Oh My! Pumpkins Are In The Stores! .

Every autumn, when the pumpkins appear in the stores, I remember my favourite acrylic painting of my daughter (when she was quite little) hugging the pumpkin that she had just carved.

This makes me smile every time I look at it and I hope it makes you smile too!

My Little Pumpkin (6 x 6 acrylic)
Based on a photograph of my daughter (Dowling, Ontario)
on flickr 

Plein Air Painting - "Roots"

I called this painting "Roots" (11x14 acrylic on hardboard)

"SABBATHS 1986 I

Wendell Berry

from A Timbered Choir


Slowly, slowly they return
To the small woodland let alone;
Great trees, outspreading and upright,
Apostles of the living light.

Patient as stars, they build in air
Tier after tier a timbered choir,
Stout beams upholding weightless grace
Of song, a blessing on this place.

They stand in waiting all around,
Uprisings of their native ground,
Downcomings of the distant light;
They are the advent they await.

Receiving sun and giving shade,
Their life's a benediction made,
And is a benediction said
Over the living and the dead.

In fall their brightened leaves, released,
Fly down the wind, and we are pleased
Top walk on radiance, amazed.
O light come down to earth, be praised!