This painting is by Eugene von Blaas, Italian 1843-1931, La Dama De La Rosa (detail), and is so beautiful. Found the complete piece online, and it's prettier in this 'chopped' version, which someone shared on Tumblr. The faces of his subjects look a bit like silent movie characters---overly made-up and sort of unrealistic. But this painting with the young lady's head missing is, to me, perfect. But then again, I do love pink. Makes it a tiny bit mysterious to not see her face, I think.
Now am all tucked into bed with my new books. Fourth son confiscated my new/used copy of 'Miss Hargreaves' by Frank Baker. I received my copy of 'The Rector's Daughter' by F. M. Mayor today (free with Swagbucks through Amazon), and at the library picked up a couple of on hold books---'The Woman in Black' and 'The Man in the Picture' both by Susan Hill. They're ghost stories, and have wonderful reviews. Will pick up one of those later on tonight, or Molly Wizenberg's 'A Homemade Life'. Began hers the other night and it's a very sweet cookbook/memoir. Can a person write a memoir at around 30 years old? Apparently so! Miss Wizenburg has, and done a very good job of it.
Now listening to RED's new CD, 'Until We Have Faces', that oldest daughter bought for her dad. Love those guys. I'm talking about RED, of course. :) Gotta love middle daughter's MP3 player I'm borrowing.
