I can relate to the woman in the painting, though I’m thankful that in my case I don’t have to combine my walking outings with the search for sticks. The fall season has arrived for real, and I had to shut all the windows against the air turned chill. I’ve started to assemble the makings for my own wood-burning in the stove, and by the time you read this, the fire may be blazing.
The moon tonight is only waxing gibbous, but October 25, only a few hours away for me, is the day when I might see the fully full (Hunter’s) moon where I live. But I enjoyed standing in the street to look at the white globe in its lesser glory, not quite fully revealed. I even took a picture from the spot I often do, with my neighbor’s roofline and redwood tree in the frame. But my camera isn’t really up to the task, so I’m sharing this painting by Ivan Marchuk.
I love to think and consider again and again, the way all the people who have ever lived on the earth have seen that same moon in the sky. I only know how to gaze at it, so I’m thankful for Ivan and others who can magnify its beauty and enlarge my vision of our beloved moon, how it blesses our neighborhoods everywhere.
My granddaughter Maggie (photo above from a different stage of her life) was here from Wisconsin for a night and a day this week, with her husband Wil. They are expecting a baby in a few months, glory to God. One thing we did during our visit was to drive to the apple orchards where I always go. This time I brought home a box full of Rome Beauties, Baldwins, and Pippins. I think I’ll start dehydrating most of them next week, but for now, the garage where they are waiting is very aromatic.
I have so many lovely paintings I’ve saved in digital files on my computer, and not enough poems and other blog posts to attach them to. I may have to contrive reasons to put up my favorites, maybe without stories. But apples are a fallish topic, so in this case it they give me an obvious opportunity to share this painting below.
I enjoyed this collection of comic book covers over the years, those featuring the Statue of Liberty: America at 250: The Statue of Liberty in 13 Covers. Here’s one of the earliest, from 1941:
And here is my favorite:
This is the first time I’ve ever really looked at comic book art as something more than the background to the text. It helps that someone put all these examples in one place as a mini-museum for me to peruse. Maybe you will like to click through and see all 13 yourself.
