Enfant with lamb. Handpainted wooden bowl by artist Cindy Schlosser, Lancaster PA.
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Thank you – to readers and followers of Green News Update — for making this another great year. Since our startup in September 2012 we have posted 300 stories – and you have responded!
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Take a stroll through some places–and people — we’ve visited this year. (Click on the ancient olive in first photo.)
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- An ancient olive tree near the Pont du Gard, France. Click here to start the slide show.
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- The gardens of the sanitarium in St. Remy, France,where Vincent Van Gogh did his most prolific work (Roberta Faul-Zeitler CC 3.0)
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- Our ancestors 36,000 years ago used charcoal from wood to draw this horse in the Chauvet Cave, in the Ardeche region of France. Courtesy of the Chauvet Cave Museum
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- The ocher cliffs in Roussillon France (The Luberon) were the source of pigments used by artists like Rembrandt. The whole town is saturated with different ocher tones in the stucco walls. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Details from inside Cezanne’s atelier just outside Aix-en-Provence, France. It was Cezanne’s last studio, and most of the furnishings are intact. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Chocolates and candy displayed in Paris’s 9th arrondissement on the Blvd Montmartre. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- The quaint Hotel Chopin in the famed Passage Jouffroy. It is said that Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was conceived here while his parents stayed at the hotel. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- One of the best toy stores in Paris — or anywhere– in the Passage Jouffroy in Paris (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Paper pop-up of Paris’s famed Montmartre (Roberta Faul-Zeitler CC 3.0)
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- Peak of Mont Ventoux (in the French Vaucluse) is often foggy. The famed road to the peak is part of the annual Tour de France bicycle race. Its appearance is strictly moonscape. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Dreamy skies in the Luberon (France) near Roussillon. Beware the mistral, an orvery wind, that can crop up at any moment. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- A 19th-century wooden Christmas tree with ornaments made from baked cookie dough, a tradition at the Landis Valley Farm Museum in Lancaster PA. (Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Santa in his reading glasses. Handpainted wooden bowl by Lancaster PA artist Cindy Schlosser. Visit her facebook page to see hundreds of handpainted bowls she has created. https://www.facebook.com/galleryonmarket/
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- Bondage – a painting by Martinez in the standout exhibition, Art of the Mexican Revolution at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A sober reminder that while much has changed, millions of people still need to cast off their shackles and be free. (Courtesy of the PMA, photo by Roberta Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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- Happy New Year! Standing on the 2,000-year-old Pont Julien in France’s Luberon, built by the Romans and used by traffic until a few years ago! (H. Zeitler, CC 3.0)
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