Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

blue kentucky girl

[aura-eden]

Edgar Degas, Musiciens à l’orchestre 1870/71

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Memento Mori ring with the engraving “Remember you must die,” 1700.

[artessenziale]

flowers by Gustav Klimt, details

[therurrjurr]

Monastery of Saint Benedict in Nursia (Norcia, Umbria, Italy)

[mushfromnewsies]

“God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.”

— Pope Benedict XVI (via twocrowns)

[wild-cabins]

FORESTBOUND

[aura-eden]

Details of The Madonna of the Magnificat - 1481; The Cestello Annunciation - 1489; The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel - 1490, by Sandro Botticelli

[hauntedgardenbook]

Silk embroidery from the period of the Arts and Crafts movement in England, illustrating the nursery rhyme ‘My Lady’s Garden’. The design is attributed to artist and illustrator Walter Crane. Needlework artist not known. Ca. late 1880s?

[paintingispoetry]

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Annunciazione, 1904

[aura-eden]

Sandro Botticelli, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, detail - 1492

[parkstone-international]

Edward Hopper

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

From the article, Wild and Soft Is Joni Mitchell. published January 11, 1969.

[history-of-fashion]

1844-1846 Day Gown

(FIDM Museum)

[mycountryliving]

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

[girlinthepark]

Raphael Rivest | Alhambra, Spain. 

[ms-mandy-m]

Edible flowers