Yesterday was a good day at the library, a patron came in and asked to borrow the cart to bring in some National Geographic she wanted to donate.  You know it is going to be a good haul when a cart is needed! Two trips and over one hundred magazines later, the library was the proud owner of Nat Geos from the early eighties onwards.  As the other librarians were rolling their eyes and getting the recycling bin ready, I was squirreling them away to go through once I had finished my morning’s work. I sat down in the meeting room for one and a half hours and went through each one looking for photographs and images to use in my art journals. I don’t tend to pull much from magazines but I found some great images in this little lot. This was part of a series of historic photos from small towns in Missouri. This is a portrait of Alice Liddell who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice. Taken in 1872. She looks …