#tree logs

[artemlegere]

Theocritus

Artist: Jean Charles Cazin (French, 1841–1901)

Date: 1885-1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Theocritus (born c. 300 BC, died after 260 BC) was a Greek poet from Sicily, Magna Graecia, and the creator of Ancient Greek pastoral poetry.

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The Last of the Chesnuts

Artist: N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)

Date: ca. 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, United States

Description

The chestnut blight was accidentally introduced to the United States about 1904. Letters N. C. Wyeth wrote as early as March 1912, document the effect the chestnut blight had on the trees on his property in Chadds Ford: "Our chestnut trees are bound to go! So say the tree experts. It makes me sick to think of it" (Betsy James Wyeth, ed., The Wyeths, The Letters of N. C. Wyeth, 1901-1945. Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 409)

[aisphotostuff]

Robin Perfection @ SE15 London by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: So beautiful everything perfect for a few minutes autumn sunlight and a beautiful little Chat..the UK Robin on old tree logs.

[zengardenphotos]

Meet the photographer

Brown's Creek Trailhead, NV

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[daisyprayers]

To keep us warm when the cold winds blow.

[spackhuggare]

Forest-bathing near Leopoldsteinersee in Austria. Photo taken by my husband.

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