Hannah
@silver-thistle.bsky.social
Bibliophile & full-time day dreamer in SoCal
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” ― Louisa May Alcott
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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” ― Louisa May Alcott
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New exhibit of Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She did amazing still life paintings that included #invertebrates, and was famous in her lifetime yet hardly known today. Check out the amazing samples online 🪲🎨 www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer
“A tableau of earthly riches”–Boston GlobeIn the still life paintings of Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750), floral bouquets appear alive and rich with movement: petals and stems droop and rise an...
www.mfa.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
New exhibit of Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She did amazing still life paintings that included #invertebrates, and was famous in her lifetime yet hardly known today. Check out the amazing samples online 🪲🎨 www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
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Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
July 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
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Julia Child taught us to enjoy cooking.
Arthur taught us to appreciate our differences, to get along with one another.
Dragon Tales taught us to accept challenges, to believe it’s okay to make mistakes.
The Kratt Brothers taught us to respect and care for animals.
What did PBS teach you? 💙🩵
Arthur taught us to appreciate our differences, to get along with one another.
Dragon Tales taught us to accept challenges, to believe it’s okay to make mistakes.
The Kratt Brothers taught us to respect and care for animals.
What did PBS teach you? 💙🩵
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Julia Child taught us to enjoy cooking.
Arthur taught us to appreciate our differences, to get along with one another.
Dragon Tales taught us to accept challenges, to believe it’s okay to make mistakes.
The Kratt Brothers taught us to respect and care for animals.
What did PBS teach you? 💙🩵
Arthur taught us to appreciate our differences, to get along with one another.
Dragon Tales taught us to accept challenges, to believe it’s okay to make mistakes.
The Kratt Brothers taught us to respect and care for animals.
What did PBS teach you? 💙🩵
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"What did PBS shows teach you?"
Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy.
Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends.
Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.
Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy.
Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends.
Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"What did PBS shows teach you?"
Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy.
Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends.
Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.
Mister Rogers taught us feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Reading Rainbow taught us discovering books is joy.
Sesame Street taught us learning through the kindness of community by way of our friends.
Bill Nye taught us to observe wonder through science.
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"... the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time."
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Interior of the Forest
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1894)
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Interior of the Forest
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1894)
May 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"... the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time."
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Interior of the Forest
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1894)
~ D.H. Lawrence
The Interior of the Forest
🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1894)
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Fantastic Friday Words 🥳
Pick your winner ⭐️
A B
C D
(Follow for more)
Pick your winner ⭐️
A B
C D
(Follow for more)
May 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Fantastic Friday Words 🥳
Pick your winner ⭐️
A B
C D
(Follow for more)
Pick your winner ⭐️
A B
C D
(Follow for more)
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Studies of a delphinium, hawk-moth, and caddis fly, via Victoria & Albert Museum.
May 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Studies of a delphinium, hawk-moth, and caddis fly, via Victoria & Albert Museum.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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Things I wish for you:
That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.
That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.
April 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Things I wish for you:
That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.
That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.
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If you dream of flowers:
A field of wildflowers - freedom
Anemone - you will be betrayed in love
Daffodil - resolve any conflicts you have
Iris - expect good news
Snowdrop - speak to a friend
Primrose - you will make a new friend
🖼️ Franz Xaver Petter
A field of wildflowers - freedom
Anemone - you will be betrayed in love
Daffodil - resolve any conflicts you have
Iris - expect good news
Snowdrop - speak to a friend
Primrose - you will make a new friend
🖼️ Franz Xaver Petter
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you dream of flowers:
A field of wildflowers - freedom
Anemone - you will be betrayed in love
Daffodil - resolve any conflicts you have
Iris - expect good news
Snowdrop - speak to a friend
Primrose - you will make a new friend
🖼️ Franz Xaver Petter
A field of wildflowers - freedom
Anemone - you will be betrayed in love
Daffodil - resolve any conflicts you have
Iris - expect good news
Snowdrop - speak to a friend
Primrose - you will make a new friend
🖼️ Franz Xaver Petter
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Goodnight.
Månesskinn (Moonlight), Harald Sohlberg, 1907.
Månesskinn (Moonlight), Harald Sohlberg, 1907.
March 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Goodnight.
Månesskinn (Moonlight), Harald Sohlberg, 1907.
Månesskinn (Moonlight), Harald Sohlberg, 1907.
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Hase in Landschaft, Carl Franz Gruber.
March 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Hase in Landschaft, Carl Franz Gruber.
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An explosion, a firework, of flowers. By Juan van der Hamen y León, who died (alas!) on this day in 1631.
March 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An explosion, a firework, of flowers. By Juan van der Hamen y León, who died (alas!) on this day in 1631.
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A word to treasure...
March 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A word to treasure...
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"Make what you have the nucleus of what you want" this 1920s gardening book is my mentor now
March 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Make what you have the nucleus of what you want" this 1920s gardening book is my mentor now
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Dancing Fairies
by August Malmström
by August Malmström
February 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dancing Fairies
by August Malmström
by August Malmström
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John Atkinson Grimshaw - 'Spirit of the Night,' 1879
February 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
John Atkinson Grimshaw - 'Spirit of the Night,' 1879
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The books that are dearest to me are a part of my DNA, their words woven into the fiber of my being, so much so that I cannot imagine myself without them.
(art by Frances Cochiacchio)
(art by Frances Cochiacchio)
February 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The books that are dearest to me are a part of my DNA, their words woven into the fiber of my being, so much so that I cannot imagine myself without them.
(art by Frances Cochiacchio)
(art by Frances Cochiacchio)
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French trade card. 1880s.
February 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
French trade card. 1880s.
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Goodnight.
The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891,
St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.
The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891,
St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.
February 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Goodnight.
The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891,
St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.
The Cloud Ships on a Windy Night, 1891,
St. Nicholas Vol. 18: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.
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Daffodils, Edward H. Mitchell, c.1910.
February 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Daffodils, Edward H. Mitchell, c.1910.
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Rabbit amid Ferns and Flowering Plants
William J. Webbe, 1855.
William J. Webbe, 1855.
February 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Rabbit amid Ferns and Flowering Plants
William J. Webbe, 1855.
William J. Webbe, 1855.
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🖼️ Mary Delaney
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🖼️ Mary Delaney
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Curious Barn Owls in UK Church Window. Photo by Richard Brooks contentinacottage.blogspot.com/2018/05/curi... #OwlishMonday
February 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Curious Barn Owls in UK Church Window. Photo by Richard Brooks contentinacottage.blogspot.com/2018/05/curi... #OwlishMonday
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#BookWormSat “I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#BookWormSat “I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre