Always In My Heart-Italy

"For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery, back , back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness."

-D. H. Lawrence

I LOVE Ruffles

Some variations on a theme...

Sevillanas Flamenco dresses

Weee-eeee, gotta love em

In sewing and dress-making , a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon, tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment or bedding or other textile as a form of trimming. A ruffle without gathers or pleats may also be made by cutting a curved strip of fabric and applying the inner or shorter edge to the garment.
A deep (wide) ruffle is usually called a flounce.Ruffles appeared at the drawstring necklines of full chemises in the 15th century, evolved into the separately-constructed ruff of the 16th century, and remained a fashionable form of trim off-and-on into modern times. -Wikepedia

Pentimento

"Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes become transparent. When that happens

it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines:

a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented", changed his mind.

Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception,

replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged now and

I wanted to see what was there for me once,

what is there for me now."

-"Pentimento" by Lillian Hellman

Happy Easter

"Twas Easter Sunday

The full-blossomed trees

filled all the air

with fragrance and with joy." ~ Henry Wadsworth

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is soporific!" -Beatrix Potter

Purrrty Good Just the Way You Are

"Be Yourself,
Everyone else is already taken."
-Oscar Wilde

And What Else

"April

the blue titmouse in the poplar.

and what else?

the poplar against the blue sky.

and what else?

water in the small blue leaf.

and what else?

the new petal in the rose.

and what else?

The new rose within my heart.

and what else?

and my heart within your own."

-Juan Ramon Jimenez

*Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (24 December 1881–29 May 1958) was a Andalusian poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.

April Fool's Day

April Fools!