If there is a grassy patch, go for that.
But the grassy hill, a piece of the auld sod stripped of sentimentality but not of emotion, is also meant as a space for meditation: how could the greatest famine in nineteenth-century Europe have persisted in the back yard of the wealthiest empire in the world?
Le Grand Vent depicts nothing more remarkable than a piece of grassy wasteground, but Renoir's swift, allusive brushstrokes convey the density and texture of every hummock, as well as the glittering energy of the passing gust of wind.
There are, however, exceptions, including two pieces on the grassy area between the Museum of Sarajevo and the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, each by prominent Bosnian artists currently living overseas.
The artists have recreated in miniature a piece of Giverny with grassy artificial turf, live flowers, wall-covering photomurals of the garden, a pathway of off-white gravel and a little wooden bridge arching over a pond in which lily pads float.
In the pic, the 16-year-old wears a black two-piece and dark, oversized sunglasses while in a grassy backyard.
If there's something that makes you feel nostalgic about the thought of children building forts in the woods and running barefoot through grassy backyards, that could be because another piece of research has confirmed what many parents already know: kids don't get outside the way they used to.
After the tower was dismantled in 1984, the pieces were stored in a grassy, fenced area of the space center, where they have been rusting.
We explored the grassy terrace where there were a few pieces of stone, the remains of a wall, and some steps which might once have led to a tennis court or croquet lawn.
There, among objects that call up political factoids and fictional plotlines, is the black Secret Service Cadillac that drove behind Kennedy's vehicle when he was shot during a Dallas motorcade in 1963, the Checker taxi Oswald hailed shortly after, a piece of the fence from the grassy knoll and other items that Mr. Kennedy at one time held, wore and bled on.
