Flowering Orchards his friend Émile Bernard he provided more detail: "Here is another orchard, rather simple as a composition: a white tree, a small green tree, a square patch of green, lilac soil, an orange roof, a large blue sky." The Van Gogh Museum's version of "Orchard in Blossom" was painted in April. Vincent asked Theo to "shave off" some of the impasto in this painting. Apparently he did not reline, a process of heavy pressure and heat to flatten the surface, because sharp edges of thick impasto remain on the painting. Van Gogh painted "View of Arles, Flowering Orchards" in spring
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth is also a snapshot of old-school aperitifs, such as kir, and illustrates how a modest kitchen can produce out world-class food. One of the more interesting aspects of the book is that de Groot was blind. The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth is a non-fiction food book by Roy Andries De Groot Published in 1973, the book is about the time de Groot spent at an inn called L'Auberge de l'Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Savoy region of France, and about the good meals he ate there. The book addresses the logic of