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“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

~ Robert Frost

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Inside Monastery of Vallbona de les Monges (Ponent, Catalonia). The monastery was founded in the year 1055, and most of what we see nowadays was built between the 12th and 14th centuries.

Phot by gosia_siudzinska on instagram.

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Mary Magdalene in the Cave (details) by Hugues Merle.

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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons by Frederick Accum, 1820.

This book was written by a famous English chemist and was an immediate success when it was first published and was into its fourth edition in only two years… but food adulteration statistics didn’t go down and Accum started to panic that instead of preventing it, he’d taught even more people how to do it, and he started vandalizing his own book in libraries and was forced to leave the country in disgrace.

Source: Christie’s Auction House

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fog is just amazing

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Versailles Gardens. France. 

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Death and the Maiden

— by George Clark Stanton

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Set of three Coiled Snakes, Bronze, possibly Spain or Germany, 1570-1629, detail. © The Wallace Collection

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“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” ~ Aristotle

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©Philomena Famulok

Dear sea, dear wind. If I were a seagull...

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Marc Fishman - La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1997, earlier version)

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The Vision of Saint Hubert. Franz von Stuck, 1890

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Vassar College girls practicing Greek dance c. 1923

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Join me on Flashes for Bluesky.

Crypts. Père Lachaise Cemetery. Paris, France.

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Gustave Doré

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Lotus attachment element, 1070BC-664BC, Egypt.