Today While the Blossoms Still Cling to the Vine
Outdoor Chapel
fingers strumming strings,
our voices skim cass pond. who
cares what the morrow
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3 x 3″; watercolor, ink, and colored pencil on paper
card #1 to caroline at camp
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• “Outdoor Chapel” is an homage to a Camp Takodah memory. Caroline is at camp right now, first summer as a leader and, though I am not at Takodah, I can smell the fresh air, hear wavelets of Cass Pond water lapping the shore, feel myself standing there 50+ years ago singing a folk song at a Sunday morning outdoor chapel service with my leader-in-training friends.
• I’ll Taste is in response to my having discovered Lorene Forkner on Instagram a few weeks ago and being entranced by her series of seeing-color-in-the-garden color-mixing swatches. Wanting to gain a bit of personal experience with watercolor, I think using her work as inspiration seems like a great way to explore.
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13 responses to “Today While the Blossoms Still Cling to the Vine”
Carol! Totally love this response! You’ve hit the heart of the matter in my undertaking this most ephemeral of art adventures! My card to Caroline went off to her at camp as a card, with no strawberry. I feel a bit of kinship with Andy Goldsworthy as I worked on this card (and other subsequent ones), making impermanent beauty, reveling in the process and the excitement of the making, not caring what the morrow shall bring : )
Thank you.
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Had to laugh when you said “Oh … it’s camp time again! And that means it’s cards to camp time again too!” because the cards-to-camp part of the equation really snuck up on me this year. It’s my usual practice to already have a card mailed and at camp waiting b/f Caroline arrives on opening day, but I TOTALLY missed the mark this year. Didn’t even realize I was missing it till after the mark. But lucky me to have Lorene’s inspiration for this year’s cards. It is just the juiciest approach to exploring some facets of watercolor.
Thanks for your encouragement and appreciation of card #1!
Oh! And the reference to one of our favorite song sung by John Denver. Perfect. ♥️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kElKEV1ED7g
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Sheila! Knowing of your extensive watercolor experience, I value your appreciation of my color composition! Thank you. And thanks for enjoying my camp stories; I always feel camp memories in my body at this time each summer : )
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