apples and snakes

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

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THE HUMAN GARDEN

 

“I have no regrets,

I only think that I should have

   liberally applied the weed killer more often…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2010.

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IN ANNE’S GARDEN

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Shottery, England taken in July 1975.

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BAREFOOT GIRL

 

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary;

going barefoot is mere populism.” 

 

~ John Updike ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

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THE SECRET GARDEN

 

“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019. Provided by Mühlberger Media.

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GARDEN SCENE (صحنه باغ)

 

“I was twenty-one when I wrote this,

with the long path of my life

stretching unknown before me.”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in August 2017.

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FLOWER CUNT WITH BEE

 

“The lovely flowers embarrass me,

They make me regret I am not a bee.”

 

~ Emily Dickinson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

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APPLES AND SNAKES

 

“I should have no use for a paradise in which

I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”

 

~ Jean Rostand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a model for a Rosenthal porcelain figure “Die Hockende” sculpted by Fritz Klimsch in 1935, taken in October 2018.

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THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAIL

 

“Black as the devil, hot as hell,

pure as an angel, sweet as love.”

 

~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2018.

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FAT HENS

 

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

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UNE MAISON DE CAMPAGNE

 

“He is the happiest, be he king or peasant,

who finds peace in his home.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Dordogne Valley, France in July 1985.

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BEE

 

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Notre Dame in Paris in June 2017.

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ELLEBASI

 

“There’s a hazy smile on her lips that won’t go away,

and her hair is a mess.

It’s like a brush fire filled with casualties.”

 

~ Lauren DeStefano ~

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Orléans, France in May 2017.

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HOUSE AND GARDEN

 

“She has a house and garden,

I would like to see what happens…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2013.

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