Pining for you. Acrylic on canvas board 12 x 24in.
I love Pine trees! Tall, majestic, fragrant, healing -what's not to love. What's my favourite tree - All of them, but Pine trees hold a special fascination. Pinecones, pine pollen, pine needles -make a great tea which is said to be responsible for Canadians NOT getting scurvy during our long winter months, since -forever, taught to us by the Indigenous people no doubts. The Indigenous people used pine for many things including weaving into beautiful baskets. There are many pine in this forest and several I watch from my deck swaying in the wind, sometimes they appear to bend so far I'm amazed they don't all snap - the things we can learn from trees. I wonder sometimes a trees history - some trees are over 80 years here on the property! Imagine the things it's seen, the creatures it's known -the birds it's homed. Magnificent!
'Pining for you, obviously a play on words. A glorious tall Pine tree, full of love, fun and adventure & my continued pining for love' (who doesn't) in this case The Love of God & his son Jesus who I continue to pine for - forever, until my last breath is taken. Who/what do you pine for?
This painting took a while, mostly because my studio was a little crowded while my book case renovation was happening.
I was happily excited to get back at it and finish it, leaving the tiny creatures for last and a few leafy details. There is special paint reflecting on one side, only visible when standing in a specific light. I'm not sure where it will hang, it needs a big chunky wooden frame, for now it rests on a dresser and it makes me happy to look at it, I guess thats why I painted it!
Do what you love - created for the creator to say Thank you for another day - here to create!.
I read something that struck a cord with me, still contemplating it on this lovely Sunday morning:
We should Thank our Father for one thing; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with HIM.
One with every living thing, no exceptions. Creatures, plants, fungi... every living thing placed on this earth by God for us to be thankful & rejoice.
There need be no explanation for the many examples where we don't do this as we glance at on going war, struggles, famine - attempted assassination attempt on Trump (which I do not agree with) & chaos in general al over.. and I understand why it must be difficult for so many as they see family members blown up, babies.. innocent victims - hard to be thankful under such circumstances. I have given up wrestling with it all - I remind myself: God knows exactly where I am to be - God knows exactly where everyone is meant to be. It's all part of the lesson & perhaps the lesson is for some us to simply to be grateful. There are many who have much and are never grateful, some rejoice in others misery when they actually have no clue what life is like for others. I heard someone remark: Let them starve, about the hungry at the start of covid using food banks I pondered for a while and thought - that's coming from an SPOILED ASS who has never been hungry a day in his life. Fact. I was never starving but my mom raised me on her own from most of my childhood and there was a lot of peanut butter sandwiches & spaghetti dinners, for which we were thankful.
Today I don't feel blessed for 'what I have' -I feel blessed for my Faith in God. All the rest, is a bonus of which I am immensely grateful & God knows it, it radiates from my core every time I walk in the woods, take in the fresh air, look into one of my dogs loving eyes & sit down to paint (which I'm about to do)... thankful for a new day & the realization that we are one. I would never wish for a part of me to be hurt - would you? Understanding we are one, brings a new clarity.
Love makes no comparisons. Enjoy this day The lord has made... remember to say: Thank you.
below - me trying to take a photo without my shadow in it lol....
I love Pine trees! Tall, majestic, fragrant, healing -what's not to love. What's my favourite tree - All of them, but Pine trees hold a special fascination. Pinecones, pine pollen, pine needles -make a great tea which is said to be responsible for Canadians NOT getting scurvy during our long winter months, since -forever, taught to us by the Indigenous people no doubts. The Indigenous people used pine for many things including weaving into beautiful baskets. There are many pine in this forest and several I watch from my deck swaying in the wind, sometimes they appear to bend so far I'm amazed they don't all snap - the things we can learn from trees. I wonder sometimes a trees history - some trees are over 80 years here on the property! Imagine the things it's seen, the creatures it's known -the birds it's homed. Magnificent!
'Pining for you, obviously a play on words. A glorious tall Pine tree, full of love, fun and adventure & my continued pining for love' (who doesn't) in this case The Love of God & his son Jesus who I continue to pine for - forever, until my last breath is taken. Who/what do you pine for?
This painting took a while, mostly because my studio was a little crowded while my book case renovation was happening.
I was happily excited to get back at it and finish it, leaving the tiny creatures for last and a few leafy details. There is special paint reflecting on one side, only visible when standing in a specific light. I'm not sure where it will hang, it needs a big chunky wooden frame, for now it rests on a dresser and it makes me happy to look at it, I guess thats why I painted it!
Do what you love - created for the creator to say Thank you for another day - here to create!.
I read something that struck a cord with me, still contemplating it on this lovely Sunday morning:
We should Thank our Father for one thing; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with HIM.
One with every living thing, no exceptions. Creatures, plants, fungi... every living thing placed on this earth by God for us to be thankful & rejoice.
There need be no explanation for the many examples where we don't do this as we glance at on going war, struggles, famine - attempted assassination attempt on Trump (which I do not agree with) & chaos in general al over.. and I understand why it must be difficult for so many as they see family members blown up, babies.. innocent victims - hard to be thankful under such circumstances. I have given up wrestling with it all - I remind myself: God knows exactly where I am to be - God knows exactly where everyone is meant to be. It's all part of the lesson & perhaps the lesson is for some us to simply to be grateful. There are many who have much and are never grateful, some rejoice in others misery when they actually have no clue what life is like for others. I heard someone remark: Let them starve, about the hungry at the start of covid using food banks I pondered for a while and thought - that's coming from an SPOILED ASS who has never been hungry a day in his life. Fact. I was never starving but my mom raised me on her own from most of my childhood and there was a lot of peanut butter sandwiches & spaghetti dinners, for which we were thankful.
Today I don't feel blessed for 'what I have' -I feel blessed for my Faith in God. All the rest, is a bonus of which I am immensely grateful & God knows it, it radiates from my core every time I walk in the woods, take in the fresh air, look into one of my dogs loving eyes & sit down to paint (which I'm about to do)... thankful for a new day & the realization that we are one. I would never wish for a part of me to be hurt - would you? Understanding we are one, brings a new clarity.
Love makes no comparisons. Enjoy this day The lord has made... remember to say: Thank you.
below - me trying to take a photo without my shadow in it lol....
 Someone... was determined to get their shadow in my photo. lol |  No shadow. Pining for you. |
