

A Locally Sourced Picnic
“That must have been some picnic,” my friend commented, as we viewed the 19th century painting of French artist Edouard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe – The Luncheon on the Grass. It features a nude woman at a woodland luncheon with 2 fully dressed men. With her fair skin, and slightly plump, voluptuous figure, she is, perhaps, their fantasy picnic guest. We giggle, like preteens, at this risqué picnic, until I notice the provisions they have brought for their afternoon me