the last rose of summer

 

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

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long shadows

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.

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THE PERFECT CRIME

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

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THE DEATH OF A ROSE

 

“When I have plucked the rose,

I cannot give it vital growth again,

it needs must wither.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2020.

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STRANGE HOW WE MET

 

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

 

~ Anthony Burgess ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.

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LONG SHADOWS

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.

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A DEAD ROSE

 

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

old Time is still a-flying:

and this same flower that smiles to-day,

to-morrow will be dying.”

 

~ Robert Herrick ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2019.

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DISROBED

 

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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ROSE

 

“Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.”

 

~ Fernando Pessoa ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LA BEAUTÉ D’UNE ROSE

 

“A single rose can be my garden…

a single friend, my world.”

 

~ Leo Buscaglia ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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DÉSIRER

 

“Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when the flowers are dead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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THE PERFECT CRIME

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

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