Playing Cards from Ukraine -- Favorite is King of Clubs!

End of Summer

An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.

I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones
Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.

Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was forever over.

Already the iron door of the North
Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows. 

~~Stanley Kunitz

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant (recoils from human touch)

 Painter Philip Reinagle
Engraver Joseph Constantine Stadle
1799

The late John Ward CBE, RP, NEAC, Hon. PS (1917 - 2007)

Last work - Artist fading into last spring

The Fortune Teller, by Mikhail Vrubel

A Cartomancer

I waded through mud and melancholy toward the messiah. ~~Arthur Koestler

I've got my eye on you....

Beautiful home of Vettiorum buried August 24, A.D. 79, Pompeii, Italy

Vilhelm Hammershøi -- Empty Rooms at Peace

2007 August 11

Landscape of the Summer Solstice by Paul Nash (11 May, 1889 – 11 July, 1946)

Wiosna Wyczolkowski

Portrait of a young man holding a dog and cat

modigliani's diego rivera

Birds of a Feather

Portrait of Charles Henri Ford 

in Poppy Field 

by Pavel Tchelitchew

August

August Flowers