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Giuseppe Mentessi (Italian, 1857-1931)

Roma. Arco di Tito

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Rome

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Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809 - 1866) - The Pantheon By Moonlight

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✨orchids✨

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After a few years of waiting, finally got these to flower. I think the mistake I made was not enough light. If it's ok for ferns,it's probably to dark for these. I think a full sun in winter and dappled light or shade cloth in summer is a reasonable choice.

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vampire orchid 🦇

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A bronze pear-shaped vase Korea, 13th century

Height 12 in., 31 cm.

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Charles Avison, Concerto grosso n. 5, done from the Book of Lessons for the Harpsicord composed by Sig. Domenico Scarlatti. Ensemble L'Aura Soave - Cremona Nicholas Robinson & Ulrike Fisher, violini Diego Cantalupi & Pietro Prosser, chitarre Davide Pozzi, clavicembalo

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Why, by night, do scents have in their waves something that speaks, has meaning, has a language? No, flowers do not sleep at night. - Gabriele d'Annuncio, Pleasure (trans. Lara Gochin Raffaelli)

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Plant of the Day

Wednesday 28 December 2022

A small, spreading, evergreen tree Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree, Dalmatian strawberry, Killarney strawberry tree) thrives in a sunny, sheltered location. The urn-shaped, white flowers often appear as the strawberry-like fruits, from the previous years flowers, ripen. The multiple trunks have flaking red-brown bark.

Jill Raggett

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Madrone, Madrona, or Arbutus?

The common name of the tree Arbutus menziesii depends on where you are or where you are from.

North American members of the genus are called Madrones, from the Spanish name madroño (strawberry tree) although this terminology is not used in Canada. The European species are also called Strawberry Trees from the superficial resemblance of the fruit to a strawbrry; some species are sometimes referred to simply as the “Arbutus”.

In the United States, the name “Madrone” is used south of the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon/northern California and the name “Madrona” is used north of the Siskiyou Mountains according to the “Sunset Western Garden Book”. In British Columbia, the trees are simply known by the name “Arbutus.”

All refer to the same tree, Arbutus menziesii, native to the Pacific Northwest and Northern California regions. It is Canada’s only native broadleaved evergreen tree. Some species in the genera Epigaea, Arctostaphylos and Gaultheria were formerly classified in Arbutus. As a result of its past classification, Epigaea repens (Mayflower) has an alternative common name of “trailing arbutus”.”

(The original source of this on Wikipedia seems to have vanished so I’m cross-posting from an article from Washington State University.)

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13.05-23

Misc.

- Vivera Rossi

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The slow decay of power may be imperceptible to the possessor - that is the terrible thing about it. The artist who loses his genius little by little is unaware of his progressive feebleness, for as he loses his power of production he also loses his critical faculty, his judgment. He no longer perceives the defects of his work - does not know that it is mediocre or bad. That is the horror of it! The artist who has fallen from his original high estate is no more conscious of his failings than the lunatic is aware of his mental aberration.

The Child of Pleasure, Gabriele D'Annunzio

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The inner cover of the book "La nave" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Fratelli Treves Editori, Milano, 1908

Zagreb, 25 May 2023

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“…[her] lips which, in silence, had seemed to him like the mouth of the Medusa of Leonardo, that human flower of the soul rendered divine by the fire of passion and the anguish of death.”

— Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Child of Pleasure (trans. Georgina Harding)

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“…her eyes remained sad and as if lost in a far away dream.”

— Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Child of Pleasure (trans. Georgina Harding)

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Gabriele D'Annunzio, tr. by Ned Condini, from "Rain in the Pine Wood,"