March 15, 2003One any cow would be happy to eat.---------------------
Based on the melting snow and amount of slush, it appears the Spring Thaw may be underway. Above, swans rest and preen at the mouth of the Au Train River. Below, a deer skampers down Perry Road during my morning walk.
New Slide Show!
March 2003 - Suicide Hill Ski Jumping - Ishpeming, MI -------------------- Quickly, then, he jumped to his feet and paced around his studio. He sat before his present canvas. It was a painting of a field of grass, with a road going through it and a haystack. The problem with this pleine aire style was that there was the devil of a lot of painting to do. Monet had been talking to him about painting ordinary things like haystacks, only he said he didn't know how to do it yet. He hoped Monet would be pleased when he showed him that it was possible even now to paint a haystack. It really did look like a haystack. It was a damned good haystack. One any cow would be happy to eat. He'd even put in some single blades of hay with a tiny brush and some kind of brown paint. Curtis White, from his novel The Idea of Home.
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