Lynne S
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Books, art and tea. Curiouser and curiouser. Cats 🐈
In the twilight rain these brilliant-hued hibiscus A lovely sunset Matsuo Bashō Utagawa Hiroshige #BookWormSat
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Love in Several Masques Henry Fielding Frédéric Soulacroix #BookWormSat
In Scottish folklore, if the raven calls before the crow, fair weather follows. If the crow calls before the raven, expect storms. Debbie Clark #WyrdWednesday
The Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) John Gerrard Keulemans 1842-1912 #OwlishMonday
I saw a row of hollyhocks, Demure and stately-tall, They peep'd above a hedge of box, Like maidens in brocaded frocks, Who nodded one and all. Hollyhocks / Radclyffe Hall Barbara Cleary #BookWormSat
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon The Owl and The Pussycat Edward Lear L Leslie Brooke #BookWormSat
The Roche-aux-Fées dolmen or Fairies’ Rock in Essé, Brittany is said to have been built by the Fairy Viviane and her Court in a single night. #WyrdWednesday
The sun is rich And gladly pays In golden hours, Silver days, And long green weeks That never end. June / John Updike Wilhelm Amberg #BookWormSat
Perseus saw them dancing around the charmed tree. How Perseus slew the Gorgon 1910 Howard Davie #WyrdWednesday
A Lady Reading c1910-11 Gwen John b. #OnThisDay 1876 Haverfordwest, Wales #art Tate Britain
The faery forest glimmered Beneath an ivory moon, The silver grasses shimmered Against a faery tune. The Faery Forest Sara Teasdale 𝖨𝖽𝖺 𝖱𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗎𝗅 𝖮𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗐𝖺𝗂𝗍𝖾 #BookWormSat
When a Robin approaches the house and pecks at the glass, it indicates severe weather is on the way - of which they have a presentiment. The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Natural Phenomena Thomas F Forster, 1927 Iris Nakamura #FolkloreThursday
Bird of Paradise Paradisea apoda 1875-1888 John Gould National Gallery of Art
That’s the place to get to - nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere. Women in Love D. H. Lawrence Antal Neogrády #BookWormSat
The Valley of Mexico 1877 José María Velasco Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico
Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games. The Summer Queen Elizabeth Chadwick Eleanor of Aquitaine F Sandys #BookWormSat
At this moment a light gleamed on the wall … I thought the swift-darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Fritz Eichenberg #PhantomsFriday
When Jane Morris cast off her corset in favour of loose, romantic clothing, and lived an unconventional lifestyle with Rossetti, she was following a trend set by the artists and intellectuals of 19th century Paris, known as “bohémiens” D G Rossetti #WyrdWednesday