“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
The double espresso, please
Frank C Pape
The wolf and the lamb.
Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869.
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Garten, 03 Mai 2013
Apfelbaum, Hartriegel und Dornenstrauch
Wiesen-Schaumkraut (Cardamine pratensis)
Vergissmeinnicht (Myosotis)
Zitronen-Melisse (Melissa officinalis), Pfefferminze (Mentha x piperita), Rose
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Some more garden impressions, photographed this evening catching the last sunbeams…
Apple Blossoms
Bee collecting pollen from Cuckoo Flowers (Cardamine pratensis)
Cuckoo Flowers on our meadow (Cardamine pratensis)
Alraune (Mandragora officinarum) leaf, photographed against the sun
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Toad hanging out… it probably spent the winter near the house or in the basement and obviously it didn’t starve.
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This is a beautifully carved ritual skull. The artwork is Tibetan and this is definitely one of the better carved skulls.
“dryad” - Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, 2011 (mixed media)
Night and Day.
Michael Parkes
