Ah, Summer --- Days 14/169, 170, 171

Walks: Hood 

Distances: 3.75 miles daily

Vincent van Gogh, The Harvest, 1888, oil on canvas

This gorgeous capturing of a summer's day in the south of France by Vincent van Gogh may have been his favorite landscape of all.  He worked in the burning hot wheatfields as the harvest season was coming to an end.  It was an immensely productive time in which he completed ten paintings.  A heavy storm brought the harvest to an end, but, mercifully, not before this painting was complete.  When he finished it, he wrote his brother Theo "..the canvas absolutely kills all the rest."