Well, I don't know how and I don't know why

Dandelions and daisies commish

Marguerite Gérard - Artist Painting a Portrait of a Musician (detail)

Bernard Frize (French, b. 1949) - Rogue, Acylic and resin on canvas, 160.0 x 135.0 cm (2015)

A photographer’s portrait in a mirror, a hundred years ago, Japan, ca. 1920. Text and image via Old Japanese Photos on Facebook

Canada to Texas, Terry Evans

La Porcelaine tendre de Sèvres - Édouard Garnier - 1889 - via Gallica (edited) 

The lyric is “wrap yourself in petals for armor” because I kept feeling like the way for me to protect myself best is to be vulnerable and be okay with having a lot of pain at certain times and also feeling a lot of joy at certain times. As long as I’m staying soft to those things and I’m open to letting those things in and out of me. Then I can actually survive the world a lot easier than if I stay hard and stay with my fists up all the time.“

2019

Peter Ash Lee

reading by the seaside 

Arthur Loureiro (1853 - 1932)

Ichiro Tsuruta 1982 Japan.

“For 35 years, husband and wife team Véronique and Jean-François have been harvesting, drying and selling over fifty varieties of flower on their 7000m² farm in the countryside of Auvergne.”

— Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via goodreadss)

Manting by Paula Codoner

Joseph W. Spoor, Electro Astronomical Atlas, 1874