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This little guy appeared briefly in the parking lot only to disappear back into the rain forest where he belongs. Mistico Arenal Hanging Bridges, La Fortuna, Costa Rica.
French cigarette card by Cigarettes Le Nil, no. 38. Photo: H. Manuel.
Recently I bought this little cigarette card (only 4 by 6 cm) and wondered if the Souricette on the picture could be the French actress Musidora (1889-1957). With her heavily kohled dark eyes, somewhat sinister make-up, pale skin and exotic wardrobes, she created an unforgettable vamp persona. She is best known for her role in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires (1915-1916) as Irma Vep, the voluptuous, amoral villainess, who wears the same black leotard, hood and tights as the pictured Souricette.
I googled Musidora and found images of her in the same style, but not this picture. Nor did I find an indication that her picture was used by Cigarettes Le Nil. So I asked two ladies for help. First I mailed with Marlene Pilaete of La Collectionneuse and asked her if this could be Musidora or a mere imitator. Marlene is a real Mrs. Sherlock who often helps me with little mysteries at European Film Star Postcards and corrects my errors. She replied me: "This cigarette card is a good find. Of course, I cannot be sure at 100% but I really think she’s Musidora. Her distinctive face is recognizable. I have among my vintage Musidora cards one on which she is exactly dressed the same way (but the pose is different). I even recognize her shoes. Musidora has been photographed several times by the Manuel studios, so this is a further clue. I don’t know why she is called 'Souricette' on this cigarette card. She is dressed here in her famous costume from Les vampires. It’s a typical outfit worn by the thieves operating in hotels. You certainly remember that in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, Cary Grant and Brigitte Auber also wear this kind of leotard. In French, those thieves are called 'souris d’hôtel'. 'Souricette' being a kind of diminutive form of 'souris', maybe that’s where the publishers got their idea."
I also contacted Dutch film historian Annette Förster, author of Women in Silent Cinema. Histories of Fame and Fate , which is selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles list 2017. Her book is a study on the comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the international silent cinema: Dutch stage and film actress Adriënne Solser, Canadian-born actress and filmmaker Nell Shipman, and Musidora. Annette wrote me: "I'm pretty sure that this is Musidora, not so much because of all similarities, but mainly because of the dog in the lower right corner: that is her own dog Lacsalé! He is also on other publicity photos of Musidora, such as those by Photogenie that she had sent to Cinéa (see my book on page 243). What a great find!"
Thank you, Marlène and Annette, and to Lacsalé!
A mentor, friend and all around wise man once said to me, "A ten minute walk will get you away from the crowds with interesting results." Like a lot of you, whenever I chase locally, I always try a lesser known location or two. It helps keep the creative spark afloat, and I mean, we've all seen the 'signature'' shots repeatedly, right? What do I have to lose? If it works, great...if not, no big deal. Conversely, what do I have to gain by copying a shot I saw on someone else's photostream? Zero. In short, it's worth the minimal effort. With that in mind, I noticed this spot on the Grafton and Upton Railroad several years ago that seems to be passed over in favor of the nearby Freedom St shot (which personally I've never liked, but that's just me). It was a matter of waiting for a good leader. Well, it all came together nicely on the morning of 10/31/24 as GU1 made an early run south with recently rebuilt, repainted and reactivated ex-GTW GP9R 1751 out front. I even managed to hide the garbage patched trailing units and get a few late fall colors that were hanging on. And since the location is now out on social media, I'm sure the usual imitators will follow. That's just the way it is.
Well it's the start of the season for such things as this which I like to attend. We had a nice couple of hours at National Trust's Calke Abbey. Vintage and Handmade Fair. Held in the Riding school, browsing through the arts, crafts and vintage stalls. Bought a few small items. Polished off with a hot chocolate drink :)
Have you still got any of these or remember having them?
The Instamatic is a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
During its heyday, the range was so ubiquitous that the Instamatic name is still frequently used (erroneously) to refer to any inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. (It is also frequently used incorrectly to describe Kodak's line of instant-picture cameras, the Kodamatic series.)
The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some Super 8-based home-cine cameras.
Today you can pick one up for under a fiver (£5)
White-faced Capuchin
The Panamanian White-faced Capuchin (Cebus imitator), also known as the Panamanian White-headed Capuchin or Central American White-faced Capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America, the white-faced capuchin is important to rainforest ecology for its role in dispersing seeds and pollen.
