“ … Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight …” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #dogwood #bloomscrolling #flora #flowers #spring #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature #creationstruck #ChooseDelight

Wisp

"A little gale will soon disperse that cloud
And blow it to the source from whence it came:
The very beams will dry those vapours up,
For every cloud engenders not a storm."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Henry VI, Part III

A scrap of cloud is sitting in a shadowed valley, safe in the lee. The gentle breeze lacks the strength to disperse it, and the slowly encroaching sunlight touches the crown.

Öxnadalsheiði, north-eastern Iceland.

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography

... you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me; the courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born;...

#ShakespeareSunday
As You Like It [I, 1]

#ShakespearesBirthday was April 23
My brother John's is April 28

“When daisies pied and violets blue / And lady-smocks all silver-white / And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight” - William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost

#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #spring #bloomscrolling #flowers #flora #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature

It may be St George's Day today, but more importantly for me, as a girl born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, it's #Shakespearesbirthday

I painted this #map of all the plays of #Shakespeare to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death, which was also 23 April. The man was a genius.

#painting #shakespeareSunday #williamshakespeare #englishTeacher #cartography

Gadshill: Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?

#ShakespeareSunday
History of Henry IV, Part I [II, 1]

Doctor Who "The Chase", 1965
In which Ian and Barbara return home