(2010 painting reworked in 2013) The young woman was busy pulling weeds out of the garden. Her clothes were full and designed to fully protect the skin from the sun's mid-day rays... in contrast to the way we normally dress in the present era. The dirty chores also insured that clothes had to be hand washed almost daily. Her life would have been hard. Her day was spent working from sun-up to sun-down in the dust and the dirt.
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