Among the best-known monkeys, the Panamanian White-faced Capuchin is recognized as the typical companion to the organ grinder. In recent years the species has become popular in American media, particularly in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. It is a highly intelligent monkey and has been trained to assist paraplegic persons. It is a medium-sized monkey, weighing up to 8 lb 10 oz. It is mostly black, but with a pink face and white on much of the front part of the body, giving it its common name. It has a distinctive prehensile tail that is often carried coiled up and is used to help support the monkey when it is feeding beneath a branch.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamanian_white-faced_capuchin
Two Bibio imitator flies make more flies on the leaf of my Photinia shrub. The plant was very popular with these flies. Happy Insect Hump Day! [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
This is is the style of Florian Nicolle.
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Mimic Poison Frog (Ranitomeya imitator) - Cordillera Escallera, Peru
If you like poison frogs you're in luck. because I plan to post an almost absurd amount of photos of this and other species that I encounter during my time in Peru. By now those of you that follow my photostream might know that I'm in Peru working with Ranitomeya imitator, a fantastic little frog. The first thing that surprised me about these frogs when I joined the lab was their size, they're truly tiny! Much smaller than the other species I have encountered in Central and South America. The other difference is that they're primarily arboreal, they really seem to try hard to avoid the ground and are most often seen hanging out on vegetation and often hopping around on vines and tree trunks, only rarely do I actually see them on the ground and its usually when I have disturbed them and they are fleeing. These frogs are also extremely skittish which combined with their small size and arboreal nature as well as their densely vegetated homes makes photography an (enjoyable) challenge. So despite seeing many of these nearly everyday, which in itself is an accomplishment as during my first few days here I had real difficulty finding them, times when I can get an actual photo set with these frogs are not that common. This individual was a fantastic frog that was rather placid when compared to its compatriots and actually allowed me to get a bit creative with its photos. Not one of my study frogs but a frog from an adjacent territory, based on the size I suspect this to be a female. Females are slightly larger and fatter than males but other than that they are completely similar in appearance. Hope you enjoy this photo, many more to come!
Marco d'Oggiono (Oggiono, c. 1470 - Milan, c. 1524) - Saint Sebastian (c. 1520) - oil on panel 60.9 x 28.1 cm. - Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan
La tavola, in buone condizioni di conservazione, raffigura San Sebastiano nel tradizionale momento del martirio con le frecce. La figura è addossata ad un albero, che si leva per tutta l’altezza del dipinto e crea uno stacco tra il suolo roccioso in primo piano e il paesaggio visto dall’alto. Il santo, collocato di tre quarti, ha caratteri fortemente leonardeschi, anche se Marco d’Oggiono non arriva alla complessità delle indagini anatomiche di Leonardo. Il volto, colto in profilo, ha un’espressione malinconica e tutta l’opera esprime, più che dramma, un delicato patetismo. La linea del paesaggio quasi monocromo, così come lo stile e le dimensioni della tavola, combaciano con quelle di un San Rocco conservato all’Accademia Carrara di Bergamo. I due dipinti dovevano costituire gli scomparti laterali di un piccolo trittico, la cui tavola centrale, perduta, rappresentava probabilmente una Madonna con il Bambino. Il d’Oggiono rivisitò spesso i temi del suo maestro, che qui viene citato nel paesaggio a perdita d’occhio, nel nudo quasi femminile, nel rilievo del panneggio e nello studio dei moti dell’animo. Tali motivi appaiono però semplificati, resi in maniera schematica; l’artista infatti, piuttosto che un innovatore, fu un imitatore, che seppe interpretare con ottimo successo professionale i gusti e le aspettative della propria clientela. Gli studiosi discordano sulla datazione dell’opera, collocata intorno al 1495 o verso il 1520. Quest’ultima ipotesi sembra preferibile non solo per ragioni stilistiche, ma anche iconografiche: l’accostamento di Sebastiano e Rocco, invocati contro la peste, suggerisce un collegamento con le epidemie che colpirono Milano in quegli anni.
