Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solitude. Show all posts

Quiet reading under an autumn tree.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

~Henry David Thoreau


Reading in Autumn Mountain
Shen Zhou 1427-1509

Reading in a Field
Ernest Welvaert 1880-1946

What my plants get up to when I'm not home ;)
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How to read in a quiet place.
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And when it's freezing rain outside, you double down.
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Books Still Life


Quietude
noun
a state of stillness, calmness and quiet in a person or place.



Autumn paths and apple collection. There is so much to love about this time of year, where to begin? 


Reading by the Shore

Read Everywhere.


And here we see a small human in her natural environment. 
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Early Autumn 
by Alexander Ignatius Roche
(Scottish 1861 - 1921)


Home Sweet Home
Lake Biwa by Koho Shoda, Japan (1871-1946)
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A comforting kind of clutter.


Reading at night.

[I do a lot of this]
 

Fairy Tales 
by Christina Paterson Ross (1843-1906)