Recently, in first light of dawn, my husband and I took a short excursion. Before leaving the house, I noticed the first frost coating the dark green grass carpet.
From the car window, I looked up to greet old friends, Sirius and Orion. Orion the Hunter and Canis Major, Wolf Dog companion, preparing to set in the velvet blue western sky still sprinkled with faint stars. Around the bend and to the east, we viewed Jupiter rising, veiled in mists of early pre dawn clouds. Ancient and modern, the myths and legends of our times...travel their celestial paths.
* "Like a Poem Written [painted] in Landscape"
Later, after darkness had vanished, the morning sun rose shrouded in mist . Sun brushed leaves turned into a bit into autumn with flames and spikes of color while other trees remained totally green. Some trees were multicolored, bits of green and gold or slashes of red and green. As I thought of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings, like the view of the French River Seine above, I felt warm and peaceful in the chilly morning.
Glancing around, candy pink fluffy cumulous clouds filled the horizon all around! Recent heavy rains made mirror like reflections like so many sheets of glass and light. Hues varied in streaks from pale greens and blues, to soft lavenders and pinks. Then I noticed the frost layer melting in the roadside grass and lawns. The muted light had picked up the frost as a pale white-green, like a layer of "meringue" icing floating on the brighter green grass below.
"Not of Earth," a checkerboard of space and color shifts appears.
What?
Several days of grey followed, an impact on mood and inspiration. All of a sudden today, the clear bright sun sparkled lifting the gray clouds and scooting them away.
"Just Like Magic"
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* Quote from Rick Steves Europe, PBS broadcasting, segment, North Wales, feisty and poetic.
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Images:
Headlights, photo by Rob
Orion, sketch by Dahlis
Claude Monet, view of the Seine River, painting by Impressionist Claude Monet
Chasing Shadows, Rob and Dahlis, ink sketch by Dahlis
