Printable Vintage Art: A Walled Garden in Bloom by Annie Pressland

A Walled Garden in Bloom, early 1900s
by Annie Pressland (1862–1933)

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It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Live

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly, digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

My digitally enhanced version of the above painting can be downloaded as a high-res 7” x 5” @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.


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Printable Vintage Art: Pansies and Primroses by Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville

Pansies and Primroses, 19th century
by Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941)

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Knock, and He'll open the door
Vanish, and He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, and He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, and He'll turn you into everything.
― Rumi

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Why I Wake Early
by Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light –
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

You can download a digitally enhanced version of the vintage artwork (seen above) as an 11” x 9” @ 300 ppi JPEG here. Below is a close-up photo I took of a bicolourt tulip called “Flamingo Prince” drenched in morning dew. A lot of my first-year tulips were beheaded by “wascally wabbits” before they had a chance to bloom but I am hoping they will prove to be less tasty next year!

Impressionist Tuulip, 2026 © FieldandGarden.com. All rights reserved.
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Printable Vintage Art: The Terrace, Gwydyr by Ernest Arthur Rowe

The Terrace, Gwydyr
by Ernest Arthur Rowe (1863–1922)

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
― Leo Tolstoy

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
― Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Belles on Their Toes

Vintage painting of a serene and quiet garden scene ; oiginally found on Wikimedia here. Digitally enhanced version can be downloaded as a 11” x 8” @ 300 ppi JPEG here.


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