November's Print of the Month is of one of my favorite paintings. It is perhaps the best known of Gustav Caillebotte's works -- with good reason. As you can plainly see it is done on a rather grand scale. I was hoping that one of the viewers was carrying an umbrella that I could talk them into opening -- alas, museums are pretty skittish about umbrellas. Probably working from photographs taken by his brother, ol' Gustav painted this piece with three different vanishing poi

Didn't summer used to be longer? It seemed to me when I was a kid that summer lasted a very long time. No longer! I read somewhere that perceived time is sort of proportional to how long you have lived. When you are eight years old a three-month season is a significant fraction of your then-life. When you are eighty ...... not such a significant fraction. But fall is certainly here and I'm already grumbling about how dark it still is when I get out of bed. (Yes, I have