World Animal Day was started in 1931 by ecologists in Italy to raise awareness of endangered species, with the current emphasis on the welfare of animals around the world. October 4 was chosen as the feast day of Francis of Assisi who is the patron saint of animals, though the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2015
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My aunt was a nature photographer, and often emphasized the human element in her photos. Most of her hikes and travels were done with my uncle who would obligingly pose in her photos, most often in the foreground looking pensively off into her landscape. Perhaps it was a fashion of […]
There are not too many garden flowers that linger into October, but one of my favorites is wand flower. I planted this at my first home many years ago when I lived in central North Carolina, and have enjoyed it in many gardens since. In its native home in Mexico […]
The birth of impressionism had an unpromising start. The critic Louis Leroy coined the term impressionist in the title of his unflattering review of Monet’s painting ‘Impression, Sunrise’ which he concluded saying, “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.” Impressionism was partly a response to photography, […]