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What are your favorite flowers?

I've crossed the English Channel by boat (Dover-Calais). I really want to do the Irish Sea, but damned expensive. I'm also a civil aviation fan, so that for the most part I prefer air travel. Birmingham INTL to Dublin INTL is a lovely flight, as long as you avoid Ryanair.

I had Flahavan's Organic Irish Oats for breakfast.

My favourite flower is the hyacinth:

'You gave me Hyacinths first a year ago;
'They called me the hyacinth girl.'
- Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
Oed' und leer das Meer.

My favorite flower is the California poppy.

What do you consider the most attractive quality in another human being?

I don't know now maybe good brown hair.

Do you have Seasonal Affective Disorder and if so what type normal (Caused by lack of sunlight) or reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder (Caused by too much sunlight)?

To answer my own question no I don't.

I don't.

Are you hungry?

No, I just ate breakfast.

Same q. and what would you like to eat?

I am. I'm waiting on lunch.

I'd like a baked potato.
Or, pancakes.

Same q.

Nope, but I wouldn't say no to steak and chips with a good merlot.

What's your favourite Rubens painting?

Is this Rubens?

It's from Villette. Lucy views it in Brussels and I've always wondered who the artist is. It looks similar to Rubens.

same q

The woman is certainly Rubenesque

I like most of them.

What is your favorite Renoir painting?

Doges Palace. I'm not a big fan of Renoir.

Now I need to reread Villette immediately, but I don't have a copy here on my holiday. (Thanks, Prometheus!)

same q re: Renoir

It's definitely not a Rubens - it's too obviously erotic. Rubens was a great painter of the nude (the greatest, in my view, with the possible exception of Ingres), but always with the utmost decorum. The colours are also later and its manner is decidedly oriental, in a way that didn't become fashionable until the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. I'd say mid nineteenth century.

My favourite Rubens is the incorrectly named Le Chapeau de Paille, which was part of the reason for my visit to the National Gallery, already discussed, along with the rest of its impressive range of Rubenses and Vermeers which, in the event, were closed off for reasons I couldn't ascertain:


Here's my copy from the day:


I don't really know enough about Renoir to offer an opinion.

What's your favourite Vermeer (not many to choose from)?

The Girl With A Pearl Earring

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Which iconic photographs do you consider the greatest?

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Same question.

I'm partial to The Girl with a Pearl Earring. The composition / lighting is beautiful and she looks sweetly wistful.

same q

If we're back to Vermeer, I like his View of Delft. I am drawn to landscapes and cityscapes more than I am to human subjects, with some notable exceptions.

Do you like the Pre-Raphaelite painters? If so, what is your favorite work?