Monday, December 1, 2008

Van Gogh Two Cypresses Saint-Remy

Van Gogh Two Cypresses Saint-RemyVan Gogh The White House at Night La maison blanche au nuitVan Gogh The Starry Night Saint-RémyVan Gogh The Harvest Arles
through a weedy bed. Then the ground began to fall rapidly, and the brook growing strong and noisy, flowed and leaped swiftly downhill. They were in a deep dim-lit gully over-arched by trees high above them.After stumbling along for some way along the stream, they came quite suddenly out of the gloom. As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high sleep bank, almost a cliff. At its feet was a wide space of grass and reeds; and in the was a warm and gentle breeze blowing softly in the valley, and the reeds were rustling, and the willow-boughs were creaking.‘Well, now I have at least some notion of where we are!’ said Merry. ‘We have come almost in the opposite direction to which we intended. This is the River Withywindle! I will go on and explore.’He passed out into the sunshine and disappeared into the long grasses. After a while he reappeareddistance could be glimpsed another bank almost as steep. A golden afternoon of late sunshine lay warm and drowsy upon the hidden land between. In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The air was thick with them, fluttering yellow from the branches; for there

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