"Green Leaves, Green Grass...of Home, 9 x 12 watercolor, 140 lb cold press paper |
Green everywhere. Driving the back roads on today's beautiful summer day, that's what you notice. Lush, alive, blooming, rain soaked.
Far different that our neighbors in drought-stricken western Oklahoma and West Texas, where the dominant color is brown. Life and death.
Thoughts of life's beauty combine with pondering death, so close to home and friend brought two songs to mind, about summer and home and mortality.
"The Green Leaves of Summer," and the "Green Grass of Summer...."
"The green leaves of summer are calling me home."
"It's good to touch the green, green grass of home."
Thus today's quick watercolor painting.