The left hand picture is the Gabriel Oak.

The beautifully scented Gabriel Oak and the prolific Scarborough Fair, both from
David Austin and doing well this summer 🌱

A lovely Spring day out in North Yorkshire: blossom at Helmsley Walled
Garden and pick- your - own tulips from The Flower Belt. 🌱

Such fresh and delicate petals on this beautiful snowflake plant: a lovely sign of Spring 🌱

I’m not great on plant names, so was pleased to see the label 😀

The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms.
Henry VIII Act 3 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday #Spring 🌱

I saw yesterday that these tulips were called Corona.

Peach blossom, tulips and other signs of #Spring at Beningbrough @nationaltrust.bsky.social 🌱

I bought mine recently when it was already in flower, so I didn’t have to do anything to get this display! I am sure that you will have lovely flowers shortly.

Hellebore Double Ellen brightening up a grey day 🌱 #spring

Beautiful.

The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou
and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it
would be argument for a week, laughter for a month
and a good jest for ever.
Henry IV Part I Act 2 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday #hollowcrownfans

Give me a calendar.
Who saw the sun to-day?
Richard III Act 5 Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday @yorkminster.bsky.social

Look in the calendar, and bring me word.
Julius Caesar Act 2 Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday

Fragrant viburnum - such an uplifting scent at this time of year 🌱 #fridayflowers

Happy new year to you as well!

Yes, it’s The Magpie, by Monet (1868-9)

… and birds sit brooding in the snow.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Act 5 Scene 2
#ShakespeareSunday
Monet: The Magpie

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday
St Mary’s Abbey #York

A goodly house: the feast smells well.
Coriolanus A4 Scene 5
#ShakespeareSunday #Christmas

To-morrow is the joyful day.
As You Like It Act 5 Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday #Christmas

Image: Viggo Johansen: Merry Christmas (1891)

My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.
Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday #NotreDameCathedral

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire with good old folks and let them tell thee tales.
Richard II Act 5 Scene I
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Give not a windy night a rainy morrow.
Sonnet 90
#ShakespeareSunday #StormDarragh

Blue circles stream'd; like rainbows in the sky: these water-galls in her dim element foretell new storms to those already spent.
#ShakespeareSunday
Rape of Lucrece

A woodcut print showing a traditional Japanese dwelling with a coating of snow on the thatched roof, and all the shutters tightly closed. A small black and white cat ambles across the snow free covered porch. A snow covered path winds from the dwelling across the middle of the image to the right, and the grass bordering it shows every blade coated in frost. In the foreground, part of the trunk of an apple tree twists off the side of the image to the left; the branches are snow covered and the unpicked red fruit, the only saturated color in the image, are similarly crowned with snow.

Today's image for ArtAdventCalendar!

Ohtsu Kazuyuki, 'Sudden Snow'

a snowman is holding a torch in his mouth . ALT: a snowman is holding a torch in his mouth .

Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
Midsummer Night's Dream
#ShakespeareSunday

And birds sit brooding in the snow …
Love’s Labour’s Lost Act 5 Scene 2

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Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,
The barks of trees thou browsed'st.
Antony and Cleopatra Act 1 Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday

I just leave this here.....