A July heat wave
No amount of sweet iced-tea
Cools rumpled feathers!
Art Prescription: Does everyone’s feathers seem rumpled? Or is it just HAWT out there?
Index card with watercolor and pen and ink:
haiku
Something Blue July 23, 2016
From red kayak bow
The lake stretches out deep blue
Big clouds float above.
Art Prescription: Just me and my first mate went “boating” today…kayaking. It was so fun and beautiful and peaceful. Nothing but us, blue skies, and a lake that went on forever. Bliss!
Index card with watercolor:
Quiet Gifts July 22, 2016
Surest way to hear
The soft strains of harmony
Is in the silence.
Art Prescription: My way to refuel from life’s demands is to go sit in a field with horses in pure silence. I listen to birds, cicadas, squirrels foraging, the horses snorting and chomping on grass. And in that big expanse, I realize how precious life is, how important it is to feed your soul. Everyone is different. For me quiet gifts fill me up, and I’m am so grateful for the simple.
Index card with watercolor:
Perspective July 21, 2016
Alone in the field
I feel small and listen for
Wisdom of horses.
Art Prescription: “Take it to the horses,” she said. Take it to the horses, and take a shower, and then think about life. Thank you Deborah!
I spent a couple of hours sketching en plein air today. Ink on index cards:
Partly Cloudy July 20, 2016
A cloud over-head
Certain it’s going to rain
Perhaps it will pass.
Art Prescription: Some people walk around their whole lives with a cloud over their head and wonder why it rains all the time. We are what we think, eat, live. Each day adds up and suddenly this is how we have lived our lives.
Index card with pen and ink, a card for you to color:
Tomato July 19, 2016
Perfect summer fruit
Just needs salt, pepper and bread!
Sandwich masterpiece.
Art Prescription: Nothing compares to a good tomato sandwich!
Index card with colored pencil:
Nectar July 18, 2016
Living is easy
Summertime and sweet nectar
Things with wings gather.
Art Prescription: Index card with colored pencil and watercolor…
Lavender July 17, 2016
Rain hits the tin roof
So hard I can’t hear your voice
I smell lavender.
Art Prescription: Summer brings the senses alive…
Index card with collage and pen and ink:
Panther July 16, 2016
Hunter wanna be
Slips out the door routinely
Inside panther cat.
Art Prescription: My two cats are content as they can be, inside lazing around. But not my third cat
Matisse!! Matisse howls incessantly to go outside, and he slips under my feet like a bolt of lightening when I go out the door, escaping into the big outdoors. He usually stops short of the driveway and dives into the grass. It’s a dilemma! I know I love outdoors, but safety comes first. I allow him to explore sometimes with me chasing behind him as if he were a toddler.
Index card and watercolor:
Moonlight July 14, 2016
Moonlight on the lake
The bog settles in for night
Soft, smooth, jazzy sound.
Art Prescription: The natural world soothes…
Index card with collage and pen:
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