Gardeners at Giverny claim that a shiny giant hand tool spent the day with Claude Monet discussing the play of light and shadow while swimming among an assortment of lily pads. While voices were raised over whether undertones should be painted with cadmium red or crimson red, there was solid agreement that yellow ochre tasted pretty bad and that paint thinner was bad for the environment but had to be used anyway, especially for spring flowers and butterflies.