What timing! This morning I posted pix of the Japanese flowering apricot out front on the other blog (www.diamondposte.blogspot.com). This afternoon's mail brought a card from a Dutch postcrosser of Van Gogh's The flowering plum tree (after Hiroshige). It's the same tree, usually mistranslated in English as plum. The one out front still looks more like a shrub and has pink not white blossoms. Alas, neither painting nor photos capture their heady fragrance. Monday, April 20, 2009
van gogh after hiroshige
What timing! This morning I posted pix of the Japanese flowering apricot out front on the other blog (www.diamondposte.blogspot.com). This afternoon's mail brought a card from a Dutch postcrosser of Van Gogh's The flowering plum tree (after Hiroshige). It's the same tree, usually mistranslated in English as plum. The one out front still looks more like a shrub and has pink not white blossoms. Alas, neither painting nor photos capture their heady fragrance. 
