Getting in under the wire.
I really should get this blog in under the wire, since I have been intending to share some women’s month things for the last few weeks and whoa! Nellie, it’s already the 31st!
Besides some major spring cleaning after a somewhat laid-back cleaning pandemic schedule, I took a week and deep cleaned and took winter off the shelves and fireplace and put some rabbits and tulips around. I documented an amaryllis coming to bloom …
Spoiler alert: it bloomed. Gloriously.
and enjoyed the yellow and orange colors of spring.
I am in Carla Sonheim’s Yearlong Class, and falling behind rapidly, but I did do a whole bunch of one-liners in cats, rabbits, flowers in vases, elephants, and toilets.
And Carol, my good friend in life and art, made it over the mountain for our sort-of quarterly art camp together.
And I got vaccinated! Woo-hoo!
I’m adding three new Difference-Makers to the collection, women with interesting lives and contributions and a running theme of overcoming obstacles, often because of their womanhood.
Frieda Belinfante
Emilie Snethlage
Emilie spent most of her career in Brazilian Amazon documenting and describing Brazilian birds. Several species of birds were described by her first. Always interested in nature, even as a child, she decided to study natural history at the University of Berlin. However, in order for her to attend, she needed to be in class before everyone else and sit behind a folding screen, not to ask any questions during class and leave after everyone else. She was a zoological assistance at the Berlin Natural History Museum before departing for the Amazon.
You’ll enjoy this article of an all-women expedition to study birds.
Read the article here.