The panel, in good condition, depicts Saint Sebastian in the traditional moment of martyrdom with arrows. The figure is leaning against a tree, which rises to the full height of the painting and creates a gap between the rocky ground in the foreground and the landscape seen from above. The saint, placed in three-quarter view, has strongly Leonardesque features, even if Marco d'Oggiono does not reach the complexity of Leonardo's anatomical investigations. The face, caught in profile, has a melancholic expression and the whole work expresses, rather than drama, a delicate patheticism. The line of the almost monochrome landscape, as well as the style and size of the panel, match those of a San Rocco preserved at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. The two paintings must have been the side panels of a small triptych, whose central panel, now lost, probably represented a Madonna and Child. D'Oggiono often revisited the themes of his master, who is mentioned here in the landscape as far as the eye can see, in the almost female nude, in the relief of the drapery and in the study of the motions of the soul. These motifs, however, appear simplified, rendered in a schematic manner; the artist, in fact, rather than an innovator, was an imitator, who was able to interpret with great professional success the tastes and expectations of his own clientele. Scholars disagree on the dating of the work, placed around 1495 or around 1520. The latter hypothesis seems preferable not only for stylistic reasons, but also for iconographic ones: the juxtaposition of Sebastiano and Rocco, invoked against the plague, suggests a connection with the epidemics that struck Milan in those years.
Detail of the stained glass window by Morris & Co filling a blocked doorway in the north-west corner cloisters at Gloucester. The window dates from 1924, long after the deaths of Morris & Burne Jones, though the latter's designs were adapted for the figures of SS Agnes & Dorothy below. The window is otherwise entirely the work of Burne-Jones's successor (and imitator) John Henry Dearle.
Gloucester Cathedral is one of England's finest churches, a masterpiece of medieval architecture consisting of a uniquely beautiful fusion of Norman Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic from the mid 14th century onwards. Until the Reformation this was merely Gloucester's Abbey of St Peter, under Henry VIII it became one of six former monastic churches to be promoted to cathedral status, thus saving the great church from the ravages of the Dissolution.
The most obviously Norman part is the nave, immediately apparent on entering the building with it's round arches and thick columns (the exterior is the result of Gothic remodelling). Much of the remainder of the building is substantially the Norman structure also, but almost entirely modified in the later Middle Ages inside and out, the result of the great revenue brought to the abbey by pilgrims to the tomb of the murdered King Edward II in the choir. It was this transformation of the Norman church that is credited with launching the late gothic Perpendicular style in England.
The gothic choir is a unique and spectacular work, the walls so heavily panelled as to suggest a huge stone cage (disguising the Norman arches behind) crowned by a glorious net-like vault adorned with numerous bosses (those over the Altar with superb figures of Christ and angels) whilst the east wall is entirely glazing in delicate stone tracery, and still preserving most of it's original 14th century stained glass. The soaring central tower, also richly panelled with delicate pinnacles, is another testament to the abbey's increasing wealth at this time.
The latest medieval additions to the church are equally glorious, the Lady Chapel is entered through the enormous east window and is itself a largely glazed structure, though the original glass has been reduced to a few fragments in the east window, the remainder now contains beautiful Arts & Crafts stained glass by Christopher and Veronica Whall.
The early 16th century cloisters to the north of the nave are some of the most beautiful anywhere, being completely covered by exquisite fan vaulting, with a separate lavatorium (washing room) attached to the north walk as a miniature version of the main passages.
There is much more of interest, from 14th century choir stalls with misericords to the comprehensive collection of tombs and monuments of various dates, including the elaborate tomb of Edward II and that of Robert Duke of Normandy, eldest son of William the Conqueror. The stained glass also represents all ages, from the 14th century to the striking contemporary windows by Tom Denny.
Further areas of the cathedral can be accessed at certain times, such as the Norman crypt under the choir and the triforium gallery above.
Sebastiano Lazzari (18th Century) - Trompe l'oeil
Active in Verona in the second half of the 18th century, Lazzari specialized in particular in the present kind of works, still lifes set against highly detailed wooden planks, otherwise known as 'finto asse'. Placed against the planks are various objects often seen in Lazzari's compositions: mathematical and architectural sketches, musical instruments, as well as paintings, red chalk figure drawings, repetitions of engravings. Lazzari's highly personalized approach to trompe l'oeil painting proved successful in the Veneto region, as demonstrated by the activities of his followers and imitators Francesco Bossi, Giovanni Battista Bertoldi and the artist known only by the monogram GF
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This is a female African swallowtail (Papilio dardanus, also known as the mocker swallowtail and flying handkerchief.
