Friday Beauty
There are few things more alluring and beautiful than palm trees swaying over a turquoise ocean. Yes, we in the Underground, though often wandering through urban and decadent landscapes, do…
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The Winter Solstice
There is a strange and melancholy beauty to the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. On the one hand we experience the day with the least amount of…
Early Fall Beauty
Fall has finally descended upon us, and soon the heat of summer will be a distant memory. There is always something a little haunting about the Fall, with the growing…
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August Beauty
As August, the last full month of summer, begins, let us enjoy all that it may offer in warmth, light and beautiful women!
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The Last Day of Summer
Summer is a time of warmth and beauty and happiness. We all love being warm. We all love light. We all love the ease and freedom that seems to flourish…
The Poetic Beauty of Claude Lorrian’s Summer Landscapes
Claude’s use of light and shade is always beautiful. I have written a post on this great French painter before; but good art can always be appreciated without end. Claude…
The Tropical Beauty of Blue
Blue is my favorite color and this photo is filled with luscious blues. One of the things I enjoy about the tropics are all the different shades of blue that…
Happy May Day!
May is my favorite month of the year. It is the true beginning of the perpetual warmth of spring and summer, and the flowering of so much beauty. It is…
Hello, March
Venus and Mars, by Botticelli, ca. 1483. Now that a most brutal February has finally passed, we can welcome March into the year of 2015. Although March can be cruel–snow…
The Mystical Beauty of the Winter Solstice
We are quickly approaching the shortest day of the year, a day celebrated throughout history as a moment of mystical and religious awe, the Winter Solstice. Although it may seem…