Pink and Red flowers…makes me crave an iced sugar cookie.
Painted Desert In Full Color
A dozen years ago today, at 7:01am I became a mother. I have had a very colorful life ever since! I love you Noah.
Lull’d in these flowers
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2.1.255-60)
-William Shakespeare
I was Puck in a “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in high school, it is surprising how much of the script is still in my head.
Golden Fields
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
-Henri Mattise
Sunset 7:46
A Texas Sunset
Marigold, to tangerine
a hint of lavender fade.
Bright orb center scene,
For no other would I trade
Lakeshore water calming
Slowly falling behind
Feeling all my wanting,
Worry’s string unwind.
Pure, Naked, Beauty.
Right before my eyes
Like a bright red ruby
Light slowly dies.
More blue to violet in the sky
Sparkling specks come to sight
As if to replace the orb’s supply
Flickering, shining, vast glitter light
Gone once more, but not for long
Tomorrow’s day another bright song.
-Mary Alice Sallman
Earth Laughter
“Earth laughs in flowers,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fog
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg. 1878–
Oaken Boughs
The Oak
Live thy Life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold;
Summer-rich
Then; and then
Autumn-changed
Soberer-hued
Gold again.
All his leaves
Fall’n at length,
Look, he stands,
Trunk and bough
Naked strength.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Autumn’s Orange
I think orange foliage compliments Pedernal the best.
RIo Grande
This is the Rio Grande near Taos, NM. It was a quiet overcast day. I painted this from a small color study and a photo (the photo was all grey, so I was thankful for the study).
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