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🌿 Jasmine Nightshade in Soft Light

Jasmine nightshade is one of those plants that earns a second look. Delicate white blossoms, lavender buds, and bright yellow stamens soften the fact that it belongs to the nightshade family, where beauty and toxicity often grow side by side.

Photographed with a macro lens.

#teaandthorns #macro photography #botanical photography #jasmine flowers #nightshade #softlight #botanicals #botanic garden #SoundCloud

A Grimacing Pixie Keeper of Mischief

Where certainty grows proud and tall,

I release one whisper through it all.

Where every path declares it knows,

I plant the doubt from which it grows.

Thorn remember, briar keep.

Wake the roots that never sleep.

Shift each stone and bend each trail.

Teach proud footsteps how to fail.

Trade the ravens path with deer.

Hide the obvious ever near.

Leave no footprint, leave no face.

Then I vanish without a trace.

No eye shall catch the hand I lend.

Every straight road learns to bend.

Smile unseen, then slip the glade.

Mischief managed. Debts all paid.

No witness keeps what none can see.

The forest keeps my secrecy.

One laugh carried on the breeze.

Mischief managed if you please.

- Michele Gandee

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-grimacing-pixie-keeper-of-mischief-michele-gandee.html

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#mischief managed #pixie dust #fairycore #fairy art #dark acadamia aesthetic #incantations #poetry #art and poetry #fairies #mischievous #fae folk

Lanterns Over the Water transforms a quiet waterside scene into an enchanted midnight dreamscape. Glowing paper lanterns drift beneath a luminous Milky Way while a couple shares a quiet moment in a small rowboat, surrounded by historic architecture, dark trees, colorful water lilies, and shimmering reflections. The original photograph has been reimagined through digital editing and artistic manipulation, transforming an ordinary daytime setting into a romantic, surreal world where the familiar becomes dreamlike and otherworldly.

Created from an original photograph used with permission, this artwork combines photography, digital manipulation, fantasy art, and painterly visual treatment to create a cinematic nocturnal atmosphere.

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https://fineartamerica.com/featured/romantic-lanterns-over-riverside-romance-michele-gandee.html

#cottagecore #dark acadamia aesthetic #nature is magical #paper lantern #romanticism #painterly

A winding footpath disappears beneath Mediterranean vegetation in Clapiers, France, a quiet village just north of Montpellier in Occitanie. Beyond the reeds, shrubs, and tangled greenery, a vineyard lies almost completely hidden, shaping the landscape without demanding attention.

Places like this have a way of lingering. The scent of wild herbs, filtered sunlight, weathered stone, and the slow rhythm of the countryside create the kind of atmosphere that inspired Tea & Thorns—where nature, folklore, forgotten paths, and quiet observation meet.

This walk explores another corner of Southern France where vineyards, village life, and Mediterranean landscapes quietly overlap, inviting curiosity instead of spectacle.

📍Location: Clapiers, Hérault, Occitanie, France

Tea & Thorns explores hidden landscapes, woodland paths, folklore, village life, abandoned places, gardens, forests, and the quieter side of France and Europe through cinematic walks and atmospheric storytelling.

#cottagecore #dark acadamia aesthetic #grassy meadow #garden path #clapiers #montpellier #south france #sud de la france #nature is magical #dirt path #Youtube

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/oscar-wilde-geometric-portrait-michele-gandee.html

Oscar Wilde Geometric Portrait

Oscar Wilde remains one of the sharpest voices in literature, and his work still feels remarkably current. This contemporary portrait reimagines him through geometric forms and watercolor textures while keeping the focus on his unmistakable expression.

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

#oscar wilde #literary art #contemporaryart #abstract portrait #geometric #digital portrait #Spotify

🍂 Ready to Conjure Autumn? | Reflections Along the Canal in Nîmes

Enough.

This heatwave has had its moment.

So here’s a little act of seasonal rebellion from last autumn in Nîmes.

The canal is covered in burnt amber leaves drifting across reflections of an impossibly blue sky. More leaves fall from the trees with no concern for cameras or calendars, quietly turning the water into a moving canvas. Every direction offers another color, another reflection, another excuse to slow down for a few seconds.

My spouse brought me here for my birthday, and somewhere between the water, the trees, and the changing light, Nîmes delivered one of the most beautiful autumn scenes I’ve ever experienced.

Maybe it’s too early to wish summer away.

Then again… maybe not.

Are you ready to conjure autumn yet?

#autumncore #south france #sud de la france #occitanie #nimes #canals #Youtube

🌙 Enchanted Forest Cottage at Night

A cozy, illuminated cottage sits nestled in a dense forest. The surrounding trees and a calm stream enhance the tranquil atmosphere

#cottagecore #cottage academia #digital art #into the woods #dark forest

The Sitting Duck in the game of crowns 🐣👑

#ducks and geese #duckcore #duck art #wonderland #crown #your throne #game of thrones #fairy tales #fairytale art #tea party #crown jewels #margret

“You must tune everything else out and create from your heart."

I nod, dipping my brush in red acrylic, then white, before mixing the paints on the palette until they form a perfect pink.

I paint a peony, and then another. I somehow recall a garden, far away from here, where there were peonies. I remember the way the blossoms are so heavy that they flounce over, and I reach for another brush and dip it into green to get the stems just right.”

― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

#pink floral #floral art #peonies #cottagecore #digital painting #flower vase #classicstyle #pink aesthetic #tea party #cottage vibes #literature quotes #cottage aesthetic #garden aesthetic #japanese style #pink peonies

“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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The Claremont House is in the series Stranger Things.

Gothic Second Empire Victorian Architecture 1882’

Hamilton Yancey, Claremont’s original owner, was too young to serve in the Civil War – being only 12 to 16 in 1860-1864. But his family dubbed him “Colonel” as a young boy. He and Florence had 8 children, although their daughter Julia died at the age of 4. The other 7 had a grand time romping around the 8000 square feet of space, but their rooms were in the attic with the servants. The family lived in the cottage out back during the construction, so they had a close vantage point for every phase. The cottage now contains two of the inn’s guestrooms with a small kitchen and a bathroom. Hamilton Yancey is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, which sits atop one of Rome’s seven hills.

Claremont was named for Mrs. Yancey’s beloved cousin, Clare de Graffenried, and their youngest daughter was also named Clare. The mansard roof, slate tiles and 14-foot ceilings are typical of the style of architecture, but the ornate gingerbread trim was very unusual in the South at that time. It was said to have been brought down by northern builders who were familiar with it in other parts of the country.

📷 from @southern_girl_dreaming

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit