“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson (died 27 April 1882)
Maud Gonne (died 27 April 1953)
I even have a yellow dog sleeping at my feet. I’m just missing a gorgeous gown.
My soundtrack for the day:
The two examples of motion in this photograph are subtly connected:
City Market. Savannah, Georgia.
This is my entry in the Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion.
My mom is on a solo birthday-vacation in New York City. She snapped this pic yesterday, on a walk through Central Park. How pretty! How spring-like!
Central Park in springtime!
“The earth has music for those who listen.”-George Santayana
A Hymn to Spring by Cecil Gordon Lawson, 1871-1872
Spring Symphony by Abraham Manievich, 1912
Spring by Vitold Byalynitsky-Birulya, 1899
Marie Corelli died on 21 April 1924:
Portrait of Marie Corelli by F. Adrian
“No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.”-Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds
Mary Oliver Quote
View of Arles with Irises in the Foreground by Vincent van Gogh, May 1888
I’m taking part in this year’s The Great Villain Blogathon. My review of Blanche Fury (1948), starring Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger, is up on my blog Font and Frock.
Illicit Love is a Killing Thing
Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger in Blanche Fury (1948)
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