Let us ride together, Blowing mane and hair, Careless of the weather, Miles ahead of care, Ring of hoof and snaffle, Swing of waist and hip, Trotting down the twisted road With the world let slip. Anonymous riding song.
Along for the ride:
Friday, February 13, 2009
Watercolors
Who can depict windy solitudes unchanged by time? Who shares gold-complexioned landscapes where Eternal-Summer resides? Renot's watercolors melt down the ingredients of a flower garden; alternating between forests hot as fire and evening-pale mists veiling long, dappled grasses.
The teacher next door to me at school is a watercolor artist who has an uncanny ability to put beauty on paper as well. It is a difficult medium to work with as mistakes just don't repair.
Renot is obviously a master. What lovely images, full of the life and love of nature.
If I were a tree, I would be a London Plane. I am gregarious but enjoy solitude. I am English in my heart and soul, but still have room for other nations. I have lived in six countries and picked up a French husband along the way. We have a wonderful, kind, strong-minded daughter who has become a "Human of whom to be proud". I am a magnet for the lost. I foster collies (and collie cousins and the occasional, accidental, cat or crow). Those I have saved have saved me in return. I notice the world around me and often talk to strangers. Traveling alone is interesting, liberating and fulfilling. I am good at most things that I undertake but have few formal qualifications. I am able to have and treasure friends with whom I disagree about almost everything. My life is not over. Who knows where I am headed?
A ponyism is one of Life's Truths perceived from the perspective of an Effing Pony: - Life's a Bluff! - Those who aspire to make their mark on this world must expect to scrape some skin on the walls of experience. - The greatest value of money is as the currency of Hope.
- To be an Ass or an Asset, that is the question?
-Selective memory is but the first step on the path to magical thinking.
-Not all Baggage comes with wheels. -When your hero is a horse you are less likely to be disappointed than were he a human.
-Unfortunately, great wealth does not always equate with class.
-A dick, surrounded by puppies, remains a dick. -What better antidote to evil than kittens? -Any time you have something heavy, ready to drop, your cat will sit right below and look up at you.
Il faut avouer, "The man can paint, ma chère. I never tire of seeing his take on reality.
ReplyDeleteBises,
There are reasons I keep him around. Have to remind myself from time to time.
ReplyDeleteThe teacher next door to me at school is a watercolor artist who has an uncanny ability to put beauty on paper as well. It is a difficult medium to work with as mistakes just don't repair.
ReplyDeleteRenot is obviously a master. What lovely images, full of the life and love of nature.
Thanks Jean, I will pass along your kind words.
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