"In the morning, at daybreak,over the dewy grass,
I will go to breathe the crisp dawn;
and in the fragrant shade,where the lilac crowds,
I will go to seek my happiness... "
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Photographed
today in the early morning light
© by Merisi
Song text
by Ekaterina Andreyena Beketova
English translation
© by Anton Bespalov and Rianne Stam
To listen to
Tamara Sinyavskaya sing
Rachmaninov's "Lilacs'", op. 21 no. 5,
click on this text.
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In the morning, at daybreak,
over the dewy grass,
I will go to breathe the crisp dawn;
and in the fragrant shade,
where the lilac crowds,
I will go to seek my happiness...
In life, only one happiness
it was fated for me to discover,
and that happiness lives in the lilacs;
in the green boughs,
in the fragrant bunches,
my poor happiness blossoms...
By Ekaterina Andreyena Beketova
English translation
© by Anton Bespalov and Rianne Stam
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=2341
Lilacs! I miss having them around but the deer would probably eat them.
ReplyDeleteAhh, lilacs. I usually think of their scent, and then the range of lilac colors. Bees like them, too!
ReplyDeleteYour photos give me a new way to consider the lilacs, with really charged color, against a brilliant sky and nesting in those fresh green leaves. Wow!
Best wishes!
The colors! Wonderful saturation!
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ReplyDeleteStill more lilac inspiration from you!! The photographs, music and poem are just perfect!
I did not get to read the article in the NYT to which you referred in your message to me, but I have to say it does not surprise me! Obviously Empress Maria Theresa was just not sexy enough for them!!
I'm planning a post very soon about some Jose Andres desserts (I remembered you are a fan of his!)
Wishing you a happy evening,
Betty
In England the lilac is usually a blossom of the month of May and for me represents the fullness of spring and return of welcome warm weather. A lovely post.
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ReplyDeleteI didn't know that deer would eat lilacs!
Frances,
I photographed these in a small town along a lake south of Vienna, where lilacs bloom profusely right now, and most have this darker shade of purple, with a few white ones the exception. I love the heady fragrance of lilacs, and at the early hour I was out there, it was very intense.
Vicki Lane,
nature at her showy best! :-)
The Gossamer Tearoom:
Betty,
only reading the name José Andrés makes my mouth water! ;-)
Btw, the article about royals in NY, published in the New York Times, is still online:
Getting the Royal Treatment (click on the title to read it - I have really nothing better to do than read such drivels, do I?)
The offending phrase is "Geza von Habsburg, a descendant of Marie Antoinette’s mother and an expert on the jeweler Fabergé who lives in Westchester County" - Marie Antoinette's mother being the Empress Maria Theresia. ;-)
Wandring Star,
and so it is here in Vienna. Flieder - lilacs - is the epitome of spring. As far as I am concerned, the wheel of time could stop right now, I could live in lilacs time forever.
so pretty! we have a more purple/blue one here, love the color of these!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty.. what beautiful, saturated, vibrant colours. I love lilacs. Mine are still about a week or two from full bloom.
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