Wood engraving

Artist unknown.

19th Century landscape artist Hugh Bolton James 1848-1927

"Summer Landscape"

http://tinyurl.com/3q93x9h

Tranquil swimming pool

Hedgehog doormat

The doormat I just bought.

National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage

http://tinyurl.com/36t8he

A link to the history of the anti-suffrage movement.

Texas painter Kay Smith

"Christian's Koi"

Cultivating the beautiful koi fish is gaining popularity in the U.S. They grow up to 2 feet long and are very hearty. They survive in cold weather and they will learn to feed by hand.

http://www.kaysmith.artspan.com/

Picasso — study of a bull

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor

1881-1973

http://www.picasso.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso 

Spotted orchid

Etsy.com artist CocoRoo from San Francisco

"Funky Colorful Funny Face Mosaics 1"

 CocoRoo designs Oakland, California, 

http://tinyurl.com/3loehx6 

Etsy.com artist Catalin from Atlanta

"Great Vienna #40"

palette knife

Catalin, Atlanta, Georgia 

 http://tinyurl.com/3v2wk9k

 http://www.etsy.com/people/Catalin?ref=ls_profile

 

1930 landscape camera

"Ben Cooley with Camera near Superstition Mountains
RP Postcard ca 1930 ©vintagephoto.com 2010"

http://vintagephoto.com/reference/reference.html 

Swoosh Splash

American painter Jessie Willcox Smith 1863–1935

Collier's Weekly magazine cover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Willcox_Smith 

http://colliersmagazine.com/ 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%27s_Weekly 

Finnish painter Ferdinand von Wright 1822-1906

Summer Landscape

1877

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_von_Wright

Boston's Prince Hall and Black Freemasonry

Prince Hall (d. 1807) was the nation's first black activist, and throughout his life he petitioned Massachussets legislature for black rights. Hall's early years are sketchy, "but it is certain that by 1770 Prince Hall was a free, literate, black man living in Boston...and had served in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War."

Prince Hall and other educated free men in Boston founded the first black Freemason lodge called African Lodge No. 1 and named Hall their Grand Master. For a time its 35 members outnumbered the white Freemason lodge in Boston.

Hall's African Lodge No. 1 received its charter from the English Grand Lodge "and was thus entitled to all Masonic rights...without prejudice." By 2008, 41 out of the 51 mainstream U.S. Grand Lodges recognize Prince Hall Grand Lodges. Those that don't are in the South.

Hall is buried in an historic cemetery in Boston with other notable Colonials. Many free black men were buried without headstones, but Hall had one. In 1835, a permanent memorial was erected in his honor.

This man's life was very interesting. You should read it for yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hall_Freemasonry

"Tripping through his backyard"

A man in Salmon, Idaho who likes to wear a bunny suit in public was warned by police to stop wearing the suit or face public nuisance charges.

Police say the man, 34, was frightening children. A police report said residents were "greatly disturbed" by the man, but one resident came to his defense and said he's weird but harmless.

"He's got the bunny outfit, a cowboy suit and a ballerina dress but you don't see him except where he's tripping through his backyard," a neighbor said. "He's got a strange lifestyle at home but we all do weird things at home."

The Custer Car

Invented in Dayton, Ohio in 1920.

http://tinyurl.com/6q35au

Summer fun for a hot day

Two horses

Cosmos flowers

The butterfly