"Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough…" #TreeFlowers found for this week’s #WildflowerHour challenge; crab apple, oak, wayfaring tree, hawthorn, holly, sycamore, and wild cherry. #nature

Evening dress, 1865. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Evening Dress & Matching Spencer, c.1820. Blue woven silk with silver floral trellis design. V&A #FashionHistory collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O361666/e…

Evening dress, 1865. Kobe Fashion Museum.

Legend tells that a piece of sky falling to earth caught a spark from a star as it passed. From the place in the grass where the sky landed a tiny blue flower grew, the star's spark shining brightly at its centre. The star whispered to it "forget-me-not" #FolkloreThursday #nature

Evening dress, mid-1850s. Kent State University Museum.

Mia Tarney (British Artist, born 1973) 'Duchess Peony', 2007. Oil on Linen, 137.2 × 152.4 cm. Private Collection.

Boots by F. Pinet, 1877-78. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Evening dress by House of Worth, 1866-68. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Scandinavian #folklore tells that each year the rainbow goddess Iris accompanies Spring and Summer painting the Earth with colour. One year when they reached the last plants, they only had purple and white left. They splashed it over & thus created the first Lilac blooms. #nature

The Foggy Dew. This tune first appeared in Edward Bunting's The Ancient Music of Ireland (1840) but it's best known for the lyrics given to it by Charles O’Neill that tell of the events that began this day, 24th of April, in 1916 🇮🇪

The meticulous process of handcrafting a traditional felt top hat in the old fashioned way. [📹 Hornskov Hats]

Sitting here, listening to the birds serenade the bluebells as they grow, while a fallow deer stag watches me intently in the trees ahead. Those who know me know I need this now. It is the most glorious feeling

Watercolourist in the Louvre (c.1889) by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (French artist, lived 1852–1929). A painter, painting a painter painting. 🎨

Wedding dress, 1868. Cincinnati Art Museum.

🌷 Is there a more beautiful staircase than this 😍 🌷 The iconic Tulip Stairs are one of the original features of the Queen's House in Greenwich. It's the first geometric self-supporting spiral staircase in Britain.

A trio of Regency belles, all in a row. In Pride & Prejudice this might be the Meryton Ball with Lizzy, Jane & Charlotte surveying the aristocrats but the gowns are quite fancy. Maybe it is snooty Caroline Bingley & pals instead. I can almost hear Mrs Bennet shrieking #DARmuseum

Review: Carnage from the Cursed Crown by Deb Marlowe #KierAndLevettMysteries #ExcellentRead #VictorianMystery #VictorianRomance #HistoricalRomance Deb Marlowe #NewRelease Dragonblade Publishing, Inc. NetGalley #NetGalley bookbub.com/reviews/101331… via BookBub

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