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Today's Calvin and Hobbes, December 08, 2024

Good Day! Haymaking in Sussex by Edward Wilkins Waite (1854 - 1924) Oil on Canvas (Currently for sale)

Blackberry Gathering by Elizabeth Adela Forbes c 1912 Oil on Canvas (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) Elizabeth was the wife of Stanhope. As you can see she also had considerable talent. She also used triangles in her compositions.

Sometimes, you’ve got to dig deep—literally. 🦴 #CalvinAndHobbes #Persistence

Shepherds on Tåtøy by Erik Werenskiold 1883 Oil on Canvas (National Gallery, Norway)

In 1994, these remarkable drawings of horses and other animals were among hundreds discovered on the walls of a cave now known as the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, in southeastern France, now a World Heritage site. The drawings have been dated as being about 30,000 years old

Celebrating today my grandfather's geologist brother Matti Edvard Laitala (1924-2009) who was born 100 years ago at Kalajoki, Finland, on Dec 08, 1924. #familyhistory #centenary #geology www.geologinenseura.fi/sites/geolog...

Good Day! Meadow (La Prairie) by Alfred Sisley 1875 Oil on Canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)

Rockhounding in Gotland, Sweden. We made a few trips there, this time with my youngest aunt. Lots of historic villages, old churches, rare plants, great beaches and coastal formations. Gotland's fossiliferous beaches piqued my early interest in historical geology. About 1988 or 1989.

Seaside Cottages with Dovecote (from Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland) by Edward Arthur Walton c. 1900 Oil on Canvas (Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland)

"Say Bluesky!" #firstpost Photo: Mescal Range, Nevada, USA, September 2006. (Parts of the Mountain Pass carbonatite complex can be seen along the next range)

Sierra Nevada by John Singer Sargent 1912 Oil on Canvas (National Museum of Cardiff, Wales)

From over 100 years ago, two photographs of painters on riverbanks created by Lumière Bros' Autochrome process ~ it automatically produced dream-like, light-filled colour images without artificial colourising, & was the main colour photography process used before 1930s (Courtellemont/Personnaz)

Not a Lumiere autochrome from the early 1900's but three of my younger cousins exploring backyard wilderness, maybe summer 1991. Photo reproduced from my family archives.

Good Day! Northamptonshire Summer by John Lines (Private Collection)

Grandfather holding one of my younger cousins, probably 1990.

The Trent Valley by Sir John Alfred Arnesby Brown RA 1932 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

My grandfather practically also served as my father too. After getting widowed in 1981 (losing his wife to a brain tumour) he had much time for me and his daughters' families, taking the role of social, always available and dedicated "pater familias" when retiring in 1992. (This photo taken 2010).

Good Day! Sycamore in Autumn, Orange County Park by Edgar Payne (1883—1947)

US impressionist artist Daniel Garber captures another view from the banks of the Delaware River (Vine-clad Trees, 1916) Detroit Institute of Arts

The River Lys at Astene (the Thistles) by Emile Claus 1885 Oil on Canvas (Groeninge Museum, Bruges)

On the seafront, Littlehampton by Margaret Green (1925 – 2003) I love this artist. A new discovery for me.

Illegally parked somewhere in Greece. The sign says "No parking", so I'm obviously happily waiting to be towed away, maybe to the beach. Seems like my first trip abroad, 1978.

Newlyn, Cornwall (Trewarveneth Street)by Stanhope Forbes (1857-1947) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

A Windmill in Montmartre by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot 1840-45 Oil and Canvas on Paper (Musée d'Art et d'Histoire)

Early Eastern Europe: with the start of the #EuropeanMesolithic, regional cultural variations began to appear, especially in #EasternEurope, around the northern & western #BlackSea. www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEur... #history #historyfiles #mesolithic #archaeology #ancientworld #ancienteurope

Good Day! Breakfast Time by Hanna Hirsch-Pauli 1887 Oil on Canvas (Nationalmuseum - National Gallery of Sweden)

From our archive ~ over 100 years ago, pioneering woman photographer GA (Emma) Barton used Lumière Bros’ new autochrome colour process to create this astonishing colour photograph of a young woman in garden with flowers, fruit & assorted gnomes (1919)

Spring in a Riviera Garden by Sir John Lavery RA 1921 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

Well fed and probably the fattest I've ever been. Here sitting regally like the Finnish general C.G.E. Mannerheim in the back of my loyal pony (can't remember his name). About 1978 in Vantaa, southern Finland.

Good Day! Summer Morning - View from the Artist's House at 19 Queensland Avenue, London SW19 by Harry Bush 1953 Oil on Canvas (For sale with Liss Llewellyn)

Smithfield 1 (St Bart’s) by Michael Alford (born 1958) Oil on Panel (Private Collection)

The four sisters in Suomenlinna (Sveaborg), the historic sea fortress in Helsinki, about 1963 or 1964. My uncle (1962-1986) is missing from this picture as he was probably a toddler. The three younger sisters were born in Hailuoto, a large island community near Oulu.

Good Day! The Cottage Garden by George Spencer Watson 1928 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

Coastal Scene by Benjamin Williams Leader 1889 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

Here's my grandfather as a recently ordained theologian in the early 1950's with my grandmother (1927-1981) at the Oulu railway station. My grandfather held several posts as a parish priest in Pohjanmaa (Ostrobothnia) before relocating with his growing family to Vantaa, southern Finland.

Windsor by Arthur Streeton 1904 Oil on Canvas (National Gallery of Victoria)

Introducing my maternal grandfather (1927-2010), here with a fine specimen of Bubo bubo (eagle owl). The students have graduated from high school in Oulainen, Finland. Postwar moods in the spring 1945 (or 1946) are evidenced by somewhat dark humour on the chalkboard.

Good Day! Tuscan Light by Joseph Paquet 2023 (Private Collection)

From Hornets to F-35: Finnish Air Force Commander Charts Finland's Defense Evolution The Commander of the FiAF, provides some interesting insights into the progress of the F-35 program and outlines the goals for its upcoming integration. Story: theaviationist.com/2024/12/02/f...

Here’s the 18C library at St Florian Monastery, Austria, home for over 130.000 volumes and manuscripts. Its ceiling fresco, by Bartolomeo Altomonte (figures) & Antonio Tassi (architecture), celebrates the marriage of virtue & science

Follow John Singer Sargent on his trip to sunny Corfu in 1909 ~ here are his watercolours ‘A Terrace’ ■ ‘Lights and Shadows’

Footbridge in Venice by Helen McNicoll, c. 1910 Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

This one from the #PSB is pretty good too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0MT...

Mansion in the Afternoon by Henri Le Sidaner 1862-1939 Oil on Canvas

Shipmate ready to take the city of Monaco. Standing on a pile of cannon balls at the visitor roof deck of 'Musee Oceanographique de Monaco'. The same Interrail trip, summer 1989.

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