Last Night’s Moon

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April moon, Merchant of Venice quotations, moonlight, pink moon, Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams! / so shines a good deed in a weary world.

The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Afternoon Shadows

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acrylics, arches, shadows, Spring flowers

Acrylics by Candia Dixon-Stuart

My Blackbird

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Birdsong, blackbird, nesting, Spring

Surprised that he didn’t wear himself out last summer, when he sang

continuously for months.

Photo by Candia

View from a Window

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acrylics, garden shed, topiary, view from a window

…in acrylics.  By Candia Dixon-Stuart.

Exhortation

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exhortation, love thy neighbour, Scottish Makar, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scottish poet, Ten Commandments, William Dunbar

William Dunbar 15th century Scottish poet. 

Photo by Stephen C Dickson (Wikimedia)

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

 

To God be humble,

to thy friend be kind

and with thy neighbour, gladly lend and borrow;

his chance tonight,

it may be thine tomorrow.

Self-Isolation

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Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, National Portrait Gallery, Rev Robert Walker, self-isolation, skating

…can still be fun. 

Think of the Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

(National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh).

Lightbulb Moment – Shop Alone

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lightbulb moment, monkey, Mowgli, Oxford, Westgate Centre

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Before Lockdown

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Coronavirus Pandemic, Cotswolds, lockdown, Oxfordshire, riding, White Horse Hill

Rider on White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

‘Max’ RIP

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acrylic painting, cats, pets

Painting in acrylics by Candia.  Not my cat, but he was loved by everyone round here.

Last Rembrandt Post for Now

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Ashmolean, Good Samaritan, oman at the Well, Oxford, Rembrandt, self-portrait

From ‘The Young Rembrandt’ exhibition @ The Ashmolean, Oxford.