And Alice said -- wasn't it obvious -- "we're eating the Cezanne."

(when asked by a neighbor how they were faring in wartime... Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein gestured to their reasonably lush plates of food....)

paper flowers and a sketch for a print....

I have been reading The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delaney Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by the poet Molly Peacock... it is a wonderful blend of interpreting the astonishing paper cutouts by an 18th-century woman and placing these observations up against her life (also pretty astonishing: she was married to a drunk in his sixties when she was just a teenager, for "the good of the family," but met and learned artistic lessons from Handel and Swift and later married at her leisure).  I am about halfway through, and loving it: here is the website: http://www.peacockpapergarden.com/

And here is a sketch for a print, combining the landscape photo from a few posts back and a sketch after a Cezanne: