On Our Wall (2)

Dave of Neco Dracones guessed it! Our other Van Gogh print is The Sunflowers (1888). We always have sunflowers in our garden and bring cuttings in our house throughout the late summer and into the fall. Sunflowers, as my wife puts it, "are just so happy!"

Coincidentally, this is why Van Gogh painted them. After a long depression, he and his friend, Gauguin moved into his Yellow House in Arles. His depression lifted and Van Gogh painted a series of four sunflower paintings, the one shown here (and on our wall) is his most famous.

It is nice to have sunflowers in the house all year long.

On Our Wall

We have two Van Gogh prints that have hung on our walls for the past six or seven years. This one is my favorite and seems apropos to my blog theme. It is called First Steps and pictures a man who was tending his garden pausing to receive his daughter as she takes her first steps. He stopped tending the garden, to tend to his family!

In the next few days, I will post more about the name and purpose of my blog.

I'll give a spacial shout out to any who remember or guess the other Van Gogh print on our wall.