Somebunny Loves You

    “Somebunny Loves You”           8” x 8”        Pastel         $70        © Sharon Lewis

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            I love this time of year when signs of new life are all around us. I can see hawks in my backyard busily feeding their young high up in a tree while flowering bushes and trees are everywhere I look in my neighborhood. Other birds are busily singing their spring songs which makes for wonderfully cheerful background music as I spend hours grading papers and writing letters of recommendation. Lately, when I walk or run late in the afternoon, I occasionally surprise a small bunny like this one which I can’t help but associate with Easter, though admittedly I’m more likely to think of the chocolate version and not the very adorable live version.

            To all my friends who celebrate Passover, Happy Passover! To family and friends who celebrate Easter, Happy Easter!

Hidden Away

   “Hidden Away”            5” x 7”          Pastel         $50         © Sharon Lewis

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            When I used to visit Maine more regularly, we’d often pass this cove so well-hidden by trees that if you weren’t paying attention, you’d drive past and never even realize it was there. For some reason, places like that fascinate me. They are places that reveal themselves to those looking for them; the ones who pay attention and look for the unexpected. Driving on the only road leading in or out to a distant island, with trees on both sides and knowing there was water just beyond and out of sight, we’d suddenly catch a quick glimpse of one of these small coves, often with boats moored safely away from the worst of Maine’s storms. We all need these safe coves at times; a place to be sheltered and hidden away from the worst of what life throws at us.

            Happy Weekend!

 

Where the Great Heron Feeds

 

“Where the Great Heron Feeds”        5” x 7”          Pastel         $50         © Sharon Lewis

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            It’s that time of year when I seem to spend far too much of my time evaluating others; my least favorite aspect of teaching. It’s also one of the most beautiful times of year, when I would most like to, as Wendell Berry wrote :

“…go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.” Ahhhh, maybe sometime soon?

            Happy Weekend!

Beach in Repose

“Beach in Repose”        5” x 7”          Pastel         $50         © Sharon Lewis

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            So many of us love to walk on a beach and I’m certainly one of them. I find however, that I like it best when I’m not distracted by a ton of people; when I can walk at sunset and listen to the rhythmic sound of the sea, watch the tiny sea birds grabbing dinner while dodging the waves, and enjoy the beauty of the sky unfolding before me. What’s your favorite time to be on the beach?

           

           Hope there’s a beach in your future and have a Happy Weekend!

 

In the Lee

“In the Lee”         8” x 10”      Pastel         $75       © Sharon Lewis

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            I saw this family at the beach recently and it looked to me like they’d found just the right place to play, sheltered from the wind in the lee of a hill and a large mass of beach grass. With so much sadness in the news lately it made me happy to focus on this small family group. It reminds me of idyllic days spent at the beach with my young son and daughter, when their most important concerns were building sandcastles, looking for shells, and chasing the poor sea gulls. I wish that all children could feel this sheltered.

            Happy Weekend!

 

The Wonder of Discovery

“The Wonder of Discovery”            5” x 7”          Pastel         $50         © Sharon Lewis

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             I took a few, much-needed days off recently and visited the beautiful, South Carolina coast. It’s early in the season with the water too cold for swimming but it’s a perfect time to walk on the beach searching for yet more sea shells (some might say I have way too many already). Having grown up on the Florida coast and spending my childhood at the beach I remember exploring what the water left behind with such wonder…at the shells, the tiny crabs, the sea glass; everything was an exciting discovery to a young child…and I’ll admit, still is for this much older adult.

            Happy Weekend!

Early Evening in the Wetlands

“Early Evening in the Wetlands”           8” x 10”          Pastel         $75       © Sharon Lewis

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            One of my favorite coastal areas to visit is the Isle of Palms, a narrow barrier island near Charleston, SC. It’s driving distance from Atlanta so it’s great for short getaways and walking the beach there I’ll see far more birds than people this time of year. On the way to Isle of Palms, I pass beautiful wetlands, filled with a variety of birds. This is a painting of these wetlands in the early evening, with the setting sun just kissing the water with the last light.

            Happy Weekend!