They Wait For The Roses 2012

They'll sigh into the sky,
For those Spring rains cast a gloom,
To long and way into our wet June,
Summer you do not shine,
As that bright star should always be,
It is the clouds which are shameless,
We miss our suns glow,
All that is alive will know,
They dare mystify all the sweet birds below,
Adhere charcoal to this damp place,
Wild roses should make their way,
Blossoms so red, I cannot hardly bare,
For once upon a sunny day,
Bees which were never just a few,
The perfume of the abundant hues,
Now nootka rose buds wait for their cue,
Maybe we should all remember to forget the spell,
For that long play cries out,
They wait for the roses, tale.

Buttercup Meadows of Manning Park 2012

We just got back from a lovely day in Manning Park and I painted many lovely expressionistic oils of a meadow with thousands of buttercups in full bloom. There was lots of wildflowers in the other meadows and along the hillside but we just had a lunch at the picnic tables nearer to this particular meadow. I'm happy how these paintings looked and so spontaneous and I just squeezed the yellow tube of oil paint directly onto the canvas paper. It's so easy and convenient for quick compositions, rather then having to set up an easel and then anchor the stretch canvas with the wooden dowels. I've naturally enjoyed all the postings on my blog with those very detailed paintings done nearly thirty years ago. I still have dozens and dozens more of them, in that art style I did in those days. They'll all be published eventually and I located another folder of poems and prose I wrote years ago too.

I'm still looking at the other wet buttercup paintings which are still drying. One of them especially looks like many miniature suns and that we haven't seen much of on the West Coast lately. It's rained and was so cold and our garden is very green but no flowers yet. The bumblebees along the Southerly part of our property are feeding on and collecting the pollen from the dandelions today. And the sun has actually made an appearance today but more rain is forecast for this coming week.