English speakers say "weeping willow" and picture the drooping branches. The shape. Nothing more. The French name, saule pleureur, doesn't let you off the hook. Pleurer means to cry. The tree is crying. That's the whole name. Monet painted it in 1918, his son at the front and artillery rumbling toward Giverny. His eyes were failing.
The tree cries. Monet cries behind it. And the red paint runs down with them.
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