everything that I know...I know because I love.

I had been working on this card but couldn't finish it, that is until I watched the movie The Last Station, a film about Leo Tolstoy and his wife, and their tumultuous marriage.  The film opens with this quote, and what a beautiful quote it is, from his rather huge book War and Peace.  So I made two cards today, one for missing yesterday and one for today.

John James Audubon was more of an artist of pure genius than a writer, but he did compile many books about birds and other wildlife.  It always amazes me when I see his paintings, just the technical detail, the sheer perfection of them.  There are tiny little pictures at the top of the card that I spent a long time cutting out - there's one of Audubon, sitting sternly holding a shotgun.  A shotgun!  The two don't match if you ask me; how can you be a preserver of life through paintings and a hunter of life at the same time?  PS: I cut the shotgun out of his picture, I prefer to keep this a no gun zone!