Summer's Echo Earrings Eye Artists and naturalists of the

Artists and naturalists of the nineteenth century

organic shapes

She carried test tubes of radium in her pockets

the way civilizations from Mesopotamia to the Modernists kept reaching for it as shorthand for something elemental

Summer's Echo Earrings Eye Artists and naturalists of theThere's a moment in late August when the light changes. Not dramatically not the way it does at sunset but quietly, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon. The gold gets softer. The shadows stretch a half inch longer. And everything you look at seems to carry the memory of the whole season in it, like the warmth is already turning into something you'll miss. That particular quality of light the kind that makes a field of wildflowers look like a