catholic | audhd | art history graduateGenerations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things - Gerard Manley Hopkins . . . In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere. - St Bonaventure
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Woman cradling her cat in the sun, 1939. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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Woman Reading. Portrait of Sofia Kramskaya
Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy, 1866
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This is the view from Charlotte Brontë’s bedroom (now the Brontë Parsonage Museum), Haworth, Yorkshire. Charlotte was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature.
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I love hotel breakfasts. You have shambling zombies who've managed to scrape together half a braincell, the morning people who've already done their yoga, and the most elegantly put together women you've ever seen, all staring with the same vague confusion at the unholy selection of food on offer.
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Bonanat Zaortiga - Virgin of Mercy (c. 1430). Detail.
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the very rare phenomenon of a volcano producing vapor rings/volcanic vortex rings. Mount Etna today (April 5, 2024) by Boris Behncke
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Edwin Romanzo Elmer - An Imaginary Scene (1892)
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'The Silent Voice' by Gerald Moira, c. 1893.
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I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky
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Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
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Two Romanians from Salva, Bistrița-Năsăud, Transylvania
Photographed by Romulus Vuia (1887–1963), ca. 1931
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei (via transylvania.heritage)
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When the night falls by Emile René Ménard (French painter, 1862-1930)
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