Tales of the Oakenwyld

darrenshilson:

Unity Wood Engine House on Flickr.

One of the locations I studied when creating Wheal Felicity, the location of the Delve in SWIFT…

furtho:

Adrian Paul Allinson’s The Cornish April (via BBC - Your Paintings)

lizardking90:

Always nice reading with a friend.

Photographer Ellen D. Hartlmeier

Martin, stop showing off.

easternfeathers:

Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing.

kristin-briana:

In which a whole city in Australia goes underground. 

Somewhat unsurprisingly, I did a fair bit of reading about Coober Pedy when trying to envision the Delve for SWIFT. Different environment obviously, but similar ideas…

The father of one of my young readers found this list on his coffee table tonight. He photographed it and sent it to me with the note “Apparently Sarah is really enjoying your last book.”

In all the scramble of deadlines and rewrites and copyedits and promotion, it’s sometimes easy for writers to forget why we do this. Until we get something like this from a reader, and everything falls into perspective again.

loveyourchaos:

Love this hair cut.

More pictures that remind me of Ivy… I think she’d like her hair this way, too. Certainly the colour and texture, and the shape of the curls, is perfect.

(Source: shorthaired, via plenilune)

mineralists:

A Crystal Crab! o: Cluster of fully terminated orange Quartz coated with Iron Oxide.
Boylston, Canada

(via drakyndra)