In the Moonlight…

Tags

, , , , , , ,

© Khrystynana Kazakova

Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover. 
from Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Love looks different in the moonlight.

Model: Khrystynana Kazakova

Ingénue…

Tags

, , , , ,

© Lauren DiMarco

Say you need me with you now and always;
Promise me that all you say is true
That’s all I ask of you… 

from All I Ask of You – Phantom of the Opera 

Please do not go back on your word. I could not bear it.

Model: Lauren DiMarco

You may also like:
Sweet Love

Sweet Roses…

Tags

, , , , , ,

© Joan Currie - My Valentine Roses

She comes not when Noon is on the roses —
Too bright is Day.
She comes not to the Soul till it reposes
From work and play.

But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices
Roll in from Sea,
By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight
She comes to me.
by Herbert Trench 

The sweet fragrance of last night lingers…

Valentine’s Day…

Tags

, , , , , ,

© Joan Currie

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other!
How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always,
to talk to and sit with.
Let’s be a comfortable couple.
by Charles Dickens

Nothing is better than snuggling up with a loved one on this day!

You may also like:
Valentine’s Day

Sunset Over the Bay…

Tags

, , , , ,

© Joan Currie - The South San Francisco Bay

Plum-purple was the west; but spikes of light
Spear’d open lustrous gashes, crimson-white;
(Where the eye fix’d, fled the encrimsoning spot,
And, gathering, floated where the gaze was not;)
And through their parting lids there came and went
Keen glimpses of the inner firmament:
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

I basked in the glorious but fleeting sunset.

Remembering Past Loves…

Tags

, , , , ,

© Ryan Chua

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
from I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke 

Thinking back to my best Valentine’s Day celebrations…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

You may also like:
37 Beautiful Love Songs

A Man’s Education…

Tags

, , , , , ,

© Joan Currie – Seated Student sketch

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as is his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. – Emerson

A diligent student at work…

You may also like:
Books that Made a Difference