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A discovery that I had to share with my readers:

original literature-inspired illustrations by New York City based designer Evan Robertson. Check out his etsy website here for the full collection. Each illustration is 13"x19" and only $24. 

I'd love to see Robertson's take on two of my favorite lines from Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise: 

"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."

or

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want to pleasure of losing it again."

starry nights

images: 1. st. patrick's cathedral in manhattan 2. 30th street station in philadelphia

both by fashionable palette

nightly architecture, knightly architecture...

as though the ocean

images: (I warn -- many I saved a long, long time ago without credits. My sincere apologies.) 1. Clemence Poesy in a Chloe ad via clemence-poesy.org 2. Daniel Farmer photography 3. love the linear look of the flowers and frames, unknown 4. symmetry pleases the eye, unknown 5. a jewelry chandelier...genius, unknown. 6. this house looks so welcoming, unknown 7. fun masks...very New Orleans, unknown 8. beautiful mosaic bench and styling, unknown

I try hard to post photos that I have saved with credits, but my desire to credit appropriately leaves some amazing photos out of this blog and only to be enjoyed by my eyes (a sad, sad thing)...so I wanted to do a post of many "unknowns." Enjoy.

Also, I am currently reading Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952). It's a wonderful book so far, and just last night I came across a beautiful quote. Here it is:

"...as though the ocean were making love with something under a yellow blanket..." Only Hemingway. Beautiful.