A vist with the past

Being someone who loves twitter I have discovered a very interesting person! Someone who gives Tuesdays a little spice and encourages me to do what I loved as a child and as an adult... to pretend. I shall introduce this person in a bit but for now there is another thing that you must know about me and that is that I love the past I love the Victorian era. And given the chance to visit it in a time machine I would flip that switch in a hart beat. There would probably be more places in time that I would take a weekend jaunt to, but to see the clothes and the homes and to have a wonderful cup of tea with all the adornments of high tea in the country that invented it well.... lets go. Now yes, I know that most of my ideas are based on a totally romantic view of the era and put back in at time (one without proper public toilets) I probably could only stand it for a short time before I realized that the Internet was down and that even the good old boy from Verizon could not make the connection (incidentally I am with AT&T and have just gotten an iphone so I surely could not be away from precious (aka iphone) for very long at any rate) But I digress the person of whom inspired this little trip into time Dr. Wendell A. Howe .
So come if you will, for a bit of time digression, to seek out a fantastic artist as well as a visionary. Miss Beatrix Potter . The time that I will be visiting in her life will be in her 40's since we should be about the same age. She will have moved to her beloved country side and have already published several of her children's books. This fantastic country side is called the Lake District , located in Scotland. I am sure if I look hard enough I will see little Peter Rabbit scampering under the shrubs. In Beatrix Potters life she saw the need to preserve the "Country" way of life. She saw some of the lands that are now in trusted to the National Trust disappearing. Thanks to her you can visit this lovely country side in the Lake District with out a time machine. So here is to an Artist who's love of what she did enabled her to purchase and set aside this fantastic country side for us to see and be inspired also. Thank you.
For my visit today I will be going to look over her shoulder so to speak and watch a master at work. See how she uses her brush and admire her color pallet. I hope that during this trip she will indulge me in a reading of one of her beloved books. So much more than meets the eye in this fantastic person. But I will have to watch my self as women where not encouraged to be educated and in Beatrix Potter's case her own parents discouraged it and appointing her their housekeeper! She keep a journal that was in secret code from 15 to past 20 that was not decoded until 20 years past her death! I also want to hear of her thoughts on the symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae as she was respected as an expert mycologist, however in 1897 her paper on the germination of spores had to be presented to the Linnean Society by her Uncle Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, as wemon were barred from attending meetings. I must say here that they latter issued an apology to her. Even the Royal Society refused to publish technical papers she authored.
But I am sure I will be able to talk in confidence with her on these issues as well as our love for the Uncle Remus Stories. Stories that I recite on a regular basis to my children! It will be exciting to relate to someone my childhood memories of these inspirational tails. It was exciting to learn that she too smuggled in little animals to her home as so did I and my Mother. Visitors that touched our lives. Why I remember a set of baby squirrels that we raised that we could call up by scratching our hands on the tree bark. Oh and there was the possum that road to the post office in my Mother hair. Such times. I was so lucky to see a world that most others have to be taught to see and appreciate.
But I must leave now or I will not get to visit long since this only last for one day. I hope that if you did not know very much about this artist you now know that she was more than just that and that perhaps you will look into this life and be inspired. Thanks for dropping by!