Summer Sage And Sacred Detura

This painting is just the essence of July in the southern Utah desert. Filled with color and warmth it cries out for a hike in bare feet, the warm coral sand caressing your toes just so gently. Once in a while you run across a sacred detura plant. Deep blue green foliage hosts a spectacular lily like flower of pure white. They say the plant is poisonous and that it is halucinagenic.as well. It likes the sandy washes and makes itself at home there.

I painted this scene in 1976, when my third son was just a baby. Mimi sat under a tree close to his playpen and I painted and we talked of the wonder of the country, and how happily the baby cooed  in the warm sunshine. I found such great joy of splashing the watercolors on my paper. My heart was happy and my older sons played with their metal cars on the wash bank. I would call out to them,"What are you building?" The older one replied, "I'm constructing a fire station and I have a grocery store, and a gas station to go with it."

The younger son, Marc replied with great passion, " I'm building a nation!"
How my heart swelled with love and gratitude for my little family all around me. My brush worked with tenderness and just enough playfulness to make my painting dance to the music of my heart!

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