“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller

Walking to School Series No•4

“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.” -Yann Martel

12” square pastel on sanded paper

“A pear will never fall into a closed mouth.” – Italian proverb

That proverb is more poetic than “you won’t win the lottery if you never buy a ticket.”  Whatever your game is folks, put your neck out there.  You just might luck into a delicious mouthful of Pear!

6” square pastel on sanded paper

“The pear is the grandfather of the apple, its poor relation, a fallen aristocrat, the man-at-arms of our domains, which once, in our humid land, lived lonely and lordly, preserving the memory of its prestige by its haughty comportment.” – Francois Pierre de la Varenne

12” square pastel on sanded paper

“All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.” – Rebecca West

6×6 pastel on sanded paper

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I choose my pears carefully: based on their blush, hip curvature, and stem length and leaning.  Even when I don’t paint them, I love to appreciate their beauty, on my counter, until the small window of time when they are perfectly ripe and should be enjoyed: room temperature, eaten with a spoon.

6”x6” pastel on sanded paper

“It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption.” – Edward Bunyard, ‘The Anatomy of Dessert’

6”x6” pastel on sanded paper

“A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!” – Abraham Lincoln