Artist via Ravenna

by Jennie Breeze

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Artist via Ravenna

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Jennie Breeze

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This photograph was taken while traveling on a bus through the Italian countryside of Tuscany(Toscana). Definitely a lucky capture, since it was taken at a distance while in motion. Seeing an artist with his easel & paints in a field of poppies was like a mirage. I may have been the only on the bus to have seen the artist....but I have the photograph to prove it! Poppies are a sun-loving intense blood-red. As if in an instant and by magic, they grow in almost any soil making the fields of poppies in the Tuscan landscape a very strong visual symbol, almost synonymous with Tuscan and all things Tuscan. According to myth the poppy was created by the Greek God of sleep, Somnus-in a period when Ceres, the goddess of grain, was apparently having trouble sleeping and was also searching desperately for her lost daughter. She clearly lacked the energy to make the corn to grow. Somnus, realizing the gravity of the situation, allegedly quickly brewed a concoction from the poppy and offered it to Ceres and, so legend has it... "Ceres was soon sleeping like a baby again!" and soon felt rested and relaxed in no time! Ceres suddenly found the energy and turned her attention once again to the corn fields which miraculously began to grow well. The poppy's appearance along field margins has stood as a strong symbol to the Greeks ever since-and its presence ensures abundant harvests in the fields. Tuscany is famous for its wines, including the well-known Chianti and it's red poppies.

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July 6th, 2013

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