Here I am, a rabbit hearted girl

This is a gift, it comes with a price Who is the lamb and who is the knife? Midas is king and he holds me so tight And turns me to gold in the sunlight

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The bell jar

[sewercentipede]

moonstone 1 / 2 / 3 / 4

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium, circa 1839-1846 (Houghton Library, Harvard)

[creativeanchorage]

I was going through my mom’s stamp collection and automatically started organizing them in categories.  Here’s nature: flowers & animals.

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Ode to Masturbation”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[ohmycavalier]

I’ve been adding some new things to my Society6 shop, including these leaf and fern prints, and a few variations on these.

They are available in sizes from 8x10 inch up to 28X36 inch !

And everything is 30% off right now!

[annedebretagneduchesseensabots]

Baroque Sun 

San Giorgio a Cremano,  Campania, Italy

Photography by Vittorio Pandolfi, January 2020

[bessejohann]

Poppies 2021

Johann Besse

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Sometimes in the evening, around twilight, I’m unable to hold back my tears. But then I pull myself together again.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galateia Kazantzaki wr. c. July 1922

[plumslices]

“A Victorian chatelaine is essentially a tool belt of a highly personal nature. Picture a Swiss Army knife crossed with a charm bracelet and you’ll start to get the idea. Nineteenth-century chatelaines are highly customized to suit the needs of their individual owners; the two elements they all share are the clip, which hangs them from their owner’s waist, and a series of chains hanging from that clip to tether various accessory tools.”

—​Excerpted from This Victorian Life, by Sarah A. Chrisman, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.

[libbyframe]

Night Blooms

[dolcesostenuto]

the princess room in What a girl wants, 2003

[4mericana9othic]

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“Moscou la Bleue” (c. 1920′s), by Leonid Brailowsky (1867-1937)

[petalove]

"Flowers are divine, they have divine qualities that I adore. And they also connect me with femininity."

[hetnationaleballet]

Dutch national ballet corps dancers backstage during a performance of La Bayadere, Wendoline Wijkstra in the middle and in the left corner is Michaela DePrince.

[nineteenthcenturyportraits]

Portrait of Jenny Lind, 1862, by Eduard Magnus (1799-1872)