Flowers -- joy in a time of hardship

The Pansies series

Each painting is acrylic in and marker on paper

Each painting is 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Barbara Muir © 2019

I may add to or edit this blog.  But the reason I'm showing you these

beautiful flowers tonight, is because we need hope, and we need

beauty.  And if you have the chance to get out in nature beauty is

everywhere.  If you know someone who is shut in because of the 

Coronavirus perhaps you could leave some flowers on their doorstep

if you can't have contact.

I loved the video I shared today on Facebook of people in Italy

who are quarantined singing together from their apartment balconies. 

How moving. I tried imagining people on our street all standing on

their front porches singing, and it was a very happy thought.  We need

those.  Our Art Gallery of Ontario, and Royal Ontario Museum

are shut down, the universities and colleges are closed temporarily.

People coming home to Canada from holidays are requested to

self isolate.  

We need to support one another.  If you read this, I'd love to hear

some cheerful ideas for how to muster through this crisis.

One parent whose children will be home from school until

April suggested board games.  My husband and I went to our

favourite park again today just before sunset to feed the geese,

ducks and swans.  It was lovely and we found ourselves 

singing in the park all alone walking along paths with magnificent

gold light making every single wild thing look magical.

Have a working on being positive and staying healthy day.