+ poem of the day

” I am the daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursling of the Sky;
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;
I change, but I cannot die. “

- Percy ShelleyFrom: “The Cloud” 1820

+ Unknown Photographer Untitled (Strasbourg from Cathedral Roof), 1871

+ Count Franz Graf von Pocci’s Viola Tricolor: In Pictures and Rhyme (1875, Germany)

Franz Pocci (1807–1876) was Bavarian court official but also a puppeteer, Marionette theater director, illustrator, poet, and playwright. Viola Tricolor's proto-Surrealist anthropomorphic pansies appear to be his best-remembered work. Read more about Pocci at wikipedia and see this website for more of his illustration work.