Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

New life under the rotting leaves pulses out to seed the earth again. Is there no termination of this terrifying transitory life? Is there truly not enough to go around? Do we have too many cherry blossoms? Can we afford to throw them off into the trampled mud with the first new migratory robin? Can't it wait, that pallid summer, hanging from a threaded limb?             Yes, it's been hiding in that crack all winter!         

I was searching for a Gauguin when I came across a Cezanne! I'm completely perplexed about what to blog next, Can I decide which? Yes I can! (It's Cezanne) Paul Cézanne (French 1839-1906). Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry. c.1897. Oil on canvas. 25 1/8 x 31 1/2 inches. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 1950.196

Beautiful and talented Squiva has decided to allow us to see the how wonderful the healing is going on the right side/1  Squiva'srecent poses were carefully organized to minimize any view of this side.   It's so nice to see Squiva having a total recovery!  Squiva in a Berry Tree, almost completely healed from the trauma last fall

Freckles, a resident Baltimore seagul, Pauses for a portrait on the way to a perch on a nearby mooring.

Paul Gauguin, Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango) , 1892 Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection Paul Gauguin, Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango), 1892 Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection

Our Average Winter Tree, near the Metropolitan Museum of Art is preparing itself for another incredible explosion in -- Let's see, what was that color?

Just wait until the daffodils are in bloom!