A Spotless Rose by Herbert Howells
Love Bade Me Welcome from Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Snowflakes, close up: Snowflakes and Snow Crystals
Fibonacci zoetropes: BLOOMS: Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark on Vimeo
Awwww!
One of my dogs did a reading program for two summers. She was even on the front page of our little local newspaper:
Renoir’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand
I know next to nothing about the visual arts, and I am far, far from what anyone could call an expert, aficionado, or even just casual fan of art. I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art primarily to see their armor collection, but my date talked me into going through the Renoir exhibit. This painting is the only one I remember from that exhibit, and I can’t tell you exactly why, other than that I just stood and stared at it for a long, long, time. I still find it inexplicably captivating.
Oy, I’m getting all verklempt here. Thanks everyone for sharing, and thanks, **Skald **, for starting this thread. Each and every contribution is gorgeous in its own way. I’ll add one of my own, but right now I seem to have something in my eye . . .
Some of the posts above made me think of a few other things.
For automobiles, the 1936 Auburn Boattail Speedster. Sexiest car ever made.
Tintern Abbey in Wales. The day we visited was so picture-perfect, it was as if we had stepped into a painting. There’s something about the juxtaposition of the old, ruined building over the perfectly manicured grass that I find astoundingly beautiful. Even from outside it’s pretty gorgeous.
I pass by this tree every time I go pick up my kids. I’ve always wanted to stop and get a photo. The tree stands thee all by itself.
That’s a sod farm which is why the ground looks like that.
“Who knows where the time goes?” by Fairport Convention
Two engineering masterpieces
Black Hula. I have no idea what the song is about, but I imagine something wistful and poignant.
View from the balcony of my apartment in Latvia, August 2005:
http://postimg.org/image/jno7id421/
Other half:
But it’s certainly worth trying.
Hidden Lake, where I proposed to my (now) wife. Here’s another one of the same location from a slightly different angle, but at high res (3872x2592).
The Gibson L-7c - 100% distilled essence of cool jazz archtop. No frills - form follows function.
The Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster are classic examples of perfect design as well. The Strat is a sexier design, but a Tele is ground zero for solidbody guitars, with the Les Paul coming 2 years later…
Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula.
The north coast of Cornwall:
http://forum.wexphotographic.com/pictures\Cornish%20Storm.jpg
Not enough wildlife represented.