“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

“The finch, the sparrow and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dared not answer nay” - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

#SilentSunday #ShakespeareSunday #birds #birding #FemaleBirds #spring #April #nature #SolaceInNature