Christopher Robin came down from the Forest feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit, and he thought that if he stood on the bridge and watched the river, he would know everything that there was to be known. ~A.A.Milne #BankHolidayMonday

“Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.”

John Cheever, born 27th May 1912

SINGING CONDUCTOR - RETIRED
it's official I have the framed rail ticket to prove it 😆👍
( thx to my daughter EMMA for the creativity )

This is the 16-year-old English actress Ellen Terry. But you haven't seen her in any recent blockbuster, not least because the photo was taken 160 years ago, during the height of the American Civil War, and 3 decades before moving film was even invented! This astonishingly

‘Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine’ #ShakespeareSunday
Eglantine – a wild rose – comes from Latin aculentus 'prickly' (via Old French aiglent).
In Maytime hedgerows are over-canopied with the loveliness of wild dog roses🌸

This still life by Jacques-Emile Blanche from 1889 demonstrates the qualities of his early paintings, how controlled he was in applying paint, and the beautiful harmonious interplay of objects and light: the balanced knife a nod to the genius of Chardin.

Languor is upon your heart and the slumber is still on your eyes.

Has not the word come to you that the flower is reigning in splendour among thorns? Wake, oh awaken! let not the time pass in vain!

𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘫𝘢𝘭𝘪

#MyGarden

Wonderful sheep!
#DouglasStrachan 1938 #KilbrandonChurch BSMGP #StainedGlassSunday

Medieval stained glass from the porch of St. Mary`s Church at Dymock in Gloucestershire. #StainedGlassSunday 📸 My own.

When Sorolla painted 'Niña en mar
plateado,' in 1909, it was amongst the most luminous, brilliant, and freely handled works he had produced; he was on the threshold of becoming one of Spain's most celebrated artists. The newspaper 'La Nación' reported in 1906 that 'Sorolla is

Obsession
Watercolor-2x24 inches
Life is so short - What do you most love to do? The only gardens that grow are those that receive sunlight and water
#art #architecture #imagination #dream #painting

Good Sunday morning Cape Cod!
There’s a brief, beautiful moment when the ocean catches the first sigh of sunrise — a silent herald of the day ahead.
#sunrise #capecod

James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James
Said to his Mother,
“Mother,” he said, said he;
“You must never go down to the end of the town,
if you don’t go down with me.”
~A.A.Milne #SundayMorning

Sunlight 1909 #FrankWestonBenson

Art Nouveau tile mosaic, Brussels, Belgium. Artist unknown.

Good Saturday morning Cape Cod!
Today’s sunrise from Marconi beach, Wellfleet.
#sunrise #capecod #beachlife

Piglet didn’t feel very brave, for the word which was jiggeting about in his brain was “Heffalumps”.
What was a Heffalump like?
Was it Fierce?
He didn’t know the answer…
Of course Pooh would be with him, and it was much more Friendly with two.
#brave #friendlywithtwo

COOL FINDS: Austrian Man Discovers Hundreds of Mammoth Bones While Renovating His Wine Cellar | Andreas Pernerstorfer thought he’d found a piece of wood, then remembered something his grandfather had said about finding teeth in the cellar decades ago. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aus…

See the Graffiti Bored British Soldiers Carved Into a Castle Door More Than 200 Years Ago | The soldiers were stationed at Dover in case of invasion by French troops led by Napoleon Bonaparte, used knives or bayonets to make the graffiti btw 1789 & 1855. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see…

Soldiers Put an Ancient Greek Suit of Armor to the Test, It Passed | Smithsonian | Researchers outfitted Greek marines in replicas of a Mycenaean suit and simulated combat to see if the armor was usable in its day. Indeed, it transformed the battlefield. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sol…