Picked some flowers today..

Very happy today with the Arte y Pico award.........
Miss Peach so nice of you to give this to me,its an honour!
And you know what's so very wonderfull,when you receive this award you can pass in on to 5 other kindred spirits,for there talent and creative energie.
This can be in Art,writing,etc
So i picked a big bouquet of flowers (with a little help from Mr.Renoir)to go with the ARTE Y PICO....and i would like to give it to..

The one and only..Everly Pleasent,A young and VERY talented writer.CLICKETY-CLACK.
JO,for being Jo.. OLD FLOWERS FOR ME.
Rosie,with here very interesting blogs about family and history, CORNERS OF MY MIND
Milly,Art with a capital A.It realy touched me, DRAWINGS FROM NATURE.
And last but not least, Gillian,for her lovely REFLECTIONS IN THE AFTERNOON..

They all can be found at my..Kindred spirit list ....

.........Everly,Millie,Gillian,Jo,Rosie....its all yours................

One Day..

"One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”"

Row row row your boat...

Gently down the stream
merrily merrily merrily merrily
life is but a dream....

Drwawing-www.victorianweb.org-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row,_Row,_Row_Your_Boat

Bowing...

"By The Sea


I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me.

And frigates in the upper floor
Extended hempen hands,
Presuming me to be a mouse
Aground, upon the sands.

But no man moved me till the tide
Went past my simple shoe,
And past my apron and my belt,
And past my bodice too,

And made as he would eat me up
As wholly as a dew
Upon a dandelion's sleeve -
And then I started too.

And he - he followed close behind;
I felt his silver heel
Upon my ankle, - then my shoes
Would overflow with pearl.

Until we met the solid town,
No man he seemed to know;
And bowing with a mighty look
At me, the sea withdrew."

Emily Dickinson

The Wave...Gustave Corbet(1819-1879)

Seaside

Really wanted to share this one with you..Beautiful ecards at the liverpool museum.................

Liverpool museums - The Captive Butterfly, Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864 - 1933)

Protected...

"The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off--and they are nearly always doing it.

"From..The secret Garden...

Painting..The woodmans child..Little girl protected by a Robin and a squirrel...from Arthur Hughes.

Summer Sky

"To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems fly

~Emily Dickinson"

(painting..Birdsong... Karoly Ferenczy)

Knowledge

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)"

The Promise

I promised the fairies and..I forgot.I forgot to tell you about the Midsummer Fairies..on midsummer day.So sorry,because they are VERY special,they shine...like the sun.They are little rays of sunlight,and when they are near..you start to feel light and happy,as on a warm, easy living, summerday.They promised me ,(and they never forget a promise) to visit you and me everyday if possible! So ,my dear reader and friend,cherish every ray of sunshine because a fairy lives in it.......

(painting by John George Naish)

from Russia.... with love

The National Library of Russia -- Page 1: "The National Library of Russia in Saint-Petersburg, founded in 1795, is one of the largest libraries not only in Russia but also in the world. Its Russian stocks comprise the world's most complete book collection in the Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian languages."

Float

Fairies absolutely ADORE Dragonflies so please do not tell about this recipe....

Liverpool museums - Dragonfly stew recipe at World Museum Liverpool: "Ingredients
6 shallots, sliced
1 tablespoon coconut oil
2 cloves garlic, sliced
75g ginger root
1 fresh chilli pepper, diced
330g dragonflies, wings removed
½ litre coconut milk
Preparation
Brown the shallots in the oil and add the garlic and ginger. Mix in the chilli and dragonflies then stir-fry for about 10 minutes. Once the dragonflies are browned add the coconut milk and simmer for 5 minutes.".....Do Not Try this athome!

La Libellule...The Dragonfly,by Gustave Moreau,was one of the sources of inspiration for the caracter of Tinkerbell.

Letter

"THIS is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,—
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!"

.........................................Emily.....................Painting..Arthur Hopkins.

A Midsummer Night's Concert

And of course there is a Midsummer Concert on The Hill Top.I believe they are playing Debussy,wonderful music for a enchanting night in the forest!(pump up the volume)

A Midsummer Night's Dream Read al about Shakespeare and The Dream(drawing Arthur Rackham)

Titania

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:

There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,

Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;

And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,

Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in"

From a Midsummer nights dream....this comming weekend, starting tonight,there are a lot of midsummernight party's.Lets make it a midsummer night weekend ........................................................................................................

Transparant

A gathering of Elfs,Fairies,frogs,and butterflies ,its the Mushroom playground in the Hilltop Forest on a misty morning....

