Right now pansies rule

Gather ye pansies while ye can!

Acrylic ink, watercolour and black marker

on watercolour paper

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Barbara Muir © 2018

Spring is tilting into reality here.  The trees still

aren't in full bud, but forsythia are starting to 

show their yellow blooms, and scilla carpet 

lawns in the most beautiful blue.  Occasionally

this week it has been warm enough for people

to walk around in shorts.  This make me feel

nostalgia in advance for the pansies.

I bought some more, and stuck them on my front

steps.  But it's been too cold at night and they're

not producing many flowers, so I pick them as soon 

as they bloom, and today I'm painting them

again.  They don't like hot, and don't like cold.

Right now it fluctuates between warm and cold, but

I know I don't have long. 

What's the line from the Robert Herrick poem?

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."  Make that

pansies, and you've got the sentiment.

Have an enjoying what each day offers day.