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woolgathering by patti smith

Li Qingzhao, from a poem titled "Late Spring," featured in The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao

Mary Magdalene in a Grotto (Marie Madeleine dans la grotte), (1876) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (French, 1836 – 1911), oil on canvas, 71.5 cm (28.1 in) x 113.5 cm (44.6 in), Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot the 6 creatures hidden in the picture? From Treasure magazine, 1965

Internet Archive

Irene E. Jerome, Common Harebell, Wildflowers--Colorado,(1893-1900).

Michael Whelan - The Abyss

'Bedtime'. Nicole Parker. 2021.

Gabriel Schachinger (1850–1912), The Forget-me-not (Das Vergissmeinnicht), 1886

—Clarice Lispector, The Departure of the Train.

Stitching the Standard, (Detail), (1911), by Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852 – 1922), oil on canvas, 98 cm (38.5 in) x 44 cm (17.3 in), Private Collection

A Woodland Idyll (Une idylle dans les bois or simply Idylle) (before 1878) by Eugène Faure (French, 1822 – 1879), signed 'Eug Faure' (lower right), oil on canvas, 86 x 48 5/8 in. (218.5 x 123.5 cm.), Private Collection

The Kiss of the oceans - postcard from 1923

Nun in red heels - Readers Digest magazinec - (1967)

Wassernixen (Mermaids) (1920) by Josef Wawra (Austrian, 1893 – 1935), oil on canvas, Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Ophélie (Ophelia) (1887) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823 – 1906), signed and dated 'A Stevens./ 87.' (lower left), oil on canvas, 79 x 47½ in. (200.6 x 120.6 cm.), Private Collection