Family Planting Tulips In Field

Rows of tulips stretch toward the horizon in bands of red, yellow, pink, purple, and blue, cut by wooden fences and dotted with distant windmills. A stone farmhouse with a tiled roof sits at the edge of the field, smoke drifting from its chimney under a sky streaked with candy-colored clouds. In the foreground a young woman kneels on a plank path, tucking a purple bulb into the soil beside crates labeled with flower names, while a calico cat watches from the boards and an orange cat naps in a nearby basket. Further along the row, a man in overalls kneels with a trowel next to a wheelbarrow loaded with spring bulbs, and two more figures tend the pink and purple blooms beyond him. Songbirds perch on the fence posts among the tulips. The long straight furrows already lay the whole field out row by row, waiting to be pieced back together.