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Back to the usual "wtf is that?" standard for a bonus image today, as for once we're not actually in the clouds.

#ShitBirdPhotos
As usual, a photo of my willow tree with a bird in it.
#shitbirdphotos
Coles Street Pothole 💀
#Skills At least this one doesn't make me have a creeping feeling of dread.
#skills
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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
No, but this one might 😂
It's something to do with the way the shadow forms on the fence beneath the honeysuckle vines. Anyway ... 👻
Can you see the bird?
Picture of my back fence with the denuded vines of clematis and honeysuckle, plus some random greenery. On the far left, sitting on a spiky bush thing, is a robin.
Coles Street Pothole 💀
I can't see the bird. I zoomed back a bit, though, and think you're avoiding the real subject of the image. Oh, wait—now I see the bird.
The painting Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais. In a tangled thicket, a red-haired lass drowns in a pool.
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😂
Robin - bottom left corner 😉
Coles Street Pothole 💀
😉 In both images . . . which is one of the reasons I picked Ophelia.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Not a robin in the first pic I'm afraid. And I don't get the connection with Hamlet?
Coles Street Pothole 💀
I mean these two—isn't there a robin on the left side of each? And no connection to Hamlet—the subject was chosen only for the visual similarity.
A dark tangle of vegetation. The blorb of color on the left may be a robin.
Millais' painting of Ophelia. One the left, away from the drowning lass, is what looks like a robin.
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
That's some spot! I'd never noticed the robin in the Millais.
Coles Street Pothole 💀
I've pored over Millais' painting for a fair bit so this guy came quick to mind!
A tangled thicket with a robin in it.
Coles Street Pothole 💀
(1) I love paintings of nature, and this is a banger in that regard. (2) Ophelia is a banger of a character. (3) I found myself standing in front of this painting at the Tate with some time on my hands. So, I spent like half an hour looking at it.
Coles Street Pothole 💀
😎 I had to find a bigger version to look more closely. Fascinating. The lilies look 3D.
https://friendica-leipzig.de/photo/media/632401
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
It's impossible to tell on a screen, and even on a print, but the lanterns in the original seem almost to radiate heat and light. It's extraordinary.
Coles Street Pothole 💀
Annnnd, I just now realized that my coworker, who I do video calls with almost daily, has a print of Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose hanging on the wall behind her in every call. 😆
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
You have a better class of colleague. Apart from the ones doing Corporate Mandated Exercise, obvs 😂
MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
Position correct, but it's a nuthatch I'm afraid.
Thanks for playing 😁
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