What a year ~ thank you all, for your support and friendship. It means the world.
It’s that time of year, when we think about the ones no longer with us, and hug those still by our side a little tighter.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.
✨🎄✨🎶

Sometimes, the words left unsaid, are the ones that tell the story.

Many have tried to kill this softness within me. Some have even come close, but it always survives. Then I remember: softness, kindness, empathy, compassion... these things are strengths, not weaknesses.

When you wake up in a painting

Autumn has come and gone, and the leaves that were once afire with color, have dried and fallen to the ground. The wind has scattered us far and wide ~ gone are the days when we clung together, full of life, full of color. Winter has come to claim us, and bury our memories in the dirt.
©️ShePlaysLoud

Follow your heart.

Music is just a different kind of light.

Crimea, Ukraine

This morning’s endeavour in the Peak District. Two minutes of undeniably glorious light. Autumn getting off to a decent start and I’m trying to get back into the swing of sunrise.

Pinzolo (Trento)
Il Lago di Nambino a Madonna di Campiglio

Haven’t painted in a while, so just thought I would get a brush on paper. No reference, just imagination. 🙏🏻
#watercolor #watercolorpainting

a photo taken at a lake although not much of the lake is shown in it. there are grasses, bushes and trees all around small bits of water.

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members"

-Pearl S. Buck

It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. - Georgia O'Keeffe burnt orange poppy detail with black background

beauty is not caused. it is. - emily dickinson ivory and shades of purple dahlia against a black background

Image art from Pinterest

‘Character is created in kindness, comrades, and calmness is cultivated in radically inclusive, other-centered love.'

i watch them with reverence,
the way they float and flicker,
pearl white specks in a sea of black
and i am jealous of the way
they light the night
i have always been more shadow
than shooting star
#poetry

A meadow of scars that healed and bloomed.

Don’t let the bad things make you forget all the good things.

Mornin’

Das Bild zeigt eine Nahaufnahme von einem flauschigen, dunklen Hummel, die knapp über einer prächtigen lila Blüte schwebt. Die Blüte besteht aus mehreren dicht angeordneten, samtigen Blütenblättern und ragt wie eine kleine Säule nach oben. Die Hummel ist in den oberen linken Bildbereich geflogen, heftig im Flug, mit deutlich sichtbaren Flügeln und Beinen. Der Hintergrund ist verschwommen, in einem hellgrünen Farbton, sodass das kräftige Lila der Blüte und das braune Fell der Hummel besonders leuchten.

✨💜 GN8 💚✨

Birch Moon
Robert Macaulay Stevenson
oil on canvas

conifer trees in silhouette against a blue sky with dark gray and white clouds.

"once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up"

-Leonardo da Vinci

🌷

…an attempt at capturing a favorite location… 🙏🏻
#watercolor #watercolorpainting

A filter-free close up of a blush pink rose as the morning light softly illuminates her delicate petals. The rose sits on my nightstand, and yes, she’s a beauty.

Kissed by the light of the morning sun~~~

📸 is mine. So is the 🌹.

#Bloomscrolling #flowers