November is the month of poets, artists, thinkers, lovers and wanderers.

CHOOSE ONE 🎄

The Sydney Opera House illuminated with Gustav Klimt's The Tree of Life.

This animation from 1932 is a masterpiece. It was the first cartoon to win an Oscar.

"When I see the moon, I think of you."

The weirdness that is Victorian New Year's cards

Wishing you a magical New Year!🎉✨

The Lights shines everywhere, Nans van Leeuwen, 1952. #HappyNewYear #NewYear2026 #NewYearsEve

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/jap… #newyearseve #fireworks

Apartment Dwellers on New Year's Eve (1948), by John Falter

A, B, C or D? Claude Monet's vases of flowers

New year things. No speeches, no rankings — just a few paintings I liked living with. Thanks for following along, keeping me company, and indulging my love of light and interiors.😁 Here’s to a curious start to 2026 and seeing where the year takes us.🎉 #hello2026 #topnineenergy

Olya Haydamaka

Pressure doesn’t create character. It reveals it.

Had a few hours spare this morning 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Living Alone Paco Yao

🌅 There’s an afternoon moment when the kitchen stops being useful & starts being interesting. The tap turns silhouette, the flowers lean, and the light does the rest. I like paintings that seem to be waiting for nothing in particular. “An Ordinary Pause”, 40X40cm. Link in BIO.

"Life is a journey, not a destination." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winter's barcode

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology