“Still round the corner there may wait. A new road or a secret gate. And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way. And take the hidden paths that run, Towards the Moon or to the Sun.”    ~ J.R.R. Tolkien    Gateway.

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

Naiad. Polaroid photography by Brittney Appleby. Model: Natasha Grace.

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”  ~ Albert Camus    Cathedral.

through the spotting scope #fullmoon

Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms — rarely if ever in simple straight lines. ~ Starhawk.

Book Cover of the Day:

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.” ~ Robert Frost.

Tadoussac Bay, April 2020. Pastel.

I am light and unburdened as these cords disintegrate forever.

Did you know? In the Victorian era, London’s overcrowded graveyards sometimes erupted. Coffins were crammed so tightly into shallow churchyards that the gases of decomposition built up beneath the soil. The ground would swell and burst open to reveal decomposing corpses. #Victorian #history

Visiting the historic Roedde House Museum in Vancouver, BC.

Wells Cathedral, 12. Jahrhundert, England.

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake.

DESERTED FAIRY TALE CASTLES Ireland & Spain No sooner had he approached the woods than all those great trees & brambles & thorns opened on their own accord & allowed him to pass through. Then he began walking towards the castle (Perrault, Sleeping Beauty) #FairyTaleTuesday

Versailles Ceiling. France.

Visiting the historic Roedde House Museum. Vancouver, BC.

Croyden Minster. London, UK.

Versailles Gardens. France.

Dear Dead Days by Charles Addams. First published in 1959.

#AUTUMN BEAUTY I was struck by the unsettlingly dark beauty of the #Bronte family home & churchyard when I visited Haworth. Shrouded in mist among the #autumn leaves it was clear no coward soul could live here. Glorious in its gothic gloom.

Visiting the historic Roedde House Museum. Vancouver, BC.

Goodnight. 🖼️ Still 02, Tanja Jeremić. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.” ~ Horace.

Crypts. Père Lachaise Cemetery. Paris, France.

Animals: Art, Science and Sound exhibit at the British Library. London, UK.

Barking Abbey. London, UK.

“Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.”   ~ Zelda Popkin    Tapestry.

Garlands of skulls and long bones in Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic. The bones were arranged by František Rint in 1870, who had been employed by the family who owned the chapel to do so.

“Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain.”  ~ Sun Tzu    Wild is the Wind.

The haunting with @collibrina.bsky.social and @seraphinaarts.bsky.social . Wearing Moretta inspired masks I made out of paper mache. 🖤

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” ~ Edvard Munch     Blossoms.

hidden in the breeze yesterday kisses dreaming of another fall with you #Photography Bernard Doucette @bdoucette.bsky.social

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”   ~ Aristotle    Sanctuary II.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. ― John Donne #rose #flower #nature #photography

“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.” ~ William Butler Yeats    Light and Shadow.

Walking in Milan 🖤 #Urbangaze #Milan #Milano #Classicmono #Architecture

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” ~ Rumi    Halcyon.

St Wilfrid's, Ribchester Type 517 cine film Kodak Retina 1a #ilfordfp4 #ilfordphoto #kodakretina1a #kodakcamera #frugalfilmproject #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ~ Sylvia Plath    Leo.

“Just we two” Postcard from my collection. Copyright 1907, mailed 1909. This is by C.E. Bullard, my favorite of the Victorian/Edwardian cat photographers. He seemed to genuinely love cats and didn't restrain them or cram them into tiny costumes.

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”  ~ Charles Baudelaire    Dark Days II.

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”   ~ John Keats    Into the Wild III.

Tour Saint-Jacques at night #WeekNforNights #Alphabetchallenge #architecture #Gothic

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”  ~ Anais Nin    Art Deco.

Since reading Lovecraft, I became curious about the expression 'Gibbous Moon' as it sounds sinister like 'Gibbet' However, it simply means that part of the moon is hidden in darkness. Modern art tends to favor full moons & crescents but not the more introverted gibbous phase. (art George Inness)

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”   ~ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.    Wraith. Self Portrait.

🎨Ghosts on a Tree by Franz Sedlacek (1933) 👻

“Sometimes, even to live is an act of courage.” ~ Seneca    Ataraxia.