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Tag: Beauty

Posted on April 17, 2020

Grace Davidson, perhaps the most exquisite soprano voice I have ever heard.

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Posted on January 25, 2019

Winchester at dawn

Posted on January 1, 2019January 1, 2019

Metamorphosis. The eclosion of the Monarch butterfly from its chrysalis & a lady in a beautiful dress clearly designed in awed acknowledgement of this wonder.

 

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Posted on September 30, 2018

Who needs legs?

How true those words are, even to-day!

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Au grand café

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