Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Corrected photo attribution; Perseid meteors tonight! fragrance too! Napoleon in Florida

I'll be out on the front deck tonight and tomorrow night looking for shooting stars (and enjoying the scent of Nicotiana alata):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/nyregion/where-to-watch-the-perseid-meteor-shower-in-the-new-york-area.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below

Here's the daytime view (photo by Mary O'Connor)


I wrote in my last post about Frederick Delius, who might have fathered a mulatto child in Florida. Another even more likely Floridian was Prince Joachim Murat (in uniform, next to his mother, Napoleon's sister)


nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte,  who lived on this plantation


and became the mayor of Tallahassee and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson




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