What is a birthday, but a celebration of existence and time itself?   The very things the living cannot truly celebrate since they inform our earthly being in every way.

Alternate title:  Flora bringing joy

In shade, we photographers often need large apertures to get sufficient exposure.  I can think of no better illustration of this principle.

In Greek mythology and religion, the thiasus (Greek thiasos), was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus, often pictured as inebriated revelers. Many of the myths of Dionysus are connected with his arrival in the form of a procession.

Here’s Titian’s version:

Flora is a word in science, pictorial description and Greek myth.