All Owl needs is the moon, a kettle, some weird ideas about tea and sadness, and a cozy bed (which he must have rebuilt after “Strange Bumps”), and he can create a whole world.

The painting was made soon after the Battle of Britain. This is the artist’s own description of what he saw. 'The thing (the salvage dump) looked to me, suddenly, like a great inundating sea.

The painting, according to Cohn, was Caspar David Friedrich’s Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (c.1824). It is more likely to have been the earlier canvas, Two Men Contemplating the Moon ...

A barred owl descended down the chimney of an Arlington, Va. home, and made a perfectly seasonal perch atop a Christmas tree, an amazing photo shows. 3.