| Nature Was The Inspiration
Looking south from Further Lane in Amagansett across the farm field on Adelaide de Menil and Edmund Carpenter's 40-acre property, toward the undulating trunks of chokecherry trees, with their soft branch tops penciling the horizon, the only inkling of the Atlantic Ocean just over a gentle rise behind them is the watercolored blue of the sky. The grove of native chokecherries, underplanted with dainty white snowdrops and shooting stars, was left intact when the couple moved a number of historic houses near them, lending an elegant, archival air. Over the rise toward the beach is the Nature Conservancy's Atlantic Double Dunes Preserve, where 3,000 years ago ocean waves broke much farther inland than they do today, creating a rare geological feature: a line of secondary dunes that stands back from the primary dune on the ocean shore, and has become home to upland shorefront plants — hardy species that can weather the wind and salt.
Renoir's audacious flights into abstraction
LONDON: Historians of Western culture should look more closely at Impressionist art. It says a lot about the intellectual upheavals that tore apart European societies in the late 19th century. The admirable show "Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883" on view at the National Gallery until May 20 stakes out a metamorphosis that upset a long-established order. Two landscapes, one painted in 1865, "A Clearing in the Woods," and the other, "Country Road near Marlotte" done shortly after, bear witness to the beginnings of a fundamental change in perception. The view of the clearing that at first looks like a traditional naturalist landscape betrays, on closer inspection, a contradiction. While transcribing what the artist's eye sees without rearranging reality, it also displays a new disregard for the rendition of detail.
Tercentennial Memorial Work Poised To Begin
The memorial project that will essentially redecorate the Edmond Town Hall entranceway carries a message. "It's a celebration of 300 successful years as a community," he said. Newtown celebrated its tercentennial in 2005, and the memorial will be the coup de grce to the anniversary, he said. "This is the last piece." The redesigned area will be a permanent reminder. "[The tercentennial] was a time to bring the community together to celebrate and the memorial is to remember that," he said. The memorial, which will involve landscaping, new benches, and the focal point - a paver displaying the tercentennial logo - may be the last piece as Mr Cruson expressed, but Tercentennial Committee member Brigette Sorensen said, "It's not almost over." In fact, memorial work is about to begin.
Surging ADQ set to alter political landscape
RIVIÈRE-DU-LOUP, QUE. -- Mario Dumont appeared to unleash a political earthquake on Quebec last night by surging to an early lead in the province's hard-fought battle for office.Capitalizing on a strong appetite for change, Mr. Dumont's Action Démocratique du Québec was poised to sweep a large number of seats across Quebec. .
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