It was John Constable who said, ‘Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.’ And who would argue with John Constable?
I was having lunch in a garden, not my own, but the garden belonging to Penny who is in fact connected with the Constable Trust.
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| Photo by Caroline Gannon |
And I was sitting at table eating home made strawberry ice cream when suddenly a wisteria petal flew in and landed atop the ice cream on my spoon. It was a strange and perfect culinary moment. Not fabulously original but an example of how nature and culture come together in Constable Country.
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| Photo by Caroline Gannon |
Incidentally according to an article in Landscape Research, the year Constable died, 1837, was the year protein was identified, though Wikipedia puts it a year later. Well worth knowing.
This is a photograph of John Kendrew in more recent times with a model of myoglobin:
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