Candy ball

Koo Seong Youn is a Korean photographer born in 1969.

Yummy.

Between floating and emerging

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The most commonly cited difference between these flowers is that the leaves of lotus are emergent, meaning that they rise above the water level, whereas the leaves of water lily are found floating on the water surface.

Wallflower

William Morris (1834 – 1896): English textile designer, artist, writer and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. 

Botanical patterns and quotes by William Morris.

There was a knight came riding by

In early spring, when the roads were dry;

And he heard that lady sing at the noon, 

Two red roses across the moon.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. 

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. 

I know a little garden close

Set thick with lily and red rose, 

Where I would wander if I might 

From dewy dawn to dewy night. 

And have one with me wandering.

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Give me love and work – these two only. 

Sweet visual voyage here. Thank you to captain Morris.

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Erysimum cheiri (Aegean wallflower) flowers by Dave Kennard (2012) (link)

That wallflower is actually one of the most interesting people I've ever met.

Ballooning over

Ballooning over the Inlet

Roger Bansemer painted a series of Florida's tropical wilderness based on a trip to the Withlacoochee river on Florida's West Coast USA.

 Endless Marsh 

 Flying the Flats

 Ibis on the Move 

 Lightning Strike

 Osprey and Egrets

 Quiet Flight

 Silent Music in the Marsh

 Spoonbill Island

 The Gathering

 The Glow after the Rain

 The Shallow Inlet

The Spoonbill Tree

Withlacoochee probably stems from a Muskhogean dialect. It is compounded of Creek we (water), thlako (big) and chee (little) or little big water. 

Pre-WW1 watercolor aircraft

Breguet Biplane 1910 Military Type

Charles Hubbell (1899 – 1971) was born in Cleveland Ohio USA. As a boy of 10 he became interested in aviation when a friend gave him an aeronautical magazine. Before he completed high school, he had designed and built many models as well as a man-sized glider. He graduated from the Cleveland School of Art in 1923. He traded his early paintings for flight time, soloing in 1925. 

Here are presented fourteen of forty watercolors of historic pre-WW1 and early WW1 aircraft by Charles Hubbell. They were exhibited during his one-man show at the Smithsonian in 1960 and at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh in 1987.

We believe they are some of his favorites as they were kept by him, then later sold by his estate. 

 Bleriot XI Monoplane 1909

 Caudron Monoplane 1912

 Clement-Bayard Monoplane 1912

 Deperdussin Monoplane 1911

 Dunne Biplane 1910

 First Curtiss Tractor Late 1912

 Glenn Curtis Biplane 1909

 Louis Breguet First Biplane 1909

 Maurice Farman 1912 British Military Trials

 Morane Monoplane 1912 Rene Bedell Pilot

 Morane Saulnier Monoplane 1913

 Nieuport Monoplane 1912

Sopwith Tabloid 1913-1914

Pere Ubu is a experimental rock band also from Cleveland Ohio USA. Dub Housing (1978) is an album I really enjoy.