Picture for Today: August

August brings the sheaves of corn,

Then the harvest home is borne.

--from "The Garden Year" (1834)

by Sara Coleridge

Little Boy Blue

Little boy blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;
But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack fast asleep.
Will you wake him? No, not I,
For if I do, he'll be sure to cry.

     --Anonymous nursery rhyme

Picture for Today

Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller

by John Singer Sargent

To view the painting above in a larger size and to read the information about the painting at the website of the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery, click here.

To read an article about American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), click here.

Picture for Today, with a Quotation from Charles Eliot Norton

Whatever your occupation may be

and however crowded your hours with affairs,

do not fail to secure at least

a few minutes every day

for refreshment of your inner life

with a bit of poetry.

Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908),

American author and educator