The "mocker swallowtail" name comes from the fact that the females of this species mimic other species of butterflies which birds find distateful. An impressive 14 different varieties are recognized. These are typically three general groups based on patterning: the hippocoon group, the cenea group, and the planemoides group - with this one belonging to hippocoon.
The perch the butterfly is resting on is one of the bars which the butterfly house glues the chysalides to so they can hatch properly so ms. Dardanus here has just crawled out of her chysalis after completing her metamorphosis and is in the process of waiting for her wings to harden enough for her to attempt her first flight.
The Buddha-Bar is a bar, restaurant, and hotel franchise created by restaurateur Raymond Vişan and DJ and interior designer Claude Challe, with its original location having opened in Paris, France in 1996. The Buddha Bar "soon became a reference among foreign yuppies and wealthy tourists visiting the city", and "has spawned numerous imitators" becoming popular in part because of the DJ's choice of eclectic, avant-garde music. It became known internationally for issuing popular compilations of lounge, chill-out music and world music, also under the Buddha Bar brand, released by George V Records. Locations have since been opened in a number of other countries, although not without controversy arising from the theme.
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With 2021 being another disrupted year, it wasn’t until November that we were able to visit an exhibition at last, at Compton Verney, where they were commemorating 300 years since the death of woodcarver Grinling Gibbons. Born in the Netherlands in 1648, he came to England in 1671 and was introduced to Christopher Wren. By 1693 had been given commissions by the royal family and had been appointed as a master carver. His ability to render lifelike flowers, fruit, birds and animals was astonishing, and he also created altarpieces and decorated panels for a number of grand houses. Called ‘Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making’, and fascinating though it was, there were not that many pieces by Gibbons himself. I suppose their fragility, combined with many being created for cathedrals, churches and grand buildings, makes them rather hard to move and put on display. That being the case, the exhibition was broadened to include Gibbons’s admirers and imitators, and last year a number of contemporary artists were commissioned to produce works related to his style.
This is the Kirtlington Panel, made from limewood between 1690 and 1700 for Sir Robert Dashwood for Northbrook House. The house has since been demolished, but fortunately this stunning piece has survived. It seems a tour de force, designed to illustrate his skill in depicting fruit, feathers, leaves and even a lobster and crab.
Oneto tomb at Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy (detail)
Oneto Tom (detail), 1882 by sculptor Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno 1837- Rome 1917)
This tomb was commissioned by Francesco Oneto, a rich merchant and President of the "Banca Generale". The angel, holding the trumpet of the Universal Judgment with its right hand, offers no consolatory gesture, but seems distant and imperturbable. The sensuality of this statue deeply shocked the contemporaries but enijoyed a greet success as well: it was replicated countless times, both by the artist himself and by his imitators; it can be found in various versions in many cemiteries in Italy, France, Germany, England and in North and South America.
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With 2021 being another disrupted year, it wasn’t until November that we were able to visit an exhibition at last, at Compton Verney, where they were commemorating 300 years since the death of woodcarver Grinling Gibbons. Born in the Netherlands in 1648, he came to England in 1671 and was introduced to Christopher Wren. By 1693 had been given commissions by the royal family and had been appointed as a master carver. His ability to render lifelike flowers, fruit, birds and animals was astonishing, and he also created altarpieces and decorated panels for a number of grand houses. Called ‘Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making’, and fascinating though it was, there were not that many pieces by Gibbons himself. I suppose their fragility, combined with many being created for cathedrals, churches and grand buildings, makes them rather hard to move and put on display. That being the case, the exhibition was broadened to include Gibbons’s admirers and imitators, and last year a number of contemporary artists were commissioned to produce works related to his style.
This is the Kirtlington Panel, made from limewood between 1690 and 1700 for Sir Robert Dashwood for Northbrook House. The house has since been demolished, but fortunately this stunning piece has survived.
A cebus imitator (white faced monkey) eating a piece of water melon in Manuel Antonio national park in Costa Rica
From Wikipedia:
The Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator), also known as the Panamanian white-headed capuchin or Central American white-faced capuchin, is a medium-sized New World monkey of the family Cebidae, subfamily Cebinae. Native to the forests of Central America, the white-faced capuchin is important to rainforest ecology for its role in dispersing seeds and pollen.
