Picking Alpine Flowers In Meadow

Snow-capped peaks rise behind a cluster of timber chalets, one flying a red and white flag from its balcony, while a green meadow rolls down toward the foreground thick with wildflowers. Cows wearing decorated collars graze among red and yellow blooms as a family in traditional dress kneels and bends to gather herbs and flowers into woven baskets. A young girl cradles a basket of purple blossoms, a man gathers armfuls of blue gentian, and a woman kneeling in the grass ties sprigs into a small bundle. Small birds perch on rocks and branches at the meadow's edge, and a butterfly drifts above the flowers. The chalets and mountains sit clearly in the distance behind the nearer slope. Each cluster of blooms and each basket forms its own small task within the wide, flower-covered field.