History addict (originally Classics, but trying to broaden my repertoire); monsters, mosaics and myths. (Also birds, butterflies etc.) @ianebbage.bsky.social
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Peacocks for #mosaicmonday, here with vine tendrils & a basket of grapes. Well-observed, good quality work with, in the lower border, a striking decorative tromp-l'oeil ribbon set against a dark background & picking up colouring from the birds' plumage. Antioch 2-4c CE
Figures of mourning flanking the memorial stone to Andrew Skene (d.1835), an Edinburgh advocate, in the New Calton Cemetery: the central panel depicts "Misfortune soothed by Wisdom" #31DaysofGraves Day 22 Mourning
The Bondgate Tower (or Hotspur Tower/Gateway) in Alnwick, part of the fortifications built mid-15c by Hotspur's son 2nd Earl of Northumberland, under licence from Henry V #thursgate
The Old Post Office in Clayport Street in Alnwick, with its "Tuscan" porch (early 19c) #adoorablethursday
A fairly dreich morning, to begin with, at Musselburgh: it brightened up later. Curlew; some rather distant ducks: 3 Shovelers, and a Gadwall trying to get out of the picture; Red-breasted Merganser; and a Cormorant swallowing its catch. #birdwatching
The Marsh Sandpiper which visited Musselburgh in Autumn last year #waderwednesday
One if the corbels in the Great Hall (1341) at Penshurst Place of figures representing estate workers #woodensday
An autumnal Acer (? cappodocicum) in the Arboretum at Howick Hall in Northumberland #thicktrunktuesday
1/2 Imagery of #Fire runs through this memorial to John Johnson:
"He who would build a pyramid to his name
Must act as he did: fuel makes a flame:
Who from his good deeds did so bright aspire
That all were cherished with its quickening fire." /cntd
#31DaysofGraves Day 20 Fire
"Lost at sea": all too common a fate for people living in coastal communities: #31DaysofGraves Day 19 Water (North Berwick, Old Parish Church)
Ploughing the soil, harrowing and sowing, against the background of the Braid Hills, illustrated on the 18c tomb of members of the Stratton/Straiton family in the graveyard of Liberton Kirk in Edinburgh #31DaysofGraves Day 18 Earth
On his Feast Day, St Luke in St Andrew's and St George's in George St in Edinburgh #stainedglasssunday
Riverside Himalayan Garden near Sevenoaks in Kent #staircasesaturday #saturdaysteps
St Michael and All Angels, Howick, Northumberland, rebuilt in 1848 in neo-Norman style. Situated on the Howick estate, and burial place of 2nd Earl Grey (as in the tea, and PM 1830-34: Great Reform Act & Slavery Abolition Act) #steeplesaturday