Among the best known monkeys, the Panamanian white-faced capuchin is recognized as the typical companion to the organ grinder. In recent years the species has become popular in American media, particularly in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. It is a highly intelligent monkey and has been trained to assist paraplegic persons. It is a medium-sized monkey, weighing up to 3.9 kg (8 lb 10 oz). It is mostly black, but with a pink face and white on much of the front part of the body, giving it its common name. It has a distinctive prehensile tail that is often carried coiled up and is used to help support the monkey when it is feeding beneath a branch.
In the wild, the Panamanian white-faced capuchin is versatile, living in many different types of forest, and eating many different types of food, including fruit, other plant material, invertebrates, and small vertebrates. It lives in troops that can exceed 20 animals and include both males and females. It is noted for its tool use, including rubbing plants over its body in an apparent use of herbal medicine, and also using tools as weapons and for getting to food. It is a long-lived monkey, with a maximum recorded age of over 54 years.
Panamanian white-faced capuchins are highly social, living in groups of 16 individuals on average, about three quarters of which are females. Groups consists of related females, immigrant males, and offspring. On average, females birth offspring every 27 months even though they mate throughout the year. Females tend to stay within their original group while males leave their natal group when they are 4 years old and change groups every 4 years after. Both male and female capuchins exhibit different dominance behaviors within the group.
Bee Beetle (Trichius zonatus, Trichius fasciatus) a really cool bumble bee-mimicking beetle.
Spotted the first ones of this season yesterday. Found in only a few places. They are very fond of (eating) blackberry flowers
Dutch: Penseelkever
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Maurice Tillet (1903 – August 4, 1954) was a French professional wrestler known as The French Angel who was a leading box office draw in the early 1940s and was recognized as world heavyweight champion by the American Wrestling Association run by Paul Bowser in Boston.
Born in France, he could speak 14 languages and was also a poet and actor. In his twenties, he developed acromegaly, a rare disease that causes bones to grow wildly and uncontrollably. Soon his whole body was disfigured as a result. Seeking a new identity to fit his disfigurement, Tillet moved to the United States where he made a living on his appearance by becoming a professional wrestler, and was dubbed as the "freak ogre of the ring". His villain persona ("the French Angel") was an instant success with the crowds, becoming one of the largest draws in professional wrestling and spawning a series of "Angel" imitators.
On August 1, 1944, The French Angel defeated Steve "Crusher" Casey for the Boston-based world championship. He became a recluse, although a few people did manage to befriend Tillet, including the businessman Patrick Kelly, whose home in Braintree, Massachusetts Tillet would often visit.
Tillet died in 1954 from heart disease at age 51.
In 1940 the first Starling was found laying eggs here in Iceland. That was in south-east Iceland. To day they can be found in every corner of the country. Because of their behavior, laying their eggs in houses and leave behind those fleas, they become very unpopular by people. I hope that has changed and I find them very beautiful and they are great imitators.
Manhunt
(1953-67, St. John Publications/Flying Eagle)
Contributors included: James M. Cain, Ed McBain, Evan Hunter , Mickey Spillane
Manhunt has come to be regarded by some as probably the most important outlet for "hard-boiled" fiction after Black Mask and Dime Detective. The excellent introduction to Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian's Hard-Boiled notes that the original Manhunt was launched with a January 1953 issue that featured a new serialized Mickey Spillane novel, and folded in 1967. It inspired a slew of imitators, including Flying Eagle's own Murder!, Verdict, Menace, and Mantrap, as well as efforts by other publishers, such as Pursuit and Trapped. There was even a "best-of-Manhunt" paperback collection published in 1958.
(Todd Mason)
One of the great imitators, young BH Cowbirds are identified as everything from House/Cassin's/Purple Finch to Bobolink and juv bluebirds. Photographed here at Golden Gate Canyon State Park
Manhunt
(1953-67, St. John Publications/Flying Eagle)
Contributors included: James M. Cain, Ed McBain, Evan Hunter , Mickey Spillane
Manhunt has come to be regarded by some as probably the most important outlet for "hard-boiled" fiction after Black Mask and Dime Detective. The excellent introduction to Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian's Hard-Boiled notes that the original Manhunt was launched with a January 1953 issue that featured a new serialized Mickey Spillane novel, and folded in 1967. It inspired a slew of imitators, including Flying Eagle's own Murder!, Verdict, Menace, and Mantrap, as well as efforts by other publishers, such as Pursuit and Trapped. There was even a "best-of-Manhunt" paperback collection published in 1958.
