Pat and I went to the (air conditioned) National Gallery of Art. A pity that I need a visitor from out of town to discover how close I live to A Girl with a Watering-Can and a Girl with a Hoop.
Two favorites bring cool relief.
How are you keeping cool?
it was 103 degrees in augusta, ga today
ReplyDeletea girl with a watering-can hung in the home i grew up in on hartland street in hartford
it was the featured classic art of the week at the first national grocery store
my mother bought them all, a different one each week
it's how she decorated the walls of our home in the 60s. they came complete with plastic frames
she used to say the girl looked like my sister, linda. at least her hair did, anyway
some forty years later i came across the picture after my mother's suicide, when i was cleaning out her things
i held it, and stared at it, and remembered the art she used to buy to decorate our walls
now the picture hangs in our sunroom, on the wall that leaks when it rains (until we got the roof repaired). i couldn't bear to throw it out, a symbol of our mother's attempt to add beauty to our lives
so i sit and shed a tear for times gone by, for loves lost, and for efforts made by those who loved us
i thank you, diane, for sharing your thursday, and for the memory it brings to me
ton ami, alain
I used to have that snow in new york picture on my wall in richmond! And I love the Gaugin. Too bad Renoir has become such a cliche.
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