Barns & Blooms, and Spring — the season and its colors
Spring flowers make my heart happy. Emerging from the darkness of winter, they bring joy, life, growth, color, persstence, exuberance, and delight into the world. They remind us that the seasons are turning, that light and energy are returning, and that we too are emerging from the darkness of winter — both literal and metaphorical.
Barns speak to me of our connection to the earth, to the land that sustains us and that we depend on, and to our ancestors who worked that land. They have stories to tell, and they remind us of our heritage.
Growing up in RIncon Valley, on the eastern side of Santa Rosa when it was still rural, barns were a part of the world I knew, and I've been very lucky over the years to have had three art studios in barns at different times (including one converted into a cottage on a little ranch where I also lived, and a historic barn that appears to have been built originally by Santa Rosa's first civil rights activist).
Growing up in RIncon Valley, on the eastern side of Santa Rosa when it was still rural, barns were a part of the world I knew, and I've been very lucky over the years to have had three art studios in barns at different times (including one converted into a cottage on a little ranch where I also lived, and a historic barn that appears to have been built originally by Santa Rosa's first civil rights activist).
