Wild Rain Lilies…useless?

wild rain lilies in a jar acrylic/canvas 24″x32″ (click on image twice to zoom. :) ~~ Remember, the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice , 1851 ~~ Hello my little pretties. :) I hope all is good in your worlds. [...]

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Giving is Liberating to the Soul!

Escape V symbolic self portrait/collage 11.5″x15″ (click on image to enlarge) Painting created from Escape V Collage acrylic on canvas (24″ x 32″) click on image to enlarge Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life, but define yourself. ~Harvey S. Firestone Okay..I [...]

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The Messenger and Curiosity

~The Messenger~ oil/canvas 24″x30″ (click on image to enlarge) Man is the messenger who forgot the message. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Hello everyone I hope your week was a pleasant one! I don’t think this will be a long post, but we’ll see what evolves. eh,eh,eh Isn’t this simply a divine quote! Oh how I [...]

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Following the pathless path

the pathless path “unfinished” acrylic on canvas (click on image to enlarge) I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. ~Rosalia de Castro 1837-1885 Good afternoon dear hearts I hope all is good in your worlds. I only have a [...]

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Expand and Live!

Watermelon Magic (pastel on paper) click on the image if you wish to enlarge “I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello all…this will be very short as I am pretty tired tonight. We have [...]

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Wisdom of the Acorn, II

Wisdom of the Acorn ©Morri charcoal on masonite  (click on image to enlarge..twice to zoom) “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello Dear Hearts..I am wishing you a safe holiday weekend. I am on Drayton Island again…we are working on the old house. It still amazes me that [...]

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Life is a magical thing…

Moth Moon Dance (mixed media on canvas) There was a moth in there, and it still had its wing crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing. ~Laurel Clark This piece is another one from the Drayton Island series. [...]

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Stepping into the light.

Come into the light yeah, be the one you’re born to be come into the light wake up from your lonely sleep the shadows can conceal what the heart longs to heal come into the light…     ~Alice Peacock singer (song: Who Am I)     This arcylic (24 X 32) was a fun quick study of glass bottles with [...]

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Mystery of the Woods

After Rain I ©Morri 8″ x 10″ acrylic on canvas (SOLD) ~ “In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.” ~John Fowles ~ Hello darlings, I hope all is good in your worlds.  Have [...]

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Looking into Nature

 Cat Moon do   (Drayton Island Series)©Susan Morrison Sims (Pastel/mixed media on canvas) The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no [...]

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