Eyes behold the beauty
Several weeks ago my eyes caught a gentleman standing at the water fountain on Main Street painting. He appealed to be so relaxed and looked as if he did not have a care in the world but focusing on the stroke of his brush and catching the right moment of sunlight painting the beautiful portrait of The Inn.
To me he looked like his painting was so soothing.
Although I have seen him several times in town painting my mind told me that I need to get in contact with this beholder.
So I did it by phone.
His name is Palmer Smith, and has a bachelor of arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. A full time professional artist and paints plein air or outdoors in an impressionist style. He loves painting on-site and capturing the light color and experience of his surroundings.
Smith is a long-term resident of Warrenton and he loves to paint the landscapes and towns and people. He doesn't like to be stuck in his studio painting but to be out sharing his love of painting with the people he meets
wherever his painting leads him. Painting is his full time job and sole income.
He said he would be happy to paint pictures of people’s homes.
If you ever see him out and about painting, feel free to stop and take a look at his beautiful painting or feel free to give him a call at 540-878-3520.
SIX MONTHS INTO THE YEAR!
Half the year has gone by in the blink of an eye! Here it is July already, and we just celebrated Independence
Day. Our country has so much to be thankful for, and it all started with our independence. As Lee Greenwood so beautifully sang, “I thank my lucky stars to be living here today, ’cause the ag still stands for freedom, and they can’t take that away.”
I hoped that everyone had a nice Independence Day and was ready to head back to work on Wednesday.
DOGS DAYS BEGIN
If the hot, sticky and muggy days have not tipped you o yet, allow me to tell you: The dog days of summer are upon us.
In the summer, Sirius, known as the Dog Star for being the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, rises and sets with the sun. Ancient people believed its heat added to the sun’s swelter, creating a stretch of hot and sultry weather. They called this period the “dog days.”
Dog days occur between July 3 and Aug. 11. The heat is not, of course, the result of the added radiation from a faraway star, but the result of the earth’s tilt. Sorry to say we have several weeks of this; then maybe the dog days will fetch some cooler weather for us.
BERRY SEASON
