Константин Сомов

 

Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов, November 30, 1869 – May 6, 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Born into a family of a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator Andrey Ivanovich Somov, he became interested in 18th-century art and music at an early age.  WikiArt

Пастораль 1896

 Портрет Луизы Морган

Опушка леса. Лигово 1894 

Вечерний пейзаж

Портрет А.И.Сомова, отца художника

Интерьер на даче Павловых

Пашня  1900

 

Dogwood 2021

 

My backyard dogwood is showy this year!

вика с бабушкой

 

Victoria with her Grandmother

The Garden Temple

 

The Garden Temple

Studio City CA

The Garden Temple is an enterprise in Studio City, California, that "...designs and crafts products for garden and home. "  I was disappointed to find the gate locked that Sunday in 2008 when I was visiting Southern California as I wanted to walk about the temple grounds.  It's quite compelling. 

I gleaned these pictures from their website.

In 1956 we lived in a little house around the corner, long before the neighborhood evolved and the Garden Temple came into being.  Our house and most the the neighborhood has been razed and rebuilt, so it is serendipitous that the backyard where I spent so many hours as a nine year old--  alone and with my brothers-- has become a place of art and serenity. 

The small shed in the picture had been one brother's chemistry lab, and later another brother's bank. 

Danny Boy

DANNY BOY-- by Eva Cassidy

 

Mothers are the First Educators

 

Day Lily Garden by Debra Stewart

"...mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is the mothers who determine the happiness, the future greatness, the courteous ways and learning and judgement, the understanding and the faith of their little ones." --'Abdu'l-Bahá