Super Day getting ready to "be" Irish -- Happy St. Patrick's Day

Lucky Shamrocks

acrylic on birch,

5 x 5 inches

 Barbara Muir © 2012

SOLD ♥

Happy St. Patrick's Day.  I sold this little painting last year.  This is what

shamrock flowers look like -- delicate wee things, not the hearty,

shiny green we will decorate with March 17 for a small, but festive St. Patrick's

Day family lunch.   My mother thought that the Poindexters, our "Irish"

relatives were Huguenots, who fled France for Ireland, and then fled Ireland 

for Canada settling near what is now Perth, Ontario. By that time they were 

Pounders.

They lived in harrowing times fleeing persecution and famine.  Our

family made up of Scottish, English, Irish, French and Italian on my side,

and Dutch and Indonesian on Steven's side started celebrating this

day when the children were little.  And because children have

fabulous memories you can't have a special celebration once, so

it became a thing we do every year. And will again this year! Have
a good one.

Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day.