(Todd Mason)
Beautiful illustrations of various French cheeses as featured in Cook's Illustrated magazine/March & April 2007 issue. Here's to give you a little idea of what they are...
Bleu des Basques Brebis - is an artisan sheep’s milk blue cheese made in the Pyrenées mountains, a region of the French Basque country (near the border of Portugal.) These verdant hills here are full of the wildflowers and fresh grass that give the milk its complexity, subtlety, and lightness.
Crottin de Champcol - This is a simple pasteurized goat cheese from the Loire. (Did you know that "Crottin" in French means dung as in manure? The explanation is that old "Crottin" gets harder and browner and tends to look like horse dung or dung in general.)
Tome de Savoie - often made with skim milk after the cream has been used to make butter. It is a pleasant and unpretentious cheese with an approachable, mild flavor. This typical cheese from the Alps was originally made as a result to the lack of milk used for the Beaufort or other Gruyeres. They are produced in large flat wheels.
Valençay - named after a town in central France, it is shaped like a pyramid with the top cut off. Originally, the shape was perfectly pyramidal. Legend says...coming back from a calamitous campaign in Egypt, Napoléon stopped in Valençay. He saw the cheese and with anger took his sword to chop the top off. Valencay has a soft and delicate taste with nutty flavor.
Camembert - made from unpasteurized cow's milk, and is ripened by the moulds Penicillium candida and Penicillium camemberti for at least three weeks. Originating from the Normandy region, when fresh, it is quite crumbly and relatively hard, but it characteristically ripens and becomes more runny and strongly flavored as it ages.
Roquefort - a.k.a. the "king of cheeses" as many proclaim, Roquefort is at least one of the oldest and best known in the world. Roquefort has a creamy-rich texture and pungent, piquant, somewhat salty flavor. The name "Roquefort" is protected by law from imitators. For example, salad dressings made from blue cheese other than Roquefort cannot be labeled "Roquefort dressing."
Brie de Meaux - a nice white and sweet cheese with a slight greyish tinge under crusty white mould; very soft and savory with a hint of ammonia. The white mouldy skin is tasteless and edible.
Morbier - a semi-soft cows' milk cheese named after the small village of Morbier in Franche-Comté. It is ivory colored, soft and slightly elastic, and is immediately recognizable by the black layer of ashes separating it horizontally in the middle. It has a rind (skin) that is yellowish, moist, and leathery. The bottom layer consists of the morning milk and the upper layer is made of the evening milk.
Comte - a cooked and pressed cow's milk cheese, made only from the milk of the Montbeliard cow. It is the first French AOC (label of origin) cheese, guaranteeing the quality of the cheese. It is typically described as salty, mild, and fruity. Some cheese have strong hazelnut flavors, others have subtle hints of nutmeg. Paired well with either dry white or light red wines.
Epoisses (de Bourgogne) - a classic cow's milk cheese originating from Burgundy and has been made in the small town of Epoisses since the late 1700s. In order to develop the characteristic dark orange rind, this strong smelling cheese is washed with brine for several weeks then finished with wine or brandy. It's one of those stinky cheeses where its bark is worse than its bite.
St. Agur - a cow's milk cheese and fairly young, which yields a nice, smooth, creamy and mild flavor, something between a Gorgonzola and Roquefort (not as bold as an in-your-face Gorgonzola!) Perfect spread on pear or apple slices, or just on some French bread or raisin bread. Because of its creamy nature, it melts well in sauces or just on top of chops.
Belgium.
Antwerp National Zoo.
Antwerp Zoo (Dutch: ZOO Antwerpen) is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station. It is the oldest animal park in the country, and one of the oldest in the world, established on 21 July 1843.
Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa - Italy
Oneto Tom (detail), 1882 by sculptor Giulio Monteverde (Bistagno 1837- Rome 1917)
This tomb was commissioned by Francesco Oneto, a rich merchant and President of the "Banca Generale". The angel, holding the trumpet of the Universal Judgment with its right hand, offers no consolatory gesture, but seems distant and imperturbable. The sensuality of this statue deeply shocked the contemporaries but enijoyed a greet success as well: it was replicated countless times, both by the artist himself and by his imitators; it can be found in various versions in many cemiteries in Italy, France, Germany, England and in North and South America.
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