the joker's wild

Vogue UK April 2012 by Paolo Roversi

daphne

Daphne Groeneveld

by Richard Bush,

i-D Spring 2012

lara stone

Lara Stone photographed by Viktor Vauthier

Purely coincidental, however I just realised that Lara is Dutch :)

I seem to have posted about the lovely Netherlands, quite a few times recently!

Ingeborg Klarenbergs

More Dutch wondrousness,

Marvel if you will, at this array of

the Netherlands' landscapes;

a reminder of nature's pure opulence

captured by Ingeborg Klarenbergs

het meisje met de parel

Het Meisje met de Parel

"Girl With a Pearl Earring"

by Johannes Vermeer, circa 1665

We are studying the novel by

 Tracy Chevalier in English,

I am so delighted,

It is such an extraordinary,

enigmatic painting!

l'automne

March has descended upon us,

I am drenched in autumn rain.