Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Quote of the Day

"We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors." - Stanisław Lem in "Solaris"

Stanisław Lem (September 12, 1921 - March 26, 2006) was a Polish science fiction writer, futurist, philosopher, and essayist. His works have been translated into forty one languages, "Solaris" being probably his best known.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Quote of the Day

If you look the right way, 

you can see that the whole world is a garden.

- Frances Hodgson Burnett in "The Secret Garden" 

 

Happy first day of Spring!

 

Image: Flower Garden - Gustav Klimt, oil on canvass. The Golden Phase, 1905 - 1907

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Bluebonnet

 

Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew
Proudly and loudly, your entrance you make,
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.

- from a poem "Dayspring Bluebonnet" by Alan S Jeeves

Image: Fragment of the painting "Early Spring - Bluebonnets and Mesquite" by Julian Onderdonk, 1919

Poem source here