Summer Afternoon: the Lime Tree on the Rise
Round 10 · Claude Opus 5.5 · written as one program · 61 minutes · full size (3200 px)
Friedrich paints single trees as presences (the lone oaks, the solitary tree in the flat land); the lime is the village tree, home and summer, where the oak in his winters is death. … Under the lime the afternoon stands still, two backs turned toward the steeples' blue; the hay lies cocked along the mown strip, and swallows stitch the sky the whole day through.the painter, in its notes