Couldn't agree more!

No bigger joy but to sit with cats in the garden! :-)

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Love how peaceful this painting is. :-)

I'm so sorry to hear that. Hope you'll feel better soon and that you'll be allowed to go home tomorrow.

Yes, oil. Love this one, too.

Should definitely have helped keeping the kids indoors!

You're very welcome. :-)

Aw, thank you so much! Hope you will enjoy the tales! :-)

Brimstone butterfly on a dandelion.

New friend!

Painting of a tabby kitten washing itself amongst blue and white flowers.

Kitten in the Sun, Thure Wallner (1888-1965).

Art by Francis Mosley to accompany a tale by M. R. James. Two figures watch a carriage ride by. Leafless trees, dark, and full moon.

The bloedkoets (blood carriage) was said to be a ghostly carriage from Flemish folklore that was often seen in the streets of Aalst. According to the tales, masked men walked beside it and abducted children. The blood that the carriage collected was sent to Paris.

#PhantomsFriday

Book cover depicting folkloric creatures from Flemish folklore. Book title: Flemish Folktales Retold.

Just a reminder that this exists. :-)

Painting of a woman on a bed clutching a rosary.

It's #PhantomsFriday, so it's time for yet another haunted painting!

This is Mi Novia (also known as Portrait of a Lady), by Juan Luna. According to legend, it is of the artist's wife, Paz Pardo de Tavera, who Juan Luna murdered 🫨

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“For, though they claim to be exempt
From pride, they treat a Phantom
As something quite beneath contempt—
Just as no Turkey ever dreamt
Of noticing a Bantam.”

(Lewis Carroll “Rhyme? and Reason?”)

🎨  Arthur B. Frost

#Phantomsfriday

A squire's daughter would meet her lover at Furness Abbey. One day he took a journey out to sea and never returned. The girl returned every day until her death and her ghost the White Lady, still walks more: 'Folklore of the Lake District' #phantomsfriday #bookchatweekly art : Arthur Rackham

A squire's daughter would meet her lover at Furness Abbey. One day he took a journey out to sea and never returned. The girl returned every day until her death and her ghost the White Lady, still walks

more: 'Folklore of the Lake District'

#phantomsfriday #booksky
art : Arthur Rackham

Painting of graveyard in bright sunshine.

‘When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Tho’ you should lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care. 1/2 I Shall Not Care ~ Sara Teasdale

‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world: it's really the weight of a hemisphere, not a light burden.’ ~ Christina Rossetti Illustration of wombat at top.

‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world…’ ~ Rossetti

For National Pet Day, #BookWormSat will walk the dogs and curl up with the cats of literature. And the horses, mice, rabbits, rats, birds, wombats…

Everyone, god and his mother might feel slightly hungover after an abundance of festivities and observances and since olden times, there are Silent Days strewn in... like today.

Days you might meet a Silent One in the woods... like the one in our 41st #darkspringtide tale below.

🎨  Martin Ball

Thank you, and have a safe journey home.

You're very welcome.

Glad that you saw this post. :-)

You're very welcome. He was a fantastic artist.

Thank you. Remembering those times every day.

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Thank you.

Meadow kitty loves you, too!

Ha! I think my cats would rather like this idea, too.

I'm sad that I don't live in Paris now. :-)

Glad you both enjoy it! :-)