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On Big Top Candy Mountain

Ode to Joy

Ode to Joy Painting for Treasures of Pointe Coupee

Fragrant Fleur

Redwinged Black Bird

Our Lady of the Pond

Baby Owls in a Tree

Baby Owls in a Tree Waiting on Lunch from Momma n THE OWLS by Charles Baudelaire UNDER the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red eyes gleam. They meditate.Motionless thus they sit and dream Until that melancholy hour When, with the sun’s last fading […]

MOTHER EARTH, SISTER MOON

MIXED MEDIA, OIL ON CANVAS TO THE MOONArt thou pale for weariness      Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless       Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a Joyless eye      That finds no object worth its constancy? By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

SPLENDOR IN THE MOON

NEW MOON The new moon, of no importance lingers behind as the yellow sun glares and is gone beyond the sea’s edge; earth smokes blue; the new moon, in cool height above the blushes, brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses. By D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

When I am old, I shall wear purple

This painting was done when I turned sixty. My painting, drawings, and photographs always have something to do with my life experience, my journey.  I include the poem from which this painting emerged. When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall […]