Day 1,354: dexterously

They are just a few of the colourful, dexterously tied flies that fishing folk cast from their rods to lure trout and salmon in the rivers of Scotland, South Carolina, Russia’s Kola peninsula and beyond.

How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse

Artwork of the day 
Dexter, 'The King of The Turf'
Currier and Ives
Date: 1865
Style: Romanticism
Series: Horse Racing
Genre: genre painting

Word of the day 
dexterously: in a way that shows the ability to perform a difficult action quickly and skilfully with the hands, or the ability to think quickly and effectively

Quote of the day
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero