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Mike Hall aka Michael Hall (British, b. 1960, based Calne, Wiltshire, England) - Open Door to the Garden, 2023, Paintings: Acrylic on Panel

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The Pirates of Penzance

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We report as the sun is bruising purple behind clouds. It takes us some days to realise it, but this August already feels like a summer's end. As always, we smell it in the air; subtle, but something colours it with deep, earthy tones. Today, there is melancholy in newborn light.

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Léon Bonvin’s Moonlight Scene, Houses In Background, 1864 (via here)     

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We report: along country paths, a lot of umbels have been going to seed early. In the dark and the fog, our expert is trying to figure out what is hogweed, and what is Queen Anne’s lace - crouched in the tall, sodden grass, their neck craned to examine the leaves and the stems.

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TRAITE DE LA CONNOISSANCE DES ANIMAUX [aka TREATISE ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF ANIMALS] (Paris: Pierre Ricolet, c.1650) Book designed by Antoine Ruette[?]

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it's good that the word "four" is "four" letters long

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The sound of cicadas and purple martins, dragonflies gliding above the water plus a photobombing butterfly: the essence of summer at the lake.

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Wilhelm Hempfing - Summer landscape on the Baltic Sea (1947)

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View of the Łazienki Palace in summer (Marcin Zaleski, 1838)

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Donato Creti

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Onegin update: IT IS DONE.

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Stanislav Zhukovsky - July night (1916)

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Walking the lake trail early July 4 years ago

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The Kansas Newspaper Union, Topeka, November 26, 1887

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The Bystander, England, July 20, 1921

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Jia Li (Chinese, b.1964), Summer Light, 2015, Watercolor on paper