Nonnie's Observations

bench for friends to sit  and visit or muse awhile always ready, come! seeking shadows? visit Shadow Shot Sunday 2 ! I almost missed seeing the shadow. But I love the design on the back of the bench. This is the porch of a friend I met recently. I am so glad that I made her acquaintance because she is a gem!

DeFur Voran building intriguing  tower- shaped windows  seen downtown! DeFur Voran's website identifies its business in this way: When I captured the windows' reflections, I hadn't noticed which business  was located there.  Only after uploading the image to my computer, did I see the sign. The DeFur Voran law offices have been in Muncie for over 100 years. more reflections at James' Weekend Reflections 

luscious flow'rs, flourishing blossoms snapdragons! I am grateful for spring here in Indiana. We are fortunate this year  for how lush our grass and flowers are looking. Almost everywhere I look my eyes are feasting on the abundance of verdant lawns and color-filled flower gardens.

sepia edit a bit of grey clouds yet not depressingly sad will it rain or not? seeking more sky images? go to Petunia's Himmelsk

quarterlight , terminology, new to me! Quarterlight: small triangular ventilation window in a car   thank you, Phrontistery , for helping me once again to pick a word for ABC Wednesday !

roses, baby's breath a delightful mixture of beauty and scent! more loveliness on Macro Monday

linking to the radiant Rebecca  at  Recuerda Mi Corazon Can’t We Dream? (my paraphrase of part of the article  in the May 2013 issue of “Magnificat”  by Pierre-Marie Dumont) Guillaume Dubufe was a master in Symbolism  at the turn of the 20th century.  Symbolism developed as a poetic and spiritual reaction  against materialism, positivism and rationalism.   These isms were trying to drown out art  by demolishing all sense of the sacred.   French poets Baudelaire, Verlaine and Mallarme,  fathers of Symbolism, predicted that materialism  would dissolve all ties that provide reasons to live,  that is vertical ties uniting us to God  and horizontal ties uniting us among ourselves.  Ever since the Middle Ages,  art has been a reflection of society’s soul.   In present times with the world’s soul being lost, it is thought that  art can only survive by battling this society  so driven by materialism. “Thus, in this House of the Virgin ,  t he vibrations of a white, diaphanous light suffuse

my beloved brother, standing by his comp'ny truck miss his funny ways! linking for the first time to Vintage Weekly