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Postcard Story – Bouquet of Sunflowers – Claude Monet – 1881 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437112 Oldest Daughter - 09/25/20 …and for her they were always evocative of life, of happiness, warmth, joy even, and of course with sunflowers, of the sun. She loves seeing those at the entrance to the small market where she shopped, brilliant...
Postcard Story – Landscape: The Parc Monceau – Claude Monet – 1876 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437107 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Second Granddaughter – 10/13/20 ... and with all of these family gatherings, there was only so much she could talk about, wanted to talk about, for she was not like her cousins,...
Postcard Story – Poplars, Eragny – Camille Pissarro – 1895 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437307 (In Public Domain) Oldest Daughter -10/09/20 …and she always wondered why she, one of her middle children would always wander off, at times, just by herself, leaving her own family and her aunts and uncles, and even grandparents, when they...
Postcard Story – Wheat Field With Cypresses – Vincent van Gogh – 1889 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535 (In Public Domain) Middle Daughter – 06/17/21 ...and then there was the van Gogh…the first view, and when…perhaps when he was twelve or thirteen, that stage of adolescence when everything is new, and much of what was new was exciting, the...
Postcard Stories –View of Toledo – El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) – Greek, 1540/41- 1614 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436575 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson –10/09/14 …and as Prince Treyton approached the town and the castle looming high upon the hill, dark and threatening clouds rode slowly across the sky sending lightening across the sky and thunder, deep and...
Postcard Stories –The Belles Heures of Jean De France, Duc De Berry – 1405-08/09 – Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg, Franco-Netherlandish, active in France, by 1399-1416 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Cloisters Collection
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470306 (Go to: Folio 233v. The Duke on a Journey) (In Public Domain) Oldest Grandson – 10/01/14 …and as the twelve year-old boy approached the castle with his father, he was beside himself with excitement as this was the first time he had come to the...
Postcard Stories – Washington Crossing the Delaware –Emanuel Leutze – 1851 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11417 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 08/20/14 …and, ha!...what do they know about bravery…and daring? No, even the little dogs know better and they scamper away and quietly hide and take cover until they hear that first ah…ahhhh! And so…well,...
Postcard Story – The Cup of Tea – Mary Cassatt – 1880-81 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10388 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Oldest Sister – 05/10/21 …ah, the cup of tea, ah, a time of communion with her own soul, even now with so many friends and some perhaps just pretend friends, but she would sit...