this dove's nest

Nightmare, Artie Shaw. 1938. A great piece of music.

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:22:50 +0000

Nightmare, Artie Shaw. 1938. A great piece of music.

Always time for tea. This exhibit courtesy of Sunderland Museum.

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:42:12 +0000

Always time for tea. This exhibit courtesy of Sunderland Museum.

white tipped fir

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000

white tipped fir

"The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest..."

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:35:02 +0000

“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life.”

- LeRoy Pollock writing to 16 year old son Jackson

via Brain Pickings

Oh, To Be a Kid Again: A very short story

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000

The air felt like it could have been cut with a butter knife on that mid August afternoon. A late summer thunderstorm hung in the sky 20 miles west, a normal occurrence this time of year, which made the air thick and heavy. The clouds hadn’t quite reached the Devereux home yet and so the sun was still visible high overhead. Gnats buzzed and flew around each other aimlessly on the 159 year old porch, as if they too wanted inside, away from the heat and humidity. Remnants of lunch were left strewn on the porch steps. Sweet tea and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the only thing the Devereux kids had eaten all summer.

Annabelle and her little brother Bobby were now sitting at the weathered front bay window of their Nana Cecily’s house, watching intently down the long graveled, tree lined driveway. The conditions outside had just been too much for them to bear and they’d retreated indoors. Nana, of course didn’t have any air conditioning in her house, as the Devereux home hadn’t gone through a major renovation since the invention of such a luxury. All she had were a few old vintage looking fans in front of which she placed bowls full of block ice. The ice helped, but the children sat miserable, too drained to joke and play fight as they usually did at home in the city at this time of day.

“Why oh why do mom and dad stick me here?” 12 year old Annabelle thought to herself as she sat there with Bobby, still staring out the window. She was just too old now to be spending summers at her Nana’s house. In fact, at that very moment she would have rather been at camp with her two best friends Vivi and Darla, where she imagined them swinging on a rope into the lake, horseback riding, and eating s’mores around a big campfire with the rest of the campers. She sat bitterly still, silently daydreaming of dancing with the cutest boy in school at the end-of-camp dance, until the noise she and her brother had been waiting for all day made their ears prick up.

The familiar song got them into action. They hopped up quickly and were out the door in a flash, jumping over the leftover lunch, and running down the same rough graveled driveway they had been staring down for the last hour. The driveway seemed to stretch on forever, but Annabelle and Bobby just kept running, not wanting to miss their daily, ice cold fix. Bobby pulled ahead, as Annabelle unconsciously slowed down. Just as the ice cream truck approached the end of the driveway, Bobby’s little legs reached it first in triumph, with Annabelle pulling up behind him, both almost running into the side of the truck out of sheer inertia. They had made it.

Annabelle completely forgot about Vivi, Darla, s’mores and the end of camp dance, as she walked back up the driveway with Bobby, vanilla ice cream dripping down her chin.

-Carly Dove

nil desperandum

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:28:12 +0000

nil desperandum

bright blue skies in Mowbray Park today

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:20:08 +0000

bright blue skies in Mowbray Park today

Beautiful spot for Marni at H&M, directed by Sofia Coppola....

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:00:06 +0000

Beautiful spot for Marni at H&M, directed by Sofia Coppola. Music, “Avalon” by Bryan Ferry, is one of my favorites.

From H&M:

“Set in Marrakesh, Morocco, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Sofia Coppola has directed this commercial for the Marni at H&M collection.

Director of Photography: Harris Savides
Stylists: Lucinda Chambers and Michelle Rafferty
Models/actors: Imogen Poots and Sam Hayes. Antonine Peduzzi, Nicolas Peduzzi, Annabelle Dexter Jones, Charlie Klarsfeld , Liu Wen, Jonatan Frenck and Langley Fox
Featured song: “Avalon”, by Bryan Ferry.

Marni at H&M is available in selected stores and online on March 8th, except in Japan and Singapore where the collection launch is scheduled for March 10th, 2012.”

via talkativolive: Excerpt of a letter from Zelda To Scott...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:07:33 +0000

via talkativolive:

Excerpt of a letter from Zelda To Scott Fitzgerald, in Spring of 1919.
“Sweetheart,

Please, please don’t be so depressed — We’ll be married soon, and then these lonesome nights will be over forever — and until we are, I am loving, loving every tiny minute of the day and night — Maybe you won’t understand this, but sometimes when I miss you most, it’s hardest to write — and you always know when I make myself — Just the ache of it all — and I can’t tell you. If we were together, you’d feel how strong it is — you’re so sweet when you’re melancholy. I love your sad tenderness — when I’ve hurt you — That’s one of the reasons I could never be sorry for our quarrels — and they bothered you so — Those dear, dear little fusses, when I always tried so hard to make you kiss and forget —

Scott — there’s nothing in all the world I want but you — and your precious love — All the material things are nothing. I’d just hate to live a sordid, colorless existence — because you’d soon love me less — and less — and I’d do anything — anything — to keep your heart for my own — I don’t want to live — I want to love first, and live incidentally — Why don’t you feel that I’m waiting — I’ll come to you, Lover, when you’re ready — Don’t don’t ever think of the things you can’t give me — You’ve trusted me with the dearest heart of all — and it’s so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had —

How can you think deliberately of life without me — If you should die — O Darling — darling Scott — It’d be like going blind. I know I would, too, — I’d have no purpose in life — just a pretty — decoration. Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you — to be worn — I want you to wear me, like a watch — charm or a button hole boquet — to the world. And then, when we’re alone, I want to help — to know that you can’t do anything without me.”

winter walk in the park

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:58:54 +0000

winter walk in the park

remnants of the old part of queen alexandra bridge in...

Sat, 28 May 2011 13:16:21 +0100

remnants of the old part of queen alexandra bridge in sunderland

properchange:

On my way to work… North Queen Alexandra Bridge.

I’ve never wanted to visit Paris more than I do right now,...

Thu, 26 May 2011 23:35:00 +0100

I’ve never wanted to visit Paris more than I do right now, after watching this lovely piece of film!

anthropologie:

I love this “Live the Language” video series. The Paris video is my favorite - it makes me want to take a trip overseas for flowers and macarons.

Via: Albin Holmqvist

breathtaking. by TSO Photography

Sun, 22 May 2011 02:08:00 +0100

breathtaking.

by TSO Photography

ckck: The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France....

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:08:35 +0100

ckck:

The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. September 30th, 1909. Photographed in Autochrome Lumière by Léon Gimpel.

properchange: 99 at the beach. Delicious.

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:29 +0100

properchange:

99 at the beach. Delicious.

roker beach

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:06 +0100

roker beach

walk through roker park

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:01:05 +0100

walk through roker park

spring time

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:00:05 +0100

spring time

properchange: Backhouse Park, Sunderland @ Sunset. On a Walk...

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:50:50 +0100

properchange:

Backhouse Park, Sunderland @ Sunset. On a Walk with Carly.

high force, teesdale

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:00:07 +0100

high force, teesdale