User:Bratileena

On a previous posting, when I revisited the page, I was advised that the posting was out of date. I have a very interesting discovery about the book alluded to below, and after I verify this discovery, I will revisit this page and update it, also. But this basic information about the book has not changed, so I again offer my original posting unchanged until I can verify my new discovery pertaining to this book.

Yes, as I glimpsed the other day, when visiting the reviews page at Amazon dot com for my little book, "Understanding Foucault," an offering of Gene Stratton Porter's book, "Moths of the Limberlost" was on the very same page! It was on the very same page as the rave reviews for my little book on optical testing for reflector telescope mirrors. I cannot believe that this was a coincidence! I guess its okay, though. I just wonder how it came to be. In any case, it looks like I have stirred up interest in "Moths of the Limberlost" again, long after its first printing. I think that this is wonderful; so I am glad that I made that original edit on the pages of the Great Limberlost Swamp.Bratileena (talk)

The book, "Moths of the Limberlost" by Gene Stratton Porter, is available as a PDF document, free for noncommercial purposes through Google, and inasmuch as I already have this document in my ow15:15, 12 May 2012 (UTC)Bratileena (talk)n files, one may simply request this document using one of the email links on my enid cemetery "dot" org website. The document is complete with all illustrations. It is, in fact, a complete photo facsimile of an original volume of the published book. The PDF file is approximately 10 megabytes in size, and this is no problem for me to send as an attachment to an email (or receive; I received the complete document from a friend as an attachment, as I have a very fast broadband connection); if handling this file would be problem for anyone, I can easily establish a drop-box account for anyone to request a large file through.

I remember this book I read as a teenager; and even though the pictures were taken with primitive photographic gear, and later hand tinted, inasmuch as the color films available at that time (early twenties) were very experimental and "quirky", these pictures remain for me works of fine art. (I spent ten years as a professional photographer). These pictures are remarkable achievements by the author. A reading of the text will demonstrate that Ms. Stratton had an astonishingly comprehensive knowledge of the Moth side of "Lepidoptra"; the other side is butterflies, of course.

For those who do not know that all moths are not small drab colored and otherwise nondescript insects, they will be surprised to find out that actually many of our larger moths are more beautifull than any of our native butterflies.

To find this file from Google, be sure to put in the search terms rectangle, in addition to the title, the term "PDF"; or one may request this free file from me through my website: (I do not put an active link here; but nowadays, all you have to put in are the keywords in the URL address bar) the key words are: enidcemetery.org.

There are email links to me on every page of my beautiful cemetery website.Bratileena (talk)