[willow]

I love roses, and I love rose petals! My ideal look is just to be covered in rose petals and leave a rose petal everywhere I’ve been just so everyone knows I’ve been there

[uroko]

Jardins de Claude Monet, Giverny

[perriaeyjeve]

[frostedmagnolias]

A Tangled Skein

by George Harcourt (Scottish, 1868-1947)

[petaltexturedskies]

I came home. I enjoyed my bath. I enjoyed perfuming myself. I knew I was born for this, to do it over and over again, the ritual of the dressing, the perfuming for love, for sensuality. I enjoyed everything sensually.

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947

[24kblk]

thomas hoepker. children cool off with open fire hydrants on a hot july weekend.

© 1983. harlem.

[boringangel]

natalie portman shot by autumn de wilde behind the scenes of black swan (2010) - via eliesaaab on twitter

[paintingispoetry]

Albert Aublet, "Selene", 1880

[rumineely]

[yourdeaddoll]

i’m like if a girl was a garden that was also a graveyard

[frostedmagnolias]

Ballet costume worn by Anna Pavlova for “The Swan”, silk and sequined cotton

believed to be worn c. 1910s-1920s

credit: Museum of London

[nixscriptum]

[garadinervi]

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

[cottaqecore]

natalie voglmayr

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

The Mirror (1975)

[petaltexturedskies]

Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Vera Slonim, written c. January 1924 featured in Letters to Véra

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Mary Bowles wr. c. August 1861