These are some more pictures from my indoor nature walk at Thanksgiving. The amaryllis, shown above, was new to visitors to the New World after Columbus made his journeys.

An article by Karl King, 2000, [ http://www.bulbnrose.org/Amaryllis/summary.htm ] has images that suggest George Ehret, a botanical artist of the 1700s, created the beautiful work above. King describes in detail some of the disagreements and understandable mistakes among the traveling botanists of the time, many of whom were cataloguing plants, insects, birds and mammals, everything new they could find. King also references some of the books published by these naturalist explorers, with the beautiful drawings that captivated the folks back home.

A photo of one of Ehret's botanical sketch journals can be found here: [ http://makingamark.blogspot.com/2011/02/georg-ehrets-sketchbooks-botanical.html ]