Happy weekend! ❄️💙

Happy 2025, everyone! May this year be better than the last one! @timwestland.bsky.social @thatericalper.bsky.social @thefincheranalyst.bsky.social @marzenaanna.bsky.social @atrupar.com @annajklassen.bsky.social @analydiamonaco.bsky.social

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo - Romeo and Juliet, A1 S5 #ShakespeareSunday #OliviaHussey

I thought I knew winter, but from inside this tower I’ve learned something new- the winter wind has its own voice. . . The winter wind screeches around the tower, singing the high harmony, its voice sharp with ice. Shannon Hale Book of a Thousand Days #BookWormSat

These trees shall be my books. As You Like It #ShakespeareSunday

Natalie Wood, #DOTD in 1981 💖🕊

This week has been rough, but more than that, this whole year has been rough starting on January 1st. I hate leap years and this was no exception. I'm just glad it's almost over!🤦‍♀️ Until then, books are my therapy.📚 Happy Friday!🙋‍♀️☕️ #GoodMorningBlueSky #BookSky #Translators #Bookworm #WeekendVibes

TGIF!🙌🥳 Welcome back, weekend! I've missed you!🙋‍♀️ #WeekendVibes #Friyay #GoodMorningBluesky

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute. Claude Monet #botd 🖌️Claude Monet Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. Sonnet 71 #ShakespeareSunday

January is the month for dreaming. Jean Hersey Happy #January ☀️❄️☀️❄️ 🖌️ Alfons Mucha

Al DiMeola, Jean Luc Ponty & Stanley Clarke - Indigo (Live At Montreux 1994) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrP... #nowplaying #music 🎧 #ψ

And Still Standing, after all this time 😀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwV... open.spotify.com/track/1jDJFe... 🎧 #ψ

Elton John – Someone Saved My Life Tonight You almost had your hooks in me, didn't you, dear? You nearly had me roped and tied [...] You're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly Fly away, high away, bye-bye (Ooh) www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2v... open.spotify.com/track/0bLOio... 🎧 #ψ

Good Morning! 👋🤗❤️☕

Still Life with Carafe, Sugar Bowl, Bottle, Pommegranates and Watermelon, 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13539/

George Jones, Untitled, https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1077971

Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best. William Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen Happy #RoseWednesday 🌹

I wish you all the joy that you can wish. The Merchant of Venice A3, S2 #ShakespeareSunday

The Art of Painting also known as The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio. 🖌️Johannes Vermeer  #art

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. Agatha Christie, The Clocks #agathachristie

Lire est sexy 📖

Good Morning 😊 I see a book, I see a coffee, and I see a good day ahead. ☕️📚💙🫶 #dailyreadingexcuses

I have always enjoyed stories about haunted dolls and Grady Hendrix does not disappoint. This terrifying, creepy, funny, and heartwarming read had me glued from beginning to end. #GradyHendrix #HowToSellAHauntedHouse #Horror #BookPhotography

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people. Henry VIII, A1, S4 #ShakespeareSunday

The fireplace in Provence is still used - to cook on, to sit around, to warm the toes, and to please the eye - and fires are laid in the early morning and fed throughout the day with scrub oak from the Luberon or beech from the foothills of Mont Ventoux. Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence #BookWormSat

-last words about painting, age 78... I think I'm beginning to learn something about it. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) Auguste Renoir painting outdoors in Cagnes-sur-Mer, ca. 1913

Woman In An Interior 🖌️Pruett Carter (9 February 1891 – 1 December 1955) #SundayYellow

When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. Richard III A2S3 #ShakespeareSunday

Es ist wirklich erstaunlich, was einem alles so einfällt, wenn man am Schreibtisch sitzt und keine Einfälle hat.“ Guten Morgen mit Joseph Conrad 3. Dezember 1857 -3. August 1924

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times. Henry IV, Part 2 A3, S1 #ShakespeareSunday

Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. RJ 2.6 #ShakespeareSunday

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. M 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old” (Sonnet 104) #TobyStephens clearly has a painting hidden in his attic! 🫢 #ShakespeareSunday

»Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?« (Henry IV Part 2) #ShakespeareSunday #MaggieSmith

They say miracles are past. All'sWellThat EndsWell, S2, S3 #ShakespeareSunday

Libera, amore mio! (1975) Directed by Mauro Bolognini Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cirino, Adolfo Celi, Philippe Leroy, Luigi Diberti, Tullio Altamura, Rosalba Neri Music by Ennio Morricone Cinematography by Franco Di Giacomo Costume Design by Piero Tosi Production Design by Guido Josia

In Japanese folklore kitsunebi is a yokai phenomenon occurring at night when magical foxes breathe out coloured balls of fire which float in the air and are used as lanterns to light their way. Seeing this fox fire is often a sign that a fox wedding or demon parade are occurring. 🎨Utagawa Hiroshige

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting ca. 1663–65. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 🖌️Pieter de Hooch ( Rotterdam 1629–1684 Amsterdam) #art

[Stage direction] Ferdinand and Miranda revealed playing Chess Here Prospero discovers Ferdinand and Miranda, playing at Chess. The Tempest #ShakespeareSunday Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess painting by Lucy Madox Brown, 1871

#TsuchiyaKoitsu (1870-1945) Shinagawa Coast c. early 1930s #japanese #woodblock #ukiyo-e #Shin-hangamovement

I can only draw what I see. Claude Monet #botd Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet from 1875. It depicts his wife Camille and their son Jean in the period from 1871 to 1877 while they were living in Argenteuil. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joseph Wright of Derby

Portrait of his daughter, 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16587

...One Would Say That She Never Saw Me... (...On dirait qu'elle ne m'a jamais vue...) (plate, page 105) from Pasiphaé: Chant de Minos (Les Crétois), 1943–44, published 1944 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1141652

'I needed something not too serious to read that would take me away from my worries and yet with a well written plot with solid characters. Thank you for providing this perfect answer to a stressed mind.’ mybook.to/AnOfficersVow #kindleunlimited #booksworthreading #BookSky 💙📚

Una caricia es un sendero que nos lleva al mar. 📸 De mi mar

Here is a photo taken at the start of last year : IC410 The Tadpoles Nebula. This 100 lightyear wide region of ionised gas is some 12000 light-years away from earth. The “Tadpoles” that you can see are themselves ten light-years long and are considered by NASA to be sites of ongoing star formation.🔭