Sunday, January 15, 2023

cotton


To the local flower shop to buy lots of flowers to cheer up the house - that is, Alice - who is leaving in the morning - wonderfully set me up with lots of cheerful blooms - tulips, and lilies, and freesias - all the things we can't have at home in Los Angeles because they're toxic to cats.  Actually, I find, freesias aren't poisonous to cats, but the others certainly are.  We did not buy cotton.  I mean - pretty though the little fluffy bolls may be, it seems a little ideologically over-determined when it comes to interior decoration.


Winslow Homer, The Cotton Pickers, 1876



 

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