J.R.R. Tolkien, From The Return Of The King

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

‘A spotted flycatcher pair nesting in the palm of a statue’ (by Zsolt Semperger, original post here)

smash or pass a gentle summer rainstorm

let my gardens speak for me when i am gone. let them speak in colored whispers of all the beauty i have seen. and felt. and lived. let them speak of how much death had to find me; how many hard seasons it took to make me a living, breathing thing. let them speak of my seasons of growth and abundance but let them also tell of my seasons of loss and decay. let the soft, wet earth be a reminder of hardness that didn't win. of sadness that didn't calcify. of surrender that triumphed over resistance. and let the glorious, fragrant blooms speak of my life and its greatest lessons: that the beauty we make never dies. ~'come sit by my garden', by emory hall https://emoryhall.com/

EMMA (2020) costume appreciation: 1/∞ (costume design by Alexandra Byrne)

They lived happily ever after.

Eloisa James, from "Storming the Castle"