
The moon hangs over the Sol Duc River and warmly lit trees at this popular fishing spot along the river.
Vase of Flowers (details), 1722. Jan van Huysum

“You enter into the artificer’s chambers, and it is a pretty strange looking room. There’s a gnome with a long, long, long white beard, sitting behind a desk, and the desk has on it a book that is bigger than the gnome is. It’s a very, –it’s an enormous tome. Um, and behind him, is a large machine, with a huge glass tank on the top of it, containing a lot of smaller, spherical capsules inside.”