Rivers & Ponds

Jan Kudláček, Holčička a déšt, 1974, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

At long last, today it rained. It wasn't much, surely not enough for our scorched fields and forests,

 but just enough to lift our spirits and make everything cooler, fresher and greener. 

And Animalarium celebrates the day with a very watery post!

Feodor Rojankovsky, Ploof the wild duck, 1935,

via The Visual Telling of Stories

Dahlov Ipcar, Brown cow farm, 1959

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Alenushka's tales, 1986 via HannaRivka

T. Chursinovoy, Askania amazing country, thanks to polny_shkaf

Leo and Diane Dillon, The Secret River

Brian Wildsmith, The Little Wood Duck, 1972

Nikita Charushin, Let the birds sing, 1985, thanks to Book Graphics 

Anna Pugh, Mill pond

Harriet Russell, Kensington gardens 

Uemura Atsushi 

 Leo Lionni, Fish is fish, 1970, via Curio Books

Marie Mahler