Random beauty

The other night I was waiting for dinner to be ready and there wasn't really enough time to get started on any project that I did not want to be interrupted so I did a random Google search. I've done this before and have made some serendipitous finds.

I had just finished researching my post about Benazir Bhutto and was feeling a bit bummed out and needed an antidote for all that sleaze so I typed "beauty" into Google images and found these.

Autumn beauty:






















The house that was used in the movie, "American Beauty":















An antique wind-up toy called "Bathing Beauty":






















An illustration from an old book of "Beauty and the Beast":






















That's the sort of illustration that I grew up associating with the story of "Beauty and the Beast." This is the sugary Disney version:

















I don't know who did this painting. The site where I found it only said that the title is "Beauty Beckons":















I loved the whimsical wit of this painting by Lin Hellman titled "Beauty":
















The cover of an old book, "The Beauty of America":






















Beauty Bay in Idaho:

















A Buff Beauty rose. I have one of these in my garden:
















A painting by Charles Joshua Chaplin titled "Young Beauty":






















The site from which this photo came did not say who the photographer is. It's titled "Hawaiian Beauty":
















Sleeping Beauty Mountain in British Columbia:












Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burnes-Jones' "Sleeping Beauty":