Le Petit Poulailler

May 26

Lady Lucy’s Walk at Wentworth Castle, South Yorkshire, England.

This is actually a “stately home” with glorious gardens and the poignantly named ‘Lady Lucy’s Walk’ - a closely spaced, cathedral like avenue of Lime Trees planted around 1920 in honour of Thomas Wentworth’s daughter Lucy, who fell in love with the estate gardener and (you know this isn’t going to end well) died of a broken heart after they were forbidden to marry.

They say she still wanders the gardens, weaving wistfully in forlorn fashion as she weeps amongst the willows and pines amidst the Limes for her lost love.

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ca 1905 Coney Island, New York, USA “Picnicing on the beach — a hasty lunch.” 8.5”x6.5” dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co via

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1907 Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes (Australian Pre-Raphaelite, 1855-1927) ~ Madonna and Child

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“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” — Frances Ward Weller (Contemporary American children’s book author)

1950 William Holden, Nancy Olson ~ Sunset Boulevard

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poboh: 1923 John Singer Sargent (American portrait, 1856-1925) ~ Portrait of the Hon. Claire Stuart Wortley [study]

“It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and it’s as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard your name for the first time.” — 1922 Katherine Mansfield (New Zealander Modernist writer, 1888-1923) ~ At the Bay via katherine-mansfield

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May 25

oldpainting: 1835 John James Audubon [Jean-Jacques Audubon] (French/American, 1785-1851) ~ Iceland or Jer Falcon

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