Poppies.
In a local field, last year.

don't give up
©Niphisi

From the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii ~ remarkably well-observed frescoes of doves drinking at a golden bowl / and a purple gallinule striding through a garden landscape (photos; Oleg Belaychuk) ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/…

Décidément, on ne peut plus faire la sieste sans être dérangé ! 😂

Photographie surprenante prise lors de la construction des pyramides d'Égypte en 1750 avant JC. Vraiment impressionnant!

“Rendo Grazie”o “Dedica” (mi scuseranno i signori di lingua tedesca) doveva essere un “grazie” ripreso dal poeta H. von Gilm per ringraziare la zia di Strauss per non so che cosa

(Un tedesco un giorno mi disse che i lieder, Schubert compreso erano per ubriaconi da pub
Perle ai…

Nel 1990 ho avuto la fortuna di ascoltare a Manchester Kiri Te Kanawa e Georg Solti negli ultimi 4 lieder di Strauss. Alla fine del concerto lei ha cantato Zueignung.
Due grandissimi, indimenticabili giganti della musica e io, piccolo moscerino senza meriti ero lì

“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger, 'A Girl I Knew'
#Literature

An ivory crab netsuke made by Japanese sculptor Jugyoku during the 19th century. This piece is currently in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

Temple of Seti I (Abydos) by Ernst Koerner (German, 1846-1927), 1926. Medium: oil/canvas

Quando passo di lì i rami si inchinano.
E non solo perché sono la loro regina ma soprattutto vogliono sapere quale musica desidero ascoltare: sé quella dell’acqua o del vento nelle foglie.
E una delle due, per compiacermi, tacerà

Joanna Sztyrak
Pastwisko Welesa
cykl 'Słowiańskie Zaświaty'

And yet there is reason for hope. The students are our hope. The students have done what the so-called adults in the room couldn't do: begin an honest, real-world discussion about war, prejudice, and social injustice, today involving Palestine but eventually taking in all the…

Sempé
Jardin

Good morning Alexandre !
Alexandre H.L. Porto

The final destination…

Goodnight Alexandre ! Alexandre H.L. Porto

©️Paolo_domeniconi

'Purple Irises',
an ōban tate-e from the series 'Floral Calendar of Japan', c. 1950s,
by Kawarazaki Shodo (河原崎奨堂; 1889-1973), a Japanese painter and designer of floral subjects, published by Unsōdō (芸艸堂) of Kyōto.

via Jaded in Japan

Dirk Wüstenhagen Imagery

Boy alone on a beach