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From the introduction: “What was it about flower-painting that made it such a popular activity with Victorian women?” More than a thousand finished pieces over forty years’ time, often gathered with much tramping through the moors and muck, is evidence of something greater than a “genteel ladies’ pasttime.”
A Victorian flora: the flower paintings of Caroline May, 1991
“Who are you lookin’ for? Adorable little me?” Meet this southern pudu fawn — the world’s smallest deer species — born May 12 at the Queens Zoo in New York.
(Photo by Julie Larsen Maher, AP)