*sigh* Trying very hard to get back into the swing of things. Busy summer, and I need to pay more attention to my blog and website. ‘Christmas in July New Year’s Resolution’ here – I will post regularly even if it isn’t every day. Promise. Cross my heart.
- Cats, from _Quadrupeds_ by Mayne Reid (1818-1883), published before 1883. Illustrated by William Harvey. From Project Gutenberg e-books #23576.
This is an illustration from a fun book I found at Project Gutenberg, full of lovely illustrations of animals. The full title is Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where They Are Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys, by Mayne Reid (1818-1883). No date of publication is given, but since Reid died in 1883 I am assuming that the book was published before then. The illustrator was William Harvey.
I decided on cats because after I cleaned my sons’ room to the walls so we could put in bunk beds (I found 2 shoe boxes full of legos under their beds!); our cats have been playing crazily in the cleaned room and climbing all over the bunk beds. So cats were on my mind.
I know it’s silly, but well, I’m sometimes a very silly person. Be sure to click on the image to see it / download it full-sized.
Peace,
Bekka
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- Siberian tiger and cub (Panthera tigris altaica), Buffalo (NY) Zoo, 27 Feb 2008. Photographed by Dave Pape, released to public domain by creator. From Wikipedia Commons.
One of the things we hope to do on our vacation with my folks is go to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Now, we are specifically going so my younger son can see the giant pandas, but I always think of line from The Wizard of Oz: ‘Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!’
In addition, my eldest daughter just finished her 8th Grade year with honors (she made the Honor Roll all four grading periods this last year!), and her middle-school mascot was a tiger!
And finally, this is a magnificent picture that was ‘Picture of the Day’ a few days ago on Wikipedia Commons, and I thought it deserved to be shared with all of you as well. You can read all about Siberian tigers on Wikipedia if you wish.
So there are my three reasons for choosing this today! Wow! More reasons than usual! Click on the picture to see it / download it full-sized (which is rather large – you are warned!)
Bekka
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Okay, I’ve committed to sharing at least one new public domain image every day. But I suppose I will just have to give out ‘bonus’ images whenever I feel like sharing extra. And today I do, especially since I just used this image for a link to the blog! 
Tiger Tiger!
This comes from the Feb. 1894 St. Nicholas Magazine, a Victorian children’s magazine. It was an illustration for Kipling’s poem Tiger Tiger.
I think I originally got this from
Wiki Commons; but you can also get a
similar one from
Liam R E Quin’s From Old Books website, which is a wonderful source of public domain images and well worth supporting.Bekka
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