Even the simplest things can be beautiful..

1930s BBC schools broadcast leaflets

I do wish they would reprint these books with their original Vanessa Bell covers...

Books. Lovely, lovely books.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald

Words that go well together - Autumn. Sunday. Afternoon. Stroll.

If you click on the pictures, I think they get bigger

If you go down to the woods today...

 Wittan, Witty or Mountain Ash, below, was widely held to be sacred and powerful in Britain until very recently.

"Heaps of people have never seen the sunrise...they've missed something. I think there ought to be a law that says everyone must watch a sunrise and everyone must see a bluebell wood and a buttercup field and..."

Enid Blyton's Adventurous 4

To study something of great age until one grows
familiar with it and almost to live in its time, is not
merely to satisfy a curiosity or to establish aimless
truths: it is rather to fulfil a necessity of appetite for history -

Hilaire Belloc

                                                      Donnington Church, Herefordshire

 Fritillaria, Walberswick by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

 The Old Nail Shop, Greenway, Dymock. Home of the Dymock Poets prior to the Great War.

 Carnation, lily, lily rose. John Singer Sargent

 Tidmarsh Mill, by Dora Carrington

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