The eyes of Emily

The author of Wuthering Heights: "Emily Brontë had by this time acquired a lithesome, graceful figure. She was the tallest person in the house, except her father. Her hair, which was naturally as beautiful as Charlotte's, was in the same unbecoming tight curl and frizz, and there was the same want of complexion. She had very beautiful eyes – kind, kindling, liquid eyes; but she did not often look at you; she was too reserved. Their colour might be said to be dark grey, at other times dark blue, they varied so. She talked very little. She and Anne were like twins – inseparable companions, and in the very closest sympathy, which never had any interruption.

Charlotte famously said of her sister:
Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone."

(Picture-Emily B_a painting by Charlotte B,first published in the july 1894 issue of The woman at home._)

Pleasant

A Piece of my life: "Some people (if not all) must step out of their luxurious or comfortable lives and experience the life of another to truly understand their original lives or fulfill their purpose"

No..Its not jane,not Emily,not Charlotte....its Everly!

The pages are still blank,but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there,written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible......Vladimir Nabokov.

Painting- Henriette Browne-

Butterfly-fun

Having fun with butterflies today......
www.allposters.com

The Bear and The Bees

The Bear and The Bees: "A bear came across a log where a swarm of bees had nested to make their honey. As he snooped around, a single little bee flew out of the log to protect the swarm. Knowing that the bear would eat all the honey, the little bee stung him sharply on the nose and flew back into the log.
This flew the bear into an angry rage. He swatted at the log with his big claws, determined to destroy the nest of bees inside.This only alerted the bees and quick as a wink, the entire swarm of bees flew out of the log and began to sting the bear from head to heel. The bear saved himself by running to and diving into the nearest pond.



It is better to bear a single injury in silence than to bring about a thousand by reacting in anger."

IMAGINOPOLIS

Tony DiTerlizzi's IMAGINOPOLIS Have fun.............

you can fly...

Don't look down for a bit.....

CHEERS..

ONEHUNDRED POSTS....i decided to cellebrate with wine and Mozart..CHEERS..to onehundred more to come...... painting by Philippe Mercier

The Wind..

The Wind’s Tale » Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac: "The Wind’s Tale

When the wind sweeps across a field of grass it makes little ripples in it like a lake; in a field of corn it makes great waves like the sea itself: this is the wind’s frolic. Then listen to the stories it tells; it sings them aloud, one kind of song among the trees of the forest, and a very different one when it is pent up within walls with all their cracks and crannies. Do you see how the wind chases the white fleecy clouds as if they were a flock of sheep? Do you hear the wind down there, howling in the open doorway like a watchman winding his horn? Then, too, how he whistles in the chimneys, making the fire crackle and sparkle. How cosy it is to sit in the warm glow of the fire listening to the tales it has to tell! Let the wind tell its own story! It can tell you more adventures than all of us put together"

I love to feel the wind ....its makes me feel free..

Hats

Jane Austen Society UK : Georgian Period Costumes


Hats and bonnets feature in both Jane Austen's letters and novels.

Steventon 27-28 October 1798: '...I bought some Japan Ink likewise, & next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which You know my principal hopes of happiness depend.'

Bath 2 June 1799: '- Eliz: has given me a hat, & it is not only a pretty hat, but a pretty stile of hat too - It is something like Eliza's - only instead of being all straw, half of it is narrow purple ribbon"

Trouble

"Friendly..i don't know...it looks like trouble

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells."

Dew dance

Always a reason to dance and giggle.......elfs giggle a lot you know..in fact ,sometimes they can really drop dead gorgeous and giggling!

Laughing brook

Anne of the Green Gables: Chapter IV -- Morning at Green Gables: "Oh, I don't mean just the tree; of course it's lovely--yes, it's radiantly lovely--it blooms as if it meant it--but I meant everything, the garden and the orchard and the brook and the woods, the whole big dear world. Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? And I can hear the brook laughing . Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They're always laughing"

Painting by "Walter Field"

Wow..

"Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.)"How much(books)can a person take...?I think i would go into a state of panic...

Sweet..

A very still and peaceful morning in the Hilltop Forest.I decided to have a little walk true the Daisy meadow and look what i found..........so sweet.

Yes ...i do

Do you remember..and they lived happily ever after

The fairytale continuous....

Don't go away ...the fairytale continuous!

The Fairy Tale Prints by Sir Walter Firle at AllPosters.com

sleep...

Planes trains and automobiles..so happy to be back....First things first...sleep!! In my own bed.

There's no place like home.