Today is National Tea Day
Today celebrates the rich history of tea, popularized in the 17th century by Catherine of Braganza (wife of King Charles II). The date chosen honors Queen Elizabeth II (dob 4/21/1926). Anna Russell, the Duchess of Bedford, introduced the afternoon tea ritual in the 1840s.
Looking at some older art from projects that stalled
Various animals roam the forest quietly at night & are seen in gold/gilt silhouette as the print is embossed on the older book cover. Trees surround them, and a stream flows beside them, as a crescent moon glows above them.
older book beauty for you
"the detective decided..." pen and ink
In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.
Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.
Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.
This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.
...and Chicago didn't even make it on this list... total bullsh*t! Lol.
Very talented!
Asked my girlfriend (talented actress, thinks it's a dog) to give me a dramatic reading of this.
That is my bed too, lads, and there I'll lie.
Cymbeline
#ShakespeareSunday
Watercolour style -TARDIS nestled atop small cloud. She is forever my silver lining.
‘But come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight.’ #ShakespeareSunday #TARDIS #DoctorWho #psychicpainting
The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
Midsummer Night's Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
"Oh God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea, and other times to see
The beachy girdle of the
ocean."
—Henry IV
#ShakespeareSunday
Woman looking at a large portrait of a man
“Whate’er thy thoughts or thy heart’s workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell.”
Sonnet 93
#ShakespeareSunday
A painting of sprite Puck, character of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, by Arthur Rackham (1910)
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
Midsummer Night’s Dream (5.1) #ShakespeareSunday
We thank the gods
Our Rome hath such a soldier.
Coriolanus [I, 9] #ShakespeareSunday
"If this were played upon a stage now, I could
condemn it as an improbable fiction." - Twelfth Night (A3, S4) #ShakespeareSunday
#ShakespeareSunday “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” Sonnet 18
📸Tim Flach
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more - Henry V (A3, S1) #ShakespeareSunday
" angry ghost:" - Richard III (A3, S1) #ShakespeareSunday
A monkey puzzle tree and a small tower in the grounds of Belfast Castle.
“ ... to meet you at the tower and welcome you.” ~ Richard III (A3,S1).
#ShakespeareSunday #BéalFeirste
[📷Me]
Kitten with unrolled toilet roll.
"But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,
Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself."
HenryVI Pt2 3.1 #ShakespeareSunday
Dell paperback cover 1963
From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Sonnet 98
#ShakespeareSunday
1960s #coverart for Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie 1944)
Bronze statue of Shakespeare. He is set into a carved marble alcove. He is reclining on his side and wearing period attire. Carved in the marble: "In memory of William Shakespeare for several years an inhabitant of this parish. b. 1564. O. 1616". Photo taken by me at the Southwark Cathedral in London.
No exorcist harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave!
Cymbeline A4.S2
#ShakespeareSunday
#London #SouthwarkCathedral
You're normal.
"Pacing the Moonlight" Art by Gürbüz Do ban Ekşio lightlu
"Pacing the Moonlight"
Art by Gürbüz Do ban Ekşio lightlu
Goodnight Blue ones
#MenWithCats
Thanks for letting me know. I will definitely check it out.
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say ‘Behold!’
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
AMND 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
I was just scrolling and saw Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in your pic. (I'm a huge River Cottage fan.) I'll have to try finding this show. It looks like something I'd enjoy.
She murders with a kiss.
Venus and Adonis
#ShakespeareSunday
#ThemeFree
#DoctorWho
#LetsKillHitler
