high fall vision that I title "Autumn Atmospheres".

#art #photography #tree #forest #fall #autumn #fallfoliage

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A pleasant vision of the vivid colors to come for so many of us this season. Hans Andersen Brendekilde's "A Young Woman Walks the Dog in an Autumn Forest".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fall #fallfoliage #forest #autumn #dress

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Alright, I'll admit it: it's a picture of a Japanese maple taken in June, i.e. nowhere near autumn, but it's such a pleasantly rustic color, what's the difference? So I call this one "Summer, Fall, or Does it Matter".

#art #photography #autumn #fall #leaves #fallfoliage #summer #tree

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Not quite ready to surrender your summer wardrobe but want to look a bit more fall-like? Then take inspiration from the darling in Pierre Oliver Joseph Coomans's "Portrait of a Young Woman". I think she's got a nice look. 🙂

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #flowers #fashion

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"Rich men north of Richmond" is the talk of the year, but what about "rich men west of the 101"? Home prices suggest that may well be the starkest line in the whole country. 🤔

#California #PacificCoast #WestCoast #wealth #society #economy #housing #realestate #geography #thoughts

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'Tis almost the time of year when it's still warm, yet the sun is gentler, the air is crisper, and the trees are starting to match the delightful copper tresses of so many girls, like in Frederick Arthur Bridgman's pleasant vision, "Lawn Tennis Club".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #autumn #leisure #fall

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Not sure what the exact circumstances of this capture of mine ("Sheet of ice on glass" I call it) even were, but it was a cool visual: raindrops pitter-pattering on a sheet of ice on glass. A vibe I'd like to see a lot more of as we get deeper into fall. 🍂🥶🍁

#art #photography #ice #rain #glass

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nostr:npub1flzx05wcpzdggsrcg6kkw3eewe3uylmesgjla96fksn24n6ds08s72xsp0 I suppose not, but it becomes hard to sustain such a view when it becomes evident that people like this represent the vast majority of the public.


Of all the lists various weirdos on Twitter (er, excuse me, "X" 🙄 ) have added me onto over the years on Twitter this might actually be the most boutique. "Personality disorder"? Dude, I don't have any personality disorder; I'm just normal.

Needless to say it's supposed to be some kind of insult, and the adder has been blocked effective immediately.

#Twitter #birdsite #self #thoughts

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Of all the lists various weirdos on here have added me onto over the years on Twitter (er, excuse me, "X" 🙄 ) this might actually be the most boutique. "Personality disorder"? Dude, I don't have any personality disorder; I'm just normal.

Needless to say it's supposed to be some kind of insult, and the adder has been blocked effective immediately.

#Twitter #birdsite #self #thoughts

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It might just be fall, but hey, why not look forward to some colder weather...cold enough to fall? Like this one Yuletide I managed to capture a while back: my piece "White Christmas".

#art #photography #Christmas #WhiteChristmas #snow #winter

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There's a special kinship between pet birds and beautiful young women who have that ineffable vibe of depth and wisdom in their eyes, their face, the very pose and motion of their bodies, lovingly brought to life here by Henry Watrous in his "The Chatterers".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #birds

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Oh. And if my current research is any indication such a storm may well destroy the Washington Monument. As in crack and crumble into pieces onto the snowdrifts, that kind of destroyed.

#worldbuilding #story #writer #writing #disaster #snowstorm #snow #blizzard #weather #scifi #sciencefiction #AIart

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The more I think about and worldbuild my Great Christmas Blizzard for a story, the less it's seeming like Superstorm Sandy Deluxe and the more it's coming out like The Day After Tomorrow Lite. The numbers I'm working with suggest snowdrifts overtopping the Capitol Dome. 😮

#worldbuilding #story #writer #writing #disaster #snowstorm #snow #blizzard #weather #scifi #sciencefiction #AIart

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Full faces, full figures, beautiful all over, looking soft in their expressions but oh-so-slightly wicked in intent. James Tissot's delightful vision of travelers, "The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #sea #ocean #ship #travel

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One November morning, I caught this very autumnal scene; sunny and bright, forest ensconced in fiery colors, a rustic leaf trapped in a great frost. I call this photo "Autumn on Ice".

#art #photography #autumn #fall #fallfoliage #forest #leaf #autumnleaf #leaves #ice #icicle

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TIL the quite possibly largest comet ever seen was observed all the way back in 1729; the thing was naked-eye visible even though it barely even approached the inner solar system. 😮

#astronomy #science #thoughts #comets #history

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Cute girls, pretty flowers, flowing garments, and a landscape draped in autumn's golds. What's not to like in Delphin Eljoras's "By the Pond"? 🙂

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fall #autumn #flowers #dress

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Cute girls, pretty flowers, flowing garments, and a landscape draped in autumn's golds. What's not to like in Delphin Eljoras's "By the Pond"? 🙂

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #fall #autumn

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The heaviest snowfall I've ever seen, one December night a few years ago. The wet stuff coating every branch, every flake tumbling down under those lights...it was like being ensconced in a snow globe. ❄😍 Consider it a preview of winter while it's still warm and bright.

#art #photography #winter #snow #storm #snowstorm #snowfall #night

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This one by Charles Dana Gibson has to be one of the prettiest girls ever illustrated with pen and paper. At least she is to me. 😍🥰 He titled it "The Eternal Question"; her dreamy mane forms a question mark, see. 😉

#art #traditionalart #illustration #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl

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For the first time this season it was cool enough last night for me to have my windows open, and I had a much better sleep! 😴🥰

Painting is Sándor Liezen-Mayer's "Sleeping Woman".

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #sleep #self #thoughts #weather #summer #autumn

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