Movie stills from different period films show the same dresses worn in different movies by different actresses. Love that someone took the time to notice these! And there are more at this link. These two are my favorites. Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) from North and South and Elinor Dashwood (Emma Thompson) from Sense and Sensibility, respectively.
July 1st at the library sale. Lucky me, look what I found. Looks like we're going to need another bookshelf soon. Oh, dear.
Do yourself a favor and watch Doctor Thorne on Amazon Prime. It is based on the novel by Anthony Trollope. Here are some one word reasons to watch:
Brilliant
Exquisite
Light
Wholesome
Deep
The older I get, the more I realize I love the days of May. The world awakens and beauty springs forward. May always feels old fashioned to me because it brings the old world's dearest things to the front again. Things like picking flowers from the garden into a vase and hearing new birdsong and thinking of rhymes. Taking long walks when it warms and opening back doors to let the fresh air come in. I rather like old world things because they are simple yet profoundly beautiful and meaningful. The old world saw such things and embraced the loveliness they brought, turning these simple things into deeply loved practices to adorn our days.
I came across these stunning images by artist Ji-Hyuk Kim this morning. These are beautiful interpretations of Anne's story that I am thrilled many children will come to know Anne by. Anne's story needs to be handed down to the next generation and it's wonderful to see that she still inspires us today. Honestly, I have been thinking about her era and the simplicity and beauty of it. Lucy Montgomery has captured the magic of the time and the island and also the nuances of the natural world that she noticed in her lifetime in Green Gables. Life wasn't perfect, in fact, it deals with many hard things such as being an orphan. But life is meant to be experienced deeply and Anne did. So should we.
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What can be said about dearest Anne?
She introduced me to Tennyson, rambles, and Avonlea.
Her era was simple and beautiful. Life was drunk deeply and lived eloquently.
The Highwayman recited before a gathered audience, picking apples in fall, reading lines between work.
She noticed beauty in the White Way of Delight, in fact, she noticed, everything around her, from the smallest flower of Queen Anne's Lace to The Lake of Shining Waters.
I aspire to Anne-Inspired living.
Recently I've been reading quite a bit more than is usual for me these days. I happened to pick up a vintage paperback copy of Silas Marner and read the back story which intrigued me, and so began reading it. It didn't hurt that I was given a hug light that allowed me to read laying flat in bed with tiny lights shining up at the words to urge me on through the book. So I began.
The story unfolded gently and I was thankful for this since George Eliot is not one of my favorites particularly. In fact, the volumes of hers that I have read could only be called slim. I am pleased to say that Silas Marner is now one of my favorite classic books.
It worried me that his story would remain sad and end badly. But, I read on, and was again pleased with the story and his growth as a character. Pleased that Effie, his daughter, was loyal to him to the end. Being that Jean Valjean and Michael Henchard are two of my favorite book characters, I feared that Silas' story would rank among these, but the ending came together happily for once.
I recommend this book if you are looking for something new to read. My reading habits used to be insatiable and have slowed as I've gotten older, but I'm turning over a new leaf (pun intended).
