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Email Postcard Story – One of Many Ruins of Abbeys and Castles that Dot the Welsh Countryside.
One of Many Ruins of Abbeys …and forever, it seemed, he always felt a touch of melancholy in the late afternoon and early evening, perhaps always regretting the waning of the light, of the golden light of the lowering sun, a fading that reminded his mind and heart over and over, that the day, that...
Postcard Story – Under the Wave Off Kanagawa, Also Known As the Great Wave, From The Series Thirty-Six Views Of Mount Fuji – Katsushika Hokusai – 1830-32 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45434 Youngest Daughter – 12/17/20 …ah, she has seen this before, not the painting itself…oh, not a painting, but a woodblock print, and…well, this is puzzling because she always thought this was a monumental work of art, large, imposing, dominating,...
Postcard Story – View of Marly-Le-Roi from Couer-Volant – Alfred Sisley – 1876 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437682 Second Grandson – 06/28/21 …and the memories of childhood, many soft impressions at best, but all recording somehow our progress and the awakening, the consciousness, of ourselves, our being, distinct and different from all...
Postcard Stories – La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin – Vincent van Gogh – 1889 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437984 (In Public Domain) Oldest Sister – 06/30/14 … and as the older woman rocked the cradle – yes, her granddaughter, but also now by family law and natural law her assumed and assigned place and role in life – she pondered and thought upon this...
Postcard Story – Shoes – Vincent van Gogh – 1888 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436533 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 10/04/21 …and taking off her old garden working shoes was not always so difficult, the bending down while sitting on the back porch bench, the fumbling with the untying…about as worse as the tying…with the...
Postcard Story – Girl With Hay Rake – 1878 – National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Girl with Hay Rake (nga.gov) (In Public Domain) Second Granddaughter – 09/13/21 …and she stopped, paused for just a moment, she thought, though why she stopped, why she paused or for how long she would be still, she did not know, but…it was right, it was good, it was…yes, as if a hand and a gentle...
Postcard Story – Gray Weather, Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat – 1886-88 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438015 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 07/14/21 …and the painting itself, well, yes, she could see what it was, a small excursion boat somewhere on the Seine, it appeared, but with the art the particulars are not always the reality, or at least...
Postcard Story – Four Tulips: Boter Man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote Geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (With the Wind) – Jacob Marrel – ca. 1635-43 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337769 Second Sister's Spouse – 04/08/21 …and then of course what caught her eye and mind was the differences in what she initially assumed, like everyone else…probably…was all the same thing, just two colors red and white put...