Long Shadows on Longmire Road

"Long Shadows on Longmire Road" 16x20" Oil on stretched canvas

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 "Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us." —Jane Roberts

This stretch of Longmire Road, where I walk my dog in the early evenings, never ceases to stop me dead in my tracks. If you think I'm making this up, here's the photo I snapped on my phone. I admit I've taken a little artistic license in the painting and did push the colors a tad, but isn't it an enchanted spot?

This is a place where if you become very quiet and listen carefully you can hear deep within a melody of gratefulness begin to arise.

It's also at this mysterious and serene time of day, that two age-old antagonists—light and darkness—enter the arena for another showdown. Light grabs hold tight, while the determined opponent attacks in quick jabs, stabs, pulls and stretches. When little resistance is left, darkness delivers one final death defying blow that flattens into dark rivers and flat puddles of flickering shadow. Light, admitting defeat, lays lifeless until dawn.                                                                                            "In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved." —John of the Cross

       Thanks for coming along on my walk today.
       nancy  
       
       © 2013 nancy parsons

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SOLD -Sacred Heart Church

"Sacred Heart Catholic Church" 12x16" oil on gessobord

         "Home is where the heart is."—Pliny the Elder

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I thought I'd share a painting I am donating to Sacred Heart Church's "Annual Spring Festival" fundraising event next Sunday here in Conroe. 

I've been an active member of the parish since 1984. Over these years we were blessed by five pastors, and have seen families come and go as Sacred Heart has continued to grow by leaps and bounds. While it's wonderful we've totally overgrown this campus—serving near 5,000 families—and have broken ground for a larger church on the grounds, there is still something a little sad about trading in this cherished sanctuary for a newer model.  

My husband and I were married at Sacred Heart, we've had children baptized, attend school, take instructions and received the sacraments here, my mother sang in the choir for many, many years, and my father's Celebration of Life was shared inside its doors. Sacred Heart has been a big part of my family. 

I painted this to commemorate all the years of service to our community and to the thousands of lives that have been touched and impacted at its welcoming wide-open doors inviting all to worship. 

Thanks for letting me share.

nancy 

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Out On A Limb

"Out On A Limb" 8x10" oil on gessobord

Painting from a photo by photographer and avid hiker, Angela Fletcher.

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"Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take breath away."—George Strait

I didn't get to paint or post last week due to the graphic design work load along with an attack of annual oak pollen crud. But, I'm back in the saddle now...or at least have a paint brush in my hand again. 

I love the George Strait quote above. It was the answer to yesterday's Celebrity Cipher puzzle in our local newspaper. By my own admission, I am a Cipher, Jumble, Crossword addict. 

When it comes to choosing a landscape to paint, I literally can have the breath knocked right out of me when encountering beautiful scenery sitting in perfect light. It's then, stopped dead in my tracks, that I hear the signal telling me I have got to paint it. I may be out on a limb here, but maybe it's the other way around? Perhaps when a landscape grabs my eye and pulls so strongly at my heart strings, the scene is really choosing me out everybody else in the world, at that one moment in time, to paint its portrait? Hmm...What a honor and a joy to be an artist!

Thanks for pausing for a breath or two.

nancy 

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Touch of Spring

"Touch of Spring" 16x20" oil on stretched canvas

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"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

—Pedro Calderon de la Barca

 

This large 16x20" painting was taken from my friend Angela's photograph on a hike through the woods about a month ago. I always love that magical time of year when you first begin to see soft tender tufts of green emerging on bare branches high in the sky hinting at the promise of spring on the way.

e.e. cummings sums it up so perfectly, "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite, which is yes." 

Thanks for pausing with me for a moment to salute another spring.  nancy 

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