Friday we had our first snow. It did not amount to much.

Nothing like the snowstorms down East. When I

crossed the parking lot for coffee the usual gang

was there.

It might be my recent exposure to all the paintings in DC

but I saw our White-tailed Jackrabbits as characters in

paintings. These two shots made me think of Japanese

nature paintings of the EDO period.

I am sure this one knew Albrecht Dürer.

Our Mountain Ash are stubbornly holding on to their leaves.

They provide a really beautiful shot of colour for the city.

The snow has stopped and the sky is blue.

" God how we doubt the flames of our beauty!

now grow in the burning and demanding city

seeds of our excellence, reasons for phoenixes,

rake ash from our bodies for a new anatomy!"

                                           Magic Animals

                                                 Gwendolyn MacEwen

                                              

As  I mentioned earlier this week we just spent two

weeks in Ontario and Washington DC. So we

spent a lot of time in museums and galleries.

One place I wanted to visit was the National

Museum of American Art as I especially wanted

to see works by Thomas Hart Benton and

the Hudson River School however we were

not expecting the beautiful exhibit of folk art.

My wife did find the comment in the visitor

book that " Some of this stuff looks like any one

could have made it " amusing. I though a lot of it

was beyond my skill, patience and imagination.

Rather than ending with a quote from a poem

I thought I would end with a quote posted in the

museum.