J.C. Leyendecker

Happy Easter, let's welcome spring. The above is by artist J.C. Leyendecker [1874-1951] from The Saturday Evening Post. Check out more of his work at LeyendeckerArt. Here's a great quote by Shelley from "Despair", more here, that I feel fits early spring:

                                             [...] thus calm
In cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?
Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed balm
Mid pearly gems of dew that shine so bright?
And you wild winds, thus can you sleep so still
Whilst throbs the tempest of my breast so high?
Can the fierce night-fiends rest on yonder hill,
And, in the eternal mansions of the sky,
Can the directors of the storm in powerless silence lie?