Drama and sadness – in nature’s paradise

Full Serve

watercolour on watercolour paper

9 x 12 inches

Barbara Muir © 2011

I’ve said that we are living in paradise here

we are – seafood available at every turn –

rolling fields with horses and cows set against

 ocean views of breathtaking beauty.  People

 who are among the nicest in the world (I can’t restrict

that to one place because I feel lucky to know

wonderful people from all over the world.) But last 

night driving home from shopping in Amherst about 

45 kilometers away, we moved through a spectacular 

thunder storm – lightning arced for miles across the sky

in glorious and terrifying patterns. 

I was both terrified and mesmerized.  This morning

the news told of people stranded on the runway in

planes at the Halifax airport for 8 hours, because the

ground crews couldn’t go out to service the planes while

 the storm was happening.

The sadness is about having to go.  I love this place, our

 school house, the town, the province, the people with all

 my heart.  It is a wrench every year when we get ready to

 leave.  But instead I want to concentrate on how lucky we are

 to get to spend time here.  This morning I woke up to the

sound of rain on the tin roof.  That feels exactly like being in the

 middle of a rain cloud.  And though I might love a bright

beach type of day, rain suits the moment. 

My painting today is another watercolour of a woman gassing

 up her car in one of the most beautiful areas of the province. 

Despite the Full Serve designation on her pump, she is filling the

car herself.  I like the way she is leaning against the car as though

 it’s a trusted friend. 

Have an enjoying-the-drama-of-nature day.