a semi-transparent envelope

Beautiful stuff.

[lunasabatica]

Unknown artist, Il trionfo della morte (The Triumph of Death), 1446. Palazzo Sclafani, Palermo, Italy.

[deathandmysticism]

Les Diableries, a series of stereoscopic photographs published in Paris during the 1860s

[ducissatenebrarum]

Catholic vestments;  Requiem chasuble 

[lesbianartandartists]

Nicole Eisenman, We Woz ‘Ere, 2004 ink on paper 36″ x 60″

[switchteams]

submitted by mhi23 

[allthingseurope]

Sidmouth, Devon (by Baz Richardson)

[nubbsgalore]

[nubbsgalore]

photos by mark smith and mark bridger who document, respectively, the fox and the deer who roam london and its suburban environs at night in search of food. the skittish deer tend dine on residential gardens, while the fox look for discarded take out which litters the streets. 

there are now 16 foxes for every square mile of london, who share sidewalks with pedestrians and raise cubs in people’s backyards. foxes have even sneaked into the houses of parliament, while another broke into buckingham palace, eating one of the queen’s prized flamingos. 

that said, a survey by the london based mammal society found that 80 percent of londoners liked having the fox around, with wildlife experts refuting the claims by some that the population of the animal is either growing or becoming more aggerssive in character.

[allthingseurope]

Lucca, Italy (by David McSpadden)

[didoofcarthage]

O what a sweetness strayed Through barren Thebaid Or by the Mareotic sea When that exultant Anthony And twice upon a thousand more Starved upon the shore And withered to a bag of bones! What had the Caesars but their thrones?

W.B. Yeats, “Demon and Beast” (via didoofcarthage)

[energiaz]

Norwich, England.

Matheus Carvalho

[radiantaffliction-blog]

I had absolutely no way of saying How vivid can be unemphatic, how bright can be brighter Than brightness.

'Small Rain,' by Norman Maccaig

[laughingsquid]

Remarkable Driftwood Animal Sculptures by Jeffro Uitto

[outdoormagic]

Great Egret with Plumes by PicturingLight

[glitzandgrandeur]

Light reflecting through a stained glass window onto a wall mosaic. 

Photograph taken at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic, by Susan, of Glitz & Grandeur.

[alwaysabeautifullife]

This made my day

[apoemaday]

I Have Not Had One Word from Her

by Sappho

I have not had one word from her Frankly I wish I were dead. When she left, she wept a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.” I said, “Go, and be happy but remember (you know well) whom you leave shackled by love If you forget me, think of our gifts to Aphrodite and all the loveliness that we shared all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck myrrh poured on your head and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song …”

[lesbianartandartists]

Chloe Atkins, Girls’ Night Out: Midori and Karen, 1998

[dappertomboy]

Beach Gear