isn’t it dreamy?

and no amount of talking is going to soften the fall, but, like after the rain, step out of the overhang. that's all.

[theinternetarchive]

'women picking olives,' oil on canvas, vincent van gogh, dutch c. 1889.

[aura-eden]

Gustav Klimt, The Virgin, 1913

[farewell-to-lorien]

Illustrations for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves | Shiosai | 潮騒, by Lâm Tùng Nguyễn.

[beatricecenci]

Merab Abramishvili (Georgian, 1957-2006)

Dancer

[reunionsdereve]

Indigenous children take part in the process of fishing and drying large Salmon catches, a Nivkh community in Kamchatka, Russia

[leprincelointain-deactivated201]

George Seeley (1880-1955) - 1907

[7pleiades7]

Daphnis and Chloé (also known as Narcisse) (c. 1870) by Édouard-Théophile Blanchard, oil on canvas, 64 x 168 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

[7pleiades7]

Élégant chers au repos à côté d'un étang (Elegant ladies at rest beside a pond) (n/d) by Louis Adan (French, 1839 – 1937), signed (bottom right): ‘Emile Adan’, oil on canvas, 78 cm (30.7 in) x 122 cm (48 in), Private Collection

[henk-heijmans]

A bison grazing amidst Geysir fumes in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, USA, 1995 - by Thomas Hoepker (1936), German

[ltwilliammowett]

Squall to Windward, by Mark Richard Myers (1945-)

[darkrook]

The Murder of the Sons of Edward IV, Oil on canvas, 1835, Theodor Hildebrandt

[global-musings]

With the approach of New Year,  Lê Phổ | Vietnamese

[ltwilliammowett]

Rounding Cape Horn, by Montague Dawson (1890-1973)

[browndresswithwhitedots]

Józef Chełmoński "Noc gwiaździsta" (Starry Night) 1888 / oil on canvas

[7pleiades7]

The Sleeping Beauty from the small Briar Rose series, (Details), (c. 1872), by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (English, 1833 – 1898), oil on canvas, 60 cm × 115 cm (24 in × 45 in), Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico

[periodinteriors]

William Burges, Design for Truro Cathedral (unexecuted), c. 1878, pencil and watercolour.

[oldpaintings]

The Death of William the Conqueror, 1885 by Albert Maignan (French, 1845–1908)