Wednesday, March 1, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - Christ & Satan 16C

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Simon Bening Prayer Book of Card Albrecht of Brandenburg Flemish (Bruges), c.1525-1530 Getty Ludwig IX 19, fol. 62v.  This Satan has rath...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - A Firm Christ & an Unrelenting Satan 12C

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Temptation of Christ - mosaic in Monreale Cathedral, Sicily (Building begun 1174) Modern Version of The Temptation of Christ Jesus was le...
Monday, February 27, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - Christ, Satan & a negotiating Angel 12C

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The Temptation of Christ by the Devil  first half 12C (possibly 1129–34) Spanish The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met tells us that t...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - Temple Temptation 15C

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Sandro Botticelli (Italian, c. 1481-1482), Three Temptations of Christ - Detail c. 1481. Vatican City, Sistine Chapel.  Here Satan stands ...
Friday, February 24, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - Christ & Satan 14C

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1385 Giovanni di Benedetto and collaborators  Missal  Italian (Milan), 1385-1390 BNF+Latin 747, fol. 305v “The Spirit drove Jesus out in...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

"Lent's Temptations" - Exhausted & Hungry Christ & Satan 12C

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1124+ Psalter of Christina of Markyate  English, St. Alban's, 1124-1145  Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, p. 33 (3) “The Spirit drove Jesu...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Earth's Creatures Watch Leaves Dancing on a Windy Day

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Earth's Creatures Watch Leaves Dancing on a Windy Day

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Sunday, September 25, 2022

Earth's Creatures Watch Leaves Dancing on a Windy Day

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Friday, September 23, 2022

Earth's Creatures Watch Leaves Dancing on a Windy Day

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Sunday, July 24, 2022

European Illuminated Manuscripts 6-16C - Plants, Gardens,& Landscapes

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Landscape with a Watermill, Image taken from Le Tresor des Histoires: a universal history from the Creation to the time of Pope Clement VI....
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Plants in Early American Gardens - Sea Lavender was Dried in the Fall 1793

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Sea Lavender (Statice) ( Limonium   latifolium ) Limonium latifolium bears clouds of delicate, lavender-blue flowers that are perfect for ar...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Plants in Early American Gardens - Globe Thistle

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    Globe Thistle ( Echinops ritro ) Globe Thistle ( Echinops ritro ) Globe Thistle, a Mediterranean plant long in cultivation throughout Eu...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Plants for Early American Gardens - Musk Geranium

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Musk Geranium ( Geranium macrorrhizum ) A European native, Geranium macrorrhizum can be used to scent perfumes and potpourris. In Bulgaria, ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Seeds with Stories: Flax (Linum usitatissimum)

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Old Salem Museums & Gardens tells us in its series Seeds with Stories: Flax (Linum usitatissimum) that Flax, one of the oldest cultiva...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

How Do We Know Mankind Is Made of "Starstuff?"

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The answer to this fundamental question of astrophysics was discovered in 1925 by Cecilia Payne (1900-1979) & explained in her Ph.D. the...

"We Are Made of Starstuff.”

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This landscape of “mountains” & “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region ca...
Friday, July 1, 2022

This Day in Medieval Garden Myth & Reality

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Angie Capozello of Medieval Gardens shares: The Duke of Berry's Richest Hours. Barthlemy of Eyck (?) And Jean Columbus Limbourg Brothers...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

This Day in Medieval Garden Myth & Reality

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Angie Capozello of Medieval Gardens shares: ENLUMINURES EUROPE - VIe - XVIe s. - ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EUROPE  June 30th is the 181st day ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

17C Portraits Head Outside as Mankind Becomes "the Interpreter of Nature"

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1694 Jan Weenix (1639-1719) Agneta Block & her family at their summer home Vijverhof or Flora Batavia, with her cultivated pineapple. I...

This Day in Medieval Garden Myth & Reality

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Angie Capozello of Medieval Gardens shares: ENLUMINURES EUROPE - VIe - XVIe s. - ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EUROPE The Harvest of CILIANDRA Jun...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

History Blooms at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

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Monticello's Peggy Cornett tells us that... On May 28, 1767 Jefferson observed "Snap-dragon" blooming at Shadwell, his childho...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Roe v. Wade - US Supreme Court Overturns One Landmark Decision with Another Landmark Decision

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This morning, as I was driving to my dog's vet, the radio announced that the United States Supreme Court overturned a nearly 50 year-old...

17C Myth of Pomona & Vertumnus - Love Isn't Always Easy, even for Roman Garden Gods!

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  Vertumnus & Pomona by Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689 - 1763) Pomona was the beautiful goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Rom...

Nature's Babies

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History Blooms at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia

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Peggy Cornett at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello tells us that In 1811 Thomas Jefferson recorded the planting of “Lathyrus odoratus. Sweet...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

17C Myth of Pomona & Vertumnus - Love Isn't Always Easy, even for Roman Garden Gods!

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Pomona Portrait of a lady as Goddess by  Jean Ranc (French, 1674 - 1735)  Pomona was the beautiful goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient ...

History Blooms at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Virginia

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Peggy Cornett at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello tells us that The hardy annual Larkspur, Consolida ajacis, re-seeds abundantly in the Mon...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

17C Gathering Fruits & Vegetables by Jean-Baptiste de Saive II (1597-c 1642)

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Jean-Baptiste de Saive II (Flemish artist, 1597-c 1642) An Allegory of Spring & Summer   at a Market Scene with a Boy offering Strawbe...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Father's Day!

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  Thank you for loving me & teaching me about the computer, even before there was a computer!  Miss you daily...