Give these another couple of weeks, and these will be startlingly yellow sunflowers against the blue wall at Cafe Fina. Lunch there was very welcome ... a respite from revising, rewriting, etc. Sunflowers aren't, I know, dandelions - but they are yellow ... I was procrastinating by looking in the Bridgeman Images collection for images that I almost certainly won't use (but in case of emergencies, it's good to know where one might be able to lay one's hands on something at the last minute), and found this exquisitely awful painting by the Swedish artist Sven Richard Bergh, The Knight and the Maiden (1897), which is simply too good not to share ...
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