It’s official – this has been the darkest May on record. The least sun for this much May ever recorded.To think I was reading the weather news to escape the Election news…..A little more coffee seems in order.
![Van Gogh, Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit, May 1888. Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. Private collection.](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/van-gogh-coffeepot-earthenware-and-fruit-may-1888-oil-on-canvas-65-x-81-cm-private-collection.jpg?w=500)
Vincent Van Gogh – 1889 Nice coffee pot.
![Cezanne 1890 woman w coffeepot](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/cezanne-1890-woman-w-coffeepot.jpg?w=500)
Cezanne also had time for a little coffee – 1890
![Chardin coffeepot](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/chardin-coffeepot1.jpg?w=500)
Chardin – Glass of Water and a Coffeepot. This painting is at the Carnegie Museum of Art.c. 1761
![Renoir coffee-pot](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/renoir-coffee-pot.jpg?w=500)
Renoir also had time for coffee
![Toulousse Lautrec coffee-pot](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/toulousse-lautrec-coffee-pot.jpg?w=500)
Toulouse-LauTrec also had coffee time
![Matissefruit-and-coffee-pot](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/matissefruit-and-coffee-pot.jpg?w=500)
Matisse had fruit with his coffee.
![Pablo+Picasso+-+The+Blue+Coffee+Pot+(1944)+](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/pablopicasso-thebluecoffeepot1944.jpg?w=500)
Even Picasso had coffee.
![HopperAutomat](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/hopperautomat.jpg?w=500)
Automat – Edward Hopper
![coffee hopper](http://kathleenmwall.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/coffee-hopper.jpg?w=500)
Coffee – another Edward Hopper
And Mercury is in Transit….just a little more shade on the sun…..
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