A country lass with blurred features sits in the green meadow by that silvery body of water, her square-necked, reddish-brown dress and plain brown straight hair parted down the middle as in days of yore. Serene, contemplative, and homely, she beholds the stork—an icon of female fertility this time—that is standing on one skinny leg just a few feet away without a worry in the whirled world. Granting credibility to the allegory, she holds a blue blanket in her lap in anticipation of the imminent baby. The blanket’s the same light blue of the distant sky. A somber, daring, unabashed sentimentality charms the mythical scene. (http://artseditor.com/site/domesticated-nature/) ...Seated Woman with a Stork by a Pond in a Landscape alludes to the myth [of Leda and the Swan] indirectly by using a stork instead (a symbol for new-born babies of course). The woman gazes affectionately at the bird, which is strutting, perhaps with... (http://www.academia.edu/2391276/The_Paradise_of_Albert_York)