Something beautiful: Oyster season

Fishing for Oysters at Cançale (a.k.a. En route pour la pêche), John Singer Sargent, 1878

We have a joke around New Orleans: our four seasons are not winter, spring, summer, and fall, but king cake, crawfish, snowballs, and oysters. Oyster season is my favorite. This painting by the portrait artist John Singer Sargent (of Madame X fame) hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. I love the wet sand and the reflective puddles and just the whole idea of setting out at low tide with your children and handwoven French baskets to fish for oysters. Read more about this painting here.

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