Standing on the cusp of winter 2020, I thought back a year....back to a brilliant gold sunset sifting through spider webs of leafless trees, a living moment. Patches of crystal ice droplets touched and glittered on the branches. Mounds of far away snow appeared in the near distance.
Quickly I grabbed small canvas for an instant pocket painting~ 6" by 6." Pocket paintings are fun and portable, a take-with event. The small stretched canvas on wooden stretcher bars meant instant hanging on a wall, a frameless frame. Three simple pure colors and a small chisel brush. A moment captured in time. I can even remember the diamond dust of air born crystal ice flakes drifting about in the frigid still air outside.
In moments the light shifted and faded....gratitude for viewing the scene. Happy to have chased and captured a memory.
How have I changed? Or Have I?
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Emily Dickenson
"There is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods," Byron
"Friendship is a Sheltering Tree," Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Time it was oh what a time it was....long ago I held a photograph, preserve your memories...." Simon and Garfunkel
Bogger Search Key Words: Nature, Trees, Creativity, Poetry
Resources:
Pinkalicious, PBS kids cartoon, episode, The Painting Pixie, small paintings hidden in unexpected places, a Pixie grows her wings.
Music:
The Memory of Trees, Enya
Bookends album, Simon and Garfunkel, Bookends Theme
Dahlis Roy: Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner
Image: oil painting by Dahlis
Winter Glow, small pocket painting
