Ad astra...to the stars

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...” -Marcus Aurelius

[apoemaday]

After Many Springs

by Langston Hughes

Now, In June, When the night is a vast softness Filled with blue stars, And broken shafts of moon-glimmer Fall upon the earth, Am I too old to see the fairies dance? I cannot find them any more.

[seraphinesaintclair]

Madison Julius Cawein, “Willow Wood”

[expressions-of-nature]

by Michael Gimenez Rodriguez de Vera

[pmamtraveller]

The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, by Greg Mort (1999)

[portalibis]

The Fountain of Diana, c. 1549, Louvre

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[anastole-deactivated20200206]

[requiem-on-water]

Philopoemen, hurt (detail) by David d'Angers

[chikurevo]

青の記憶

[nevver]

Irish summers, Harry Gruyaert

[venustapolis]

Moonlight, Church’s farm (Frederic Edwin Church, c. 1865)

[sakurabreeze]

Ohtsu Kazuyuki

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[nemfrog]

Golden bees. The honey bee. 1890. Book cover, detail.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

Sunrise in the Sunrise kingdom. 1904. Book cover detail. 

[filmreveries]

Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988) dir. Agnès Varda

[sun-kiss]

[barbietrice]

Jean-Louis Scherrer spring/summer couture (1999) ⚜️

[thetwilightgarden]