Mary Cassatt Lilacs in a Window 1880

The whole kit and canola....

Women in France voted for the first time (in municipal elections) on April 29th, 1945.

Saul Steinberg

Happy Birthday to the great Willie Nelson!

Edouard Manet Lilacs In A Vase 1882

White Tulips 1920 Charles Rennie McIntosh

Would love to have these three as my next flight seat mates : Three Red Cross rescue dogs: Rex, Balam and Orly Source: Ariane Abitbol

Street Art in Linosa, Italy. Photo via @chairspoetry IG

Soon....

A marvelous photograph taken by the incomparable Gordon Parks: Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte at a party at Sardi's Restaurant in honor of Lorraine Hansberry's Broadway play, A Raisin' In The Sun, NYC, 1959

Charlotte Hardy Eat your Greens

“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it." —Joan Didion

Gustave Baumann A Lilac Year 1949

Happy World Flamingo Day !

A Habs fan from Liverpool

Photo by ©️ Linda Moro

René Lalique

Remembering Gregory Peck on his birthday ⠀ Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck photographed during the filming of Roman Holiday, 1953

One of the great photographs of the 20th Century. Budapest, Hungary. 1956. © Russ Melcher

Remembering the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) winning HARRY BELAFONTE — who left us 3yrs ago today, aged 96.

Joni Mitchell and Jack Nicholson celebrate his 89th birthday on April 23rd. Photograph by Lorraine Nicholson.

Agapanthus

Agnès Varda, Harrison Ford

A golden-winged warbler.....

Bluebell Wood, 2016. Emma Horwarth

Marilyn Monroe hanging out in a camp ground in Banff, Alberta in 1953.

Puddle jumping, Edmonton 2021 Kari Duke

Prettiest wisteria house in London is back in bloom.....

Who would you pick ?

The Wire Art of Martin Senn

The Tulip Stairs, built 1616 Queens House Greenwich London

Sir Winston Churchill Orchids ca 1948

Happy #JackieRobinsonDay ! Here are Jackie and Rachel Robinson visiting the Mayor of Montreal in 1958. Photo by Jean-Paul Gill. Courtesy of Ville de Montreal archives. Montreal was the first city in which he played for the majors.

The Parakeet — one of several polychrome woodblock copies made in ca. 1900 from works by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds

Miles, Dizz and Max.

Edouard Boubat Quai d’Anjou, Paris 1953