It was painted in Argenteuil, where Monet lived between 1871 and 1878, depicts the artist's wife, Camille, reclined and reading amongst blooming flowers in an open meadow.

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She has also traded roses and other flowers and plans to open her own online retail stores.

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Some researchers, including Nancy Kedersha, a biologist at ImmunoGen (a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts) who was one of the discoverers of vaults, think they regularly switch from open (ie, flowers) to closed (ie, barrels).

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While flowers bloom at lower elevations, Sunshine stays open until late May.

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He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

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He breaks the herbs and the sorrel to open the flavors and passed around a few flowers from the plant to give the audience a sampling of its intense aroma before handing out drinks.

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All are furnished with antiques, oak panelling, tapestries, open fires and roll-top baths, and supplied with flowers, chocolates and complimentary champagne.

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