It's About Time : June 2019

Sunday, June 2, 2019

18C Allegory of Spring - Love & Bird Nests

1800 Spring by P Stampa published in London

This couple is in a garden with flowers in bloom & a cold frame on the right side. The man is picking a rose to add to the bunch he holds, while looking back at the woman, who carries a parasol. A boy shows passes a birds' nest to a little girl who holds out her apron. In the background are men in a hay-field.

About My Obsession with People & Plants

Initially ancient mankind tried to gain some control over the constantly changing & often threatening natural surroundings by creating spaces to meet basic needs for shelter, family, food, healing, & safety.

The prehistoric discovery that some plants harm & others heal led man to search for & eventually grow life-sustaining food & healing plants. At the same time, mankind created myths about people & plants & events it just did not understand.

A garden became a planned space set aside for the practical cultivation of edible & medicinal plants, and/or for the display of decorative plants + garden ornaments & architecture.

As centuries passed, many "elite" transformed the landscape near their personal living space into the latest "garden-art" hoping to project to passers-by a powerful image of themselves - their wealth, refinement, & overall importance.

In General...

I am usually searching for WHY mankind's society changes & what those living before us declare in their own words and in their images of themselves & of the world around them.

Posting on the worldwide internet makes history less intimidating, more easily accessible, & available for most living in free societies.

Traditional historians rely on man's written & drawn records to interpret past progress & myths. The artifacts & science of archaeologists dig deeper to teach us more about our relative recent centuries & the hundreds of thousand years preceding it.

Their growing science forms the basis of our knowledge of civilizations before written & drawn records, most of which seem to be in Africa, Europe, & Asia. We don't know much about ancient cultures here in North America, but we need to.

Focusing mostly on the history of mankind's relationship with plants & gardens, on the history of Native Americans, and on the history of women, I put together several blogs, different in the particulars but similar in the essentials. Many are listed in the blogroll below.

Honored to have you here. Welcome! -

Barbara Wells Sarudy

It's About Time

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Time for Sitting Outdoors with Flowers & Dogs

Friday, June 14, 2019

May-June by Italian Printmaker Alessandro Temini active 1650

Saturday, June 8, 2019

1630 The Air by Abraham Bosse (French, c 1602-04–1676)

Friday, June 7, 2019

Showing the bounty of - Earth by Abraham Bosse (French, c 1602/1604–1676)

Sunday, June 2, 2019

18C Allegory of Spring - Love & Bird Nests