Scintillating sundews

Recycled garden room

Shadows and footprint on slate

Tent decoration at Chelsea Flower Show

Friend of Laughing Snail

Captain Sparrow hangout?

Shades of Mardi Gras

A feersum enjin on parade through St Francisville

Master Tambourineman

Cute, castanet-playing cherub

Lichen coated fence

Echinacea

Lichen and spanish moss on the wrought iron fence

No, it didn't just lay an egg.

Gobbler

A pair of pairs - no laces.

Anyone for a glass of ...........?

The washing machine.

Refreshments, Baton Rouge style

Baton rouge of Baton Rouge

Sweeping staircase

Inside the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge

Amazing ceiling

Inside the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge

Could this be the Opposition

Political Dragonfly

Spotted by the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge.

The Musicians, Baton Rouge

Building detail, Baton Rouge

 

This is an Italian guitar made in Venice in 1627 by Giorgio Sellas.
Seen from the front this guitar resembels the familiar Spanish guitar but, unlike the Spanish guitar it has a deeply rounded back, resembling the back of a lute. The back is splendidly inlaid with scrolling tendrils of ivory, sprouting leaves and grotesque heads. Giorgio Sellas and his brother Matteo were instument makers of German origin, based in Venice.


Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.