Ave, Maris Stella

Catholicism, pretty pictures, and other people's wise thoughts. Sometimes I am Suffering and there's venting. Usually telling stories and being snarky in tags 💁🏽‍♀️

[oldwinesoul]

[sitoutside]

[glimpsesofpeaceful]

ig credit: polly.florence

[frostedmagnolias]

Silk Evening Dress

c. 1850-1855

Philadelphia Museum of Art

[formlessformless]

You Could Go Anywhere but You Won’t, 2023 Photographed by Brooke DiDonato.

[nemfrog]

A rose and a rose hip (left panels) and a fruit tree blossom and forming fruit (right panels). What the World Eats. 1938.

Internet Archive

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Shawn Braley

[artisheaven]

Cyanotypes by Susan Tabor

[vanessagillings]

[twoweeks]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJLDwIdT9Ho

[cottageaesthetic]

[sapphosreincarnation]

Some of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies

The Mallow Fairy, 1934 and The Harebell Fairy, 1925

The Rose Fairy and the Forget Me Not fairy, 1925

1926

The Snowdrop Fairy and the Blackthorn Fairy 1925

1944

1944

1944

The Willow Fairy and the Laburnum Fairy, 1940

The Silver Birch Fairy and the Almond Blossom Fairy, 1940

The Guelder Rose Fairies (1940) and The Greater Celandine Fairy (1948)

1948

[baddreamland]

Hermit homes in the Russian wilderness. From the Escape series by Danila Tkachenko.

[toexploretheworld]

Baltit, Pakistan (by toufeeque)

[kwak89]

[dailyclassicart]

Maxfield Parrish - "Romance" (1922)

[gacougnol]

Constant Puyo (French, 1857-1933)

Young Woman by a Lily Pond, ca. 1903