To kick off Day 1 of our Autochrome Advent Calendar, I transport you back 115 years to a beautiful icy scene from 1910, photographed by Antonin Personnaz.
It is original colour, not colourised.
Poor exiled Winnie the Pooh & his friends should be repatriated to their original home here in the High Weald! The stories are all set on Ashdown Forest.
#TIL Poinsettia are named for Joel Roberts Poinsett - the first US minister to Mexico - who brought the plant back from Taxco, Guerrero and popularized it. The records from his time in Mexico are part of the State Department holdings @USNatArchives