Claude Monet Argenteuil painting

Claude Monet Argenteuil paintingGustav Klimt The Tree of Life paintingGustav Klimt Expectation (gold foil) painting
get a mule through, we’re coming to, ain’t they Ralph?”
“Oh mercy,” his mother said.
“We are just raggin you,” he said. “They’re not all that bad. But all the same we better make time while we can.” And he sped up a little.
After another two or three miles Uncle Ralph said, “Now around this bend you run through a branch and you turn up sharp to the right,” and they ran through the branch and turned into a sandy woods road and his father went a little slower and a cool breeze flowed through them and his mother said how lovely this shade was after that terrible hot sun, wasn’t it, and all the older people murmured that it sure was, and almost immediately they broke out of the woods and ran through two miles of burned country with stumps and sometimes whole tree trunks sticking up out of it sharp and cruel, and blackberry and honeysuckle all over the place, and a hill and its shadow ahead. And when they came within the shadow of the hill, Uncle Ralph said in a low voice, “Now you get to the hill, start along the base of it to your