Tell it to the trees

Trees are everywhere, loved and overlooked, they are wonderful entities!

"The forgotten Treehouse bars of bygone summers in Paris"

here is a wonderful article about this wonderful old custom. It is easy to look back on a past you never lived in wistfully, but the pictures are so magical!

And of course Yggdrasil, the great tree that links the nine worlds in Norse mythology, is beautifully depicted in immense tomes of other worlds. The accepted meaning of the word 'Yggdrasil' is 'Odin's horse'.

The English language derived many of its words from Norse ones. Etymology is brilliant if you are bi-lingual, sometime you can form a connection where words originated, and where current loan words are today. (A non-terrifying form of globalisation, if you will!)

Here is a beautiful old language tree:

Wonderful giants, protectors of supernatural realms and our air-quality, trees have quite a responsibility! But do it with such graceful ease....

All pictures courtesy of Pinterest.

 Genuinely I type in "tree" or "kickass shoes" and something always comes up

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Just thinking/ essay procrastination

I was so relieved when I found a word for it as the concept of Sonder is one I get caught up in quite often

I always wonder how many other people are staring at the moon at the exact same time as me, and what they are going through. I am comforted by the thought that our moon was the same one Joan of Arc fought under, the same moon Oscar Wilde wrote under, the same moon that people on other sides of the world who have never seen each other consult for company or comfort.

Has anyone else experienced a level of non-caring that others have mistaken for brazen confidence? It sounds so strange when put in a sentence like that! Perhaps my homework is depressing me!

Here are some words I hope are of comfort to you

Pics are from Tumblr and Pinterest

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Art from everywhere

Rovina Cai

Gustav Klimt pre-painting run through

Kevin Sloan

Unknown

Anton Vill, above and below

A Fenrir: not sure who this picture is by

Rune Christensen

Man Ray

William Mortenson

Travis Bedel

Matisse

All from Juxtapoz magazine, Berlin artparasites, Dazed and Confused and Pinterest

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10.17

One of my favourite blogs ever to exist, 10.17 captures the beauty in films, books and moments so well. The photography on the blog is great, all the recommendations are great, a glimpse into sublime combinations, the 10.17 Tumblr is one I constantly peruse!

Pics from 10.17, as linked above

enjoy!

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Kiki de Montparnasse

Alice Prin, better known as Kiki de Montparnasse, 1901-1953, another muse to the French set that bloggy girls will be daydreaming about for decades to come, a face and style captured during a moment in time

The famous Man Ray portrait

Imagine, having been young in the 1920's! We romanticise it now, but with a lot in modern life lacking mystery, how nice to see an it girl who'll always have a certain mystique, never to be fully revealed or understood

Pics from Pinterest

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Luisa Casati

An eccentric Italian heiress, the Luisa Casati cemented her place in dandy and eccentrics history with the otherworldly tales that are still told about her, such as keeping wax figures as permanent guests at her table and her firm friendships with many people in exile, among them many artists.

The Marchesa was famed for using live snakes to wear as jewellery and for walking around with leashed cheetahs whilst herself naked under a fur coat. Artists were captured by her, and still to this day she is cited as an inspiration for many, read more about her here

Pics from Tumblr

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Victorian era pet costumes

Freaked out when I found these adorable pictures! The Victorians, though outwardly puritanical, certainly had a sense of humour.

The dog above, he looks so dashing and down to business!

If this cat asked to see my ticket aboard a train, I wouldn't think twice, what a dapper chap(per)!

Delightful! Pics taken from Pinterest

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Old world sparkle

Lady Lavery

Life magazine covers

Merle Oberon

A midsummer night's dream

Medusa

All pics from Tumblr

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Inside a black apple

Inside a black apple has been a favourite blog for years. Not only is Emily its creator the most talented artist and writer, but she takes lovely photos of her pursuits in all things vintage

What a lovely locket

and here is a real slice from a human heart, a vintage slide from London! 

You can see more of her beautiful travels here

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