Wendalynn
@summerhouse.bsky.social
A lover of beauty and simplicity - with a touch of humour
Nova Scotia, Canada
Nova Scotia, Canada
"Alice in Wonderland"
🎨artist ~ Stephanie Law
🎨artist ~ Stephanie Law
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Alice in Wonderland"
🎨artist ~ Stephanie Law
🎨artist ~ Stephanie Law
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Image: Julio Velasco)
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Image: Julio Velasco)
March 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Image: Julio Velasco)
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Image: Julio Velasco)
"In Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester, a group of adorable mice save the day & make the fortune of a poor tailor, who has rescued them from his cat, by completing his work on a wedding suit for the local mayor."
Maude Frome
@frome_maude
Maude Frome
@frome_maude
March 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"In Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester, a group of adorable mice save the day & make the fortune of a poor tailor, who has rescued them from his cat, by completing his work on a wedding suit for the local mayor."
Maude Frome
@frome_maude
Maude Frome
@frome_maude
“— These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.” ~ Anton Chekhov
@InlibroV
@InlibroV
March 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“— These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.” ~ Anton Chekhov
@InlibroV
@InlibroV
March 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"There is no blue without yellow..."
~ Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Ribeiro
@fraveris
~ Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Ribeiro
@fraveris
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"There is no blue without yellow..."
~ Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Ribeiro
@fraveris
~ Vincent van Gogh
Francisco Ribeiro
@fraveris
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.”
~F.H. Burnett (1911) The Secret Garden
@Kerria
~F.H. Burnett (1911) The Secret Garden
@Kerria
February 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.”
~F.H. Burnett (1911) The Secret Garden
@Kerria
~F.H. Burnett (1911) The Secret Garden
@Kerria
"A refreshments trolley at Paddington Station. Sandwiches, snacks and drinks served in cups and saucers. London, 1937.
History Girl
@HistoryGirlBW
History Girl
@HistoryGirlBW
February 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"A refreshments trolley at Paddington Station. Sandwiches, snacks and drinks served in cups and saucers. London, 1937.
History Girl
@HistoryGirlBW
History Girl
@HistoryGirlBW
"spiders in your apartment after the landlord paints over them"
Robert Komaniecki
@Komaniecki_R
Robert Komaniecki
@Komaniecki_R
February 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"spiders in your apartment after the landlord paints over them"
Robert Komaniecki
@Komaniecki_R
Robert Komaniecki
@Komaniecki_R
"Harvesting tomatoes in Regent St. The ripe ones were picked every morning for use in the restaurant.
Taken In 1941"
@mongsley
Taken In 1941"
@mongsley
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Harvesting tomatoes in Regent St. The ripe ones were picked every morning for use in the restaurant.
Taken In 1941"
@mongsley
Taken In 1941"
@mongsley
Mayfair's a wee bit fed up with looking at nothing but snow out her window ... "Where are the leaves, where are the flowers, where are birds - other than crows, 'cause I'm not particularly fond of THEM !!"
February 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Mayfair's a wee bit fed up with looking at nothing but snow out her window ... "Where are the leaves, where are the flowers, where are birds - other than crows, 'cause I'm not particularly fond of THEM !!"
How exquisite is this ... one of the first hand-coloured photographs.
~ Paris 1918 ... (53 rue de cambon)
~ Paris 1918 ... (53 rue de cambon)
February 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
How exquisite is this ... one of the first hand-coloured photographs.
~ Paris 1918 ... (53 rue de cambon)
~ Paris 1918 ... (53 rue de cambon)
Toronto born Patty Maher's images are about the art of "story telling". Of all her amazing photographs, there is something about this one that draws me in, and makes me want to stay awhile. ...
(Image: "Call of the Wind" by Patty Maher)
(Image: "Call of the Wind" by Patty Maher)
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Toronto born Patty Maher's images are about the art of "story telling". Of all her amazing photographs, there is something about this one that draws me in, and makes me want to stay awhile. ...
(Image: "Call of the Wind" by Patty Maher)
(Image: "Call of the Wind" by Patty Maher)
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
January 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
“When we walk on the earth with reverence, great things decide to approach us. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us."
John O’Donohue / Image: Jamie Heiden Photography
John O’Donohue / Image: Jamie Heiden Photography
January 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“When we walk on the earth with reverence, great things decide to approach us. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us."
John O’Donohue / Image: Jamie Heiden Photography
John O’Donohue / Image: Jamie Heiden Photography
1951: Actress Katharine Hepburn, in costume, adjusting her hat in a mirror in the jungle, on location to film her motion picture "The African Queen".
Image: Eliot Elisofon
Image: Eliot Elisofon
January 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
1951: Actress Katharine Hepburn, in costume, adjusting her hat in a mirror in the jungle, on location to film her motion picture "The African Queen".
Image: Eliot Elisofon
Image: Eliot Elisofon
"If you are a stranger, you will not readily get fairy legends, even in a western village (of Ireland). You must make friends with the children. The old women are most learned, but will not so readily talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of."
~ William Butler Yeats
~ William Butler Yeats
January 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"If you are a stranger, you will not readily get fairy legends, even in a western village (of Ireland). You must make friends with the children. The old women are most learned, but will not so readily talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of."
~ William Butler Yeats
~ William Butler Yeats
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
~ Lisa Kleypas
💙
(Image: Dee Nickerson)
~ Lisa Kleypas
💙
(Image: Dee Nickerson)
December 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
~ Lisa Kleypas
💙
(Image: Dee Nickerson)
~ Lisa Kleypas
💙
(Image: Dee Nickerson)
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
November 12, 2024 at 1:33 PM
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison