Velvet Hydrangea

@velvethydrangea.bsky.social

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Dog mom. Artist. New Englander. New Yorker. Angeleno. New Englander again. Xennial.

Frank Sinatra looks at the camera for his mug shot, a few stray locks of hair hang loose over his forehead on one side. He looks 18 and lean. His placard reads "Bergen County Sheriff's office 11 27 38 42799" as it hangs from a chain around his neck.
BEWARE OF ARTISTS They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous As printed during the McCarthy era, from a quote from King Leoplold I of Belgium in 1845
A photograph of the described flowers
Gentileschi's "Judith and her Maidservant with the head of Holofornes." Painted in rich primary color with great detail, the women look into the darkness hoping not to be discovered as they carry his head in a basket filled with rags. Judith still holds his sword, still with his blood on it.
274953, putting me in the first 10%
Aramis began to laugh. 'Still Agreeable, still young, still gay,' said he. 'You have come into my diocese to set me quarreling with divine grace.' Bah!' 'And you know well that I was never able to resist your seductions; you will cost me my salvation, D'Artagnan.' D'Artagnan bit his lips. 'Well,' said he, 'I will take the sin on my own head, favor me with one simple Christian sign of the cross, favor me one pater, and we will depart.' 'Hush!' said Aramis, 'we are already no longer alone, I hear visitors coming up.' 'Well, dismiss them.'