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August 2020

- Sunflower in the Field -

Of all my sunflower pictures, my friend Monika likes the 'Sunflower in the Field' best. "It's a really beautiful summer evening idyll," she once said to me, "it seems so calm and peaceful, I'm sure nobody disturbed you while painting." – "I wasn’t disturbed," I said, "I was standing all alone in a field with my watercolour box. But you know what, Monika: I had enough entertainment anyway. While I was painting, I suddenly noticed a movement on the ground out of the corner of my eye. On closer inspection I realised it: I was standing in the middle of a flock of scurrying field mice." – "Eeeeek," Monika immediately pulled her face in horror, "there were mice and you didn't run away?" – "No, what are you thinking!" I laughed because a picture came to my mind: once I had seen a cat that was leaping away from a gang of mice in long gallops. Now I saw myself racing away in the same fashion. "Not me," I casually added. "On the contrary! After the first shock I really enjoyed the situation. Just imagine: none of these shy mice had noticed that there was a human being in the brown leather boats. That was simply sensational. Now I could observe in peace and quiet what field mice do on warm summer evenings: they run, climb, drag straws, swing on plant stems, scratch their heads, are polite and let another mouse go ahead. At first, I felt a bit like 'Gulliver' in Lilliput. Then I thought about 'Thumbelina' and her experiences. The fable 'The City Mouse and the Country Mouse' also came to my mind. And finally, I discovered a real 'Frederick'. You know, Leo Lionnis' famous mouse poet. There was a field mouse with closed eyes sitting just off the track, his nose in the air, collecting sunbeams and words for the next long harsh winter." – "Not to forget the colours, Frederick also captured them," Monika helped me remember with amusement, "just like you in that beautiful sunflower picture."

My sunflower pictures. I really enjoy them in winter, when everything outside is grey and dark. And because in the picture with the sunflower in the field there is also a flock of little mice cavorting happily and invisibly, it is especially warming and amusing for me. For Monika too, by the way. Mice or not. For what would the world be without 'Fredericks'?

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