Flower Creatures 

There is no joy like the joy of a writer who has just figured out that a throwaway line they put into the first few paragraphs of a story is actually the key to a major plot point and possibly even the theme underlying the entire thing.

Just…yesssssss.

If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little

Ars longa, vita brevis is a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. The Latin quote is often rendered in English as Art is long, life is short.

pressed flowers

Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.

William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Ocean captures ca.1900; Frederick Judd Waugh.