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Whilst doing research for another painting (that’s still not finished) I found this amazing photo on the web It’s by José Antonio Yee, an otherwise obscure photographer. I stared, awe-struck, then picked up pen and canvas (by pure chance I had the perfect little square canvas that I had bought months before for an undeveloped […]
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Until the summer of this year, I knew Beatrix Potter only as a children’s book author: when I was young, my mother read me nearly all the “tale” books, from “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” to “The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse” – I loved every last one. That’s why last August, at the age of […]
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When I read this book, I didn’t even know of the existence of Mary Anning, which was pretty much the same thing that had happened when I read Chevalier’s previous novel, “Girl with a Pearl Earring“, before which I knew nothing about Vermeer. Here, the author showcases a remarkable duo, composed of the afore-mentioned Mary […]
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This month’s Naturalist is Mary Anning, a self-made palaeontologist born to a poor family in 1799 in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Her father sold fossils as an aside to his main activity, cabinet-making, and raised his children (two survived out of ten that were born), Joseph and Mary, on the shores of Lyme Regis, looking for […]
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A few weeks ago, during a weekend visit to Valencia, my boyfriend and I found a box next to a garbage bin with various things in it. I’d like to add that the things inside were clean, tidily arranged and some of them an absolute treasure. We took some of them (not all, unfortunately… my […]
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In 1789 Gilbert White, a prominent yet largely forgotten British naturalist, wrote “The Natural History of Selborne”. He wrote notes about everything around him including his tortoise, Timothy, who was later discovered to be a female. About three centuries later, Verlyn Klinkenborg, a North American author and newspaper editor, snuck into Timothy’s psyche and produced […]
I found a website for ideas. Ideas that have been thought of but that haven’t been transformed into reality yet. This seems like one of the best….especially for people who care about the environment, like us. Will you vote? I did.
A dead fish in Portugal
Ho trovato un sito per…idee. Idee pensate, ancora da trasformare in realtà. Questa mi è sembrata una delle più interessanti, specialmente per persone come noi che amano l’ambiente. Votate? Io l’ho fatto.
Earth, Wind and Daisies 