Still Life of Tulips and Carnations in a Vase
Still Life of Tulips and Carnations in a Vase
Hubert Bellis (1831-1902)
Oil on canvas
22 x 18-1/4 inches
Selecting a Reader
Video: Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser, 0:58.
Summertime
Video: Summertime, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, with some truly fabulous photographs, 4:59.
Sonnet 98
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 every thing:
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell:
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose,
They were but sweet, but figures of delight:
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.
Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.
–William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Alchemist
The Alchemist
Cornelis Bega (1631-1664)
Oil on panel, 1663
14-1/8 x 12-1/2 inches
This painting reminds me of this:
And this:
. . . though I can’t make gold. I’m pretty good at making a mess, though!
Memories
Memories
Charles Baugniet (1814-1886)
Oil on Panel
28-1/2 by 23-1/2 inches
A Picture of Us
Jefferson and I near Wallace Dam at the end of March. (Thanks, Elizabeth!)
