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Friday, May 3, 2013

Gatherings for the Treasure Chest

This is the season when our senses expand and take in all the outward impressions Nature gives us.  Colors, sounds, smells, textures all lure us away from our inner life and into the wide expanse of the natural world.  Birds call, spring peepers pipe, the smell of freshly mowed grass mingles with dew, flower perfumes and the loamy odor of damp earth.  Thunderstorms flare, leaving in their wake scrubbed-clean air and plenty of worms for the chickens to find.  This is the season for gathering ideas, impressions, feelings and inspirations for later in the year when, for the artist, they can be turned into works of art.  There are wonderful mysteries and beautiful scenes evolving in every inch of the yard, the woods, the fields and the sky.

Persian tapestries?


Tiny jewels the fairies love.


And oh, those wonderful emerald carpets inviting one to dance on them.  What treasures will be happened upon tomorrow?  What paintings and collages will they inspire?  To be continued.....!