‘Tis the season for garden bounties. For those of us with gardens of our own, this means vegetables and fruits are coming out of our ears. For those of us without gardens, this means reaping the benefits of our friends-with-gardens’ over-supply problem. Yum.
This week, let’s write about the garden.
Joan Miró, Vegetable Garden and Donkey, 1918. Oil on canvas. Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Henri de Braekeleer, A Flemish Kitchen Garden: La Coupeuse de Choux, ca. 1864. Oil on canvas. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Gustav Klimt, Country Garden with Sunflowers, 1905–1006. Oil on canvas. Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria.
Three Things: Into the Woods Edition
As you might guess from some earlier posts, I like the woods. I like to disappear into them for hours. It’s best to not have an agenda: maybe hike around until you stumble across an interesting plant or insect, or
find a good hillside perch looking over a valley. Then you either move on or sit and listen to the trees creaking, the squirrels and chipmunks and wind rustling the leaves, the birds calling back and forth.
For those of us who can’t simply walk out the door and into the forest, here are three wooded spots to disappear into. Although I’d also recommend the real thing, next chance you get.
Rodolphe Bresdin, The Brook in the Woods, 1880. Etching. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Laura Bell, Blackford Forest, 2009. Photograph. www.lbellphoto.com
Gustav Klimt, Buchenwald I, 1902. Oil on canvas. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany.
Yes, that’s right, you read the headline correctly: chicken scene. Need more? Fear not: for this week’s Three Things, I have for you a setting (spooky 19th-century manor), protagonist (lovely bookworm), and specific scene (overflowing garden, with chickens).
The inspiration for such a combo? None other than my (yes-alright-Wren, our) mother: a Jane Eyre-loving, chicken-raising green thumb, who, on this very day, happens to be turning 29 (you’re welcome, Mom!).
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Autumn Morning, 1864. Oil on canvas.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Woman Reading in a Landscape, 1869. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gustav Klimt, Garden Path with Chickens, 1916. Oil on canvas. Destroyed by fire, 1945.