“When I have something to say
that I think will be too difficult for adults,
I write it in a book for children.
Children are excited by new ideas;
they have not yet closed the doors
and windows of their imaginations.
Provided the story is good...
nothing is too difficult for children.”
~ Madeleine L'Engle

Guardian Angels appear in all forms of Love & Light

 

I found this on Facebook
but no name of artist
but I had to share, this is soooo wonderful and amazing
don’t you think?

Onion-stalked Lepiota (Lepiota cepaestipes)

Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook)
vol. 2, by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.

~Vintage Illustration

Jacques Le Moyne De Morgues (1533-1588)

~Vintage Illustration

Classis II Papilionum Noctornum (Bomcyx gini) V.1

~Vintage Illustration..

ANTIQUE 1905
Botanical Book Plate 83
Anchusa

by wordsandmelodies

~Quote..

"Smells are surer than sounds and
sights to make heart strings crack" 
by  Rudyard Kipling

~Mushrooms

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing
fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced
above ground on soil or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is
the cultivated white button mushroom,
Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom"
is most often applied to those fungi
(Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a
stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella)
or pores on the underside of the cap.

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~A few beautiful and vintage Mushroom illustrations~ 


 

~Vintage Illustrations..

~The Blossom

   
Merry, Merry Sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.

Pretty, Pretty Robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, Pretty Robin,
Near my Bosom.

by William Blake

~Vintage Illustrations..

Merry, Merry Sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.

Pretty, Pretty Robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, Pretty Robin,
Near my Bosom.

by William Blake

 

A white blanket covers the yard.
Snowflakes fly swiftly threw the air.
There sits a Cardinal on the frozen bush.
Feathers puffed and bold.
Singing a winter tune.
the wet snowflakes melt on his head.
Hearing the creak of a gate,
and with one swift movement
he lifts into a gentle soar.
Off he goes into the white sky.  
~Unknown to me~

~Vintage Illustrations

~Old Book Illustrations

 

Wishing you all a Wonderful Weekend
XXX ANNA XXX

~Old Illustration

A Bracket Fungus (Polyporus varius) -
groups of fruiting bodies with one sectioned.
Watercolour by G. Harding, 1900
.

~Old Book Illustration

From: Selecta fungorum carpologia ea
documenta et icones potissimum exhibens 

Author: Geney-Gros.; Imperiali Typographeo.;
Tulasne, Charles,; Tulasne,
Louis ReneVolume: v. 3 (1861)

~Old book illustrations

trumpet of death (Craterellus cornucopioides)
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
.

 Hawk’s Wing (hydnum imbricatum)
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde\
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
.
 Boletus edulis var. bulbosus.
Albin Schmalfuss, from Führer für Pilzfreunde
(The mushroom lover’s guidebook) vol. 1,
by Edmund Michael, Zwickau, 1901.
.

~Vintage Botany

~Vintage Illustrations..

Gorgious Vintage Illustrations!
by Robert John Thornton.
(1768-1837)

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