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Sven @ephemeral

Belgian medievalist in the Northern Netherlands. 🦊 Still figuring out if I like this app or not.

Oops I Did It Again (Impulsively Purchased a Plant at the Garden Centre)

The moon knows all my secrets

Phantasmagoria in Groningen

I am sometimes a fox, and sometimes a lion.

It seems peaceful enough now but this place was actually a battlefield - where I was besieged by hordes of mosquitoes 🦟

Now who would like their fortune told? 🔮

“I could live there all alone, she thought . . . No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. . . . People will come to me to have their fortunes told, and I will brew love potions for sad maidens.”

Et in Arcadia ego

Natura Artis Magistra (Els Otten)

Into the Celtic Garden

“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”

What if we went into the secret grotto... haha, just kidding... unless...

Today is World Lion Day. 🦁 From medieval bestiaries to Ming statues, to the Lion King — something seems to fascinate us about imagining the lion as a symbol of power, strength, and leadership, and as a fierce and devoted guardian.

a little something cobbled together from my current junk mail folder

“Animals have an independent mental capacity of memory and they can, in the singing nightingale, in the darkest night, sense the longing of the beings who listen.” – Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert

Favourite man in my life right now (and he’s not even mine - oops)

This golden kimono is definitely coming with me to the Amsterdam Pride this weekend

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1487-1488), presumably by Michelangelo. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum.

This weekend, I made a new friend (I don’t know his name, but I’ve taken to calling him James). Today, as though sensing my post-date moodiness, he came over for snuggles at exactly the right time 🥰

Another dopamine plant purchase, oops

Saint-Nicolas (Nantes)

Voyage into the Extraordinary Garden (Nantes)

Apocalypse Tapestry (Château d’Angers)

Haunting prisoner art by Pascal di Péri (Château d’Angers)

The world was hanging by a thread

“Soon he was lost to view, still trumpeting and stamping far away. [...] Sam drew a deep breath, ‘An Oliphant it was!’ he said. ‘So there are Oliphants, and I have seen one. What a life!’”

Carrousel des mondes marins (Nantes) 🪼

I debated way too long if I should post this 🙈

Up in the wonderful heron tree

I urge you to accept me as your ruler

The Atlantic Ocean was calling to me

The Penchateau chapel looked better irl than expected!