here is a b♥x, a ♫♪ musical ♪♫ b♥x: millennium

for my 1,000th piece. . .

. . .I'd like to share with you (one of whom will be the ♫♪ musical ♪♫ b♥x's, 15,000th visitor. . .) one of my favourite paintings

I only have a postcard of it. . . the postcard came from Norway, many many years ago (long story - not one for a place like this). . . I've never quite been able to make out the artist's signature. . . I've tried looking for it on the internet many times. . . this time I was determined to find it!

so, my quest started with what I did know - an exhibition of Norwegian art I saw at The Hayward Gallery, sometime in the mid 1980s. . .

called Dreams of A Summer Night. . .

. . .which took me to the artist Kitty Lange Kielland,
and other paintings from
the National Museum of Art in Oslo. . .

. . .I can't remember why or where,
but from there I somehow managed to segue thru
The Princess and The Pea. . .
.

. . .via some lovely windows and shadows. . .

to Scandinavian folk tales. . .

where I finally tracked down the name of one of the characters I sought: Kvitebjorn Kong Valemon, which led me to an approximate image of what I was looking for
.

and somehow. . .
I then found them:

(-:

love after love

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

DEREK WALCOTT

feeling kinky?

Thank you for the days, those endless days, those sacred days you gave me. I’m thinking of the days - I won’t forget a single day, believe me. I bless the light, I bless the light that lights on you, believe me. And though you’re gone, you’re with me every single day, believe me. Days. I remember all my life. Days when you can’t see wrong from right. You took my life but then I knew that very soon you’d leave me. But it’s alright. Now I’m not frightened of this world believe me. I wish today could be tomorrow, the night is long it just brings sorrow, let it wait. And though you’re gone, you’re with me every single day - believe me.

Every single day. Believe me.

Henry W Longfellow

The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, and on its outer point, some miles away, the lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard along its base, A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides in the white tip and tremour of the face. And as the evening darkens, lo! how bright, through the deep purple of the twilight air, Beams forth the sudden radiance of its light, with strange, unearhly splendour in the glare! No one alone: from each projecting cape And perilous reef along the ocean's verge, Starts into life a dim, gigantic shape, Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge... The sea-bird wheeling round it, with the din of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded and maddened by the light within, Dashes himself against the glare, and dies. A new Prometheus, chained upon the rock, Still grasping in his hand the fire of love, it does not hear the cry, nor heed the shock, but hails the mariner with words of love. "Sail on!" it says: "Sail on, ye stately ships! And with your floating bridge the ocean span; Be mine to guard this light from all eclipse. Be yours to bring man neared unto man."

it's all right

Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right.
Little darling, it's been
a long cold lonely winter.
Little darling, it feels like
years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun
and I say it's all right.
Little darling, the smiles
returning to the faces.
Little darling, it seems like
years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun
and I say it's all right.
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that
ice is slowly melting.
Little darling, it seems like
years since it's been clear.
Here comes the sun,
here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right.
It's all right.

THE BEATLES

true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

what would YOU do?

What would do think
if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up
and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears
and I'll sing you a song,
And I'll try not to sing out of key.

I get by with a little help from my friends, I get high with a little help from my friends, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends.

What do I do when my love is away? (Does it worry you to be alone?) How do I feel by the end of the day? (Are you sad because you're on your own?)

No, I get by with a little help from my friends, Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends, Mmm, I'm gonna to try with a little help from my friends

Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time. What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.

Oh... I get by
with a little help from my friends,
I'm gonna try
with a little help from my friends
I get high
with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get by
with a little help from my friends,
with a little help from my friends...

12 comments:

Rimshot said...: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-Bear-King-Valemon

I'd make a linky thing, but as you know...

)-:

additionally: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102247/; 21:38
katherine. said...: One thousand...thank you for sharing all of it with us!

I love the little journey you took to find your painting....

well done Rim!; 22:20
I, Like The View said...: thanks shot. . . that is a better version of the painting

am not sure about the film. . .

katherine I really like the princess and the pea image actually! had forgotten how much I love Dulac's illustrations

(altho funnily enough yesterday I found a box containing my small collection of antiquarian books, mainly fairy tale books with beautiful tipped in illustration plates)

if you like Dulac, check out more of his work here:

http://dulac.artpassions.net/; 23:34
Anonymous G said...: Dreams of a Summer Night is positively dreamy...

Lucious colors in The Princess and The Pea...

I love the light and shadows in the windows...

Thanks for sharing your art with me. I know nothing 'bout art, but I do know what I like :)

xo
Happy 1,000!
am I 15,000??; 03:52
Mel said...: 15,000 visitors?!
HOLY moly.....

Yup--the bear is a keeper. And it really was an awesome journey to bring us to him and her.

And I do love the princess and the pea print. Thinkin' it's the quilts that do it for me.

<-- apparently a sucker for a good quilt print?

Oh, but I'm glad you persevered!! :-)

(kinda hoping G's the 15,000)
Congratulations on the 1,000th, btw!; 05:46
Dave said...: 15,000 different vistors? Or just Mel coming here regularly?; 08:04
I, Like The View said...: mainly the regulars dave, (and the non-commenting lurkers), altho there are quite a few people still seeking the hidden meaning to the insides of the Galaxy wrappers and some wanting to know more about Peter Sarstetd's follow up song to Where Do You Go To My Lovely, Last of the Breed. . .

funnily enough your birthday blog get 10-15 visitors a day!

Mel I love the quilts too - very much! it's been a long time since I've made a quilt. . . the next one I do will be based on a Klimpt, I have decided that much. . .

g I'm glad you like some of what I like

(-:; 10:35
Mel said...: Okay, okay, okay.....*laughing*

He might have a point.
MIGHT mind you.

<-- creature of habit

<-- creature of habit wishing you a good Wednesday morning!; 10:50
I, Like The View said...: it's quality that counts mel, not quantity

<------ is very glad you got (one of) your package(s)

really really really really glad you liked it!!!

AND very glad you opened it NOW and didn't save it for later on in December. . .; 10:59
I, Like The View said...: :-D

you've brought a smile to my face this Wednesday morning - a big one

tyvvvvvvvvvvm; 11:00
Anonymous said...: Ooh! A Klimt Quilt! Fabulous idea!
And what a heavenly, beautiful journey through Scandinavia :) (Mostly Scandinavia?); 14:01
Sorrow said...: I humbly apologize, but early is not in my vocabulary..
I am good with left overs.
These were a lovely montage..
I'm off to follow the rims links..
Adoring fan of folk tales!
( that i am !); 03:29

here is a b♥x, a ♫♪ musical ♪♫ b♥x

millennium

12 comments:

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oh, what a day!

happy blogging with iltv

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circle of clues camper

what a to do. . .

festivities on a friday:

get the feeling!

a fruitful friday

. . .and for mel

(I'm growing vegetables!)

frets but no regrets

guiseppe ungaretti

word?

does santa need a helper?

join in the festive fun @

jingle shells

so who's up for an advent calendar. . .

forgetfulness. . .

if you could travel within you own life time and that of a loved one, as a casual observer, nothing more or less, on the unerstanding this would mean that you could not change the course of your life or theirs in anyway, would you wish to experience that?

how old are you?

THE RICHES OF A RAINBOW?

HEY! I have a glass. . .

YOU CALLED?

some sauce. . .

a true friend gave me this

like a clock whose hands are spinning

the love hearts never lie, but did they tell the truth?

"hitched to everything else"

need to borrow this?

rock paper scissors?

can you keep a secret. . .

with love from france

there has been a request for "it all"

when push comes to shove, courtesy of Rascal Flatts

j is for jack-o-lantern

guess what the tide washed up? ME!!

a bientot cheri(e)s

ILTV is shortly to go on her hols. . . should she:

holes

the time has come. . .

love after love

I could have danced

feeling kinky?

god only knows

ILTV wonders whether (or not) to 'av' a change of avatar

is it better or worse to be

tied up?

tied together?

tied down?

if u know who they r. . .

thank you, mig

I'm knackered & in need of a break - where shall I go

busy busy busy

Koyaanisqatsi

this Thursday: you are cordially invited to a fancy dress party - rsvp!

language. . .

i like the view!

and I love typography

my best ever read

blind date

blind date - update: anything you want to know?

you have unpicked the stitches I so carefully placed around my heart

it's my blog but. . .

a life in only six words

paper scissors stone

fancy a game. . .

Henry W Longfellow

having saved myself ££££s on the curtains, what should I now spend the money on:

fancy a new poll/quiz?

something random. . .

with thanks to mig :)

it's all right

the cat's mother

money, money, money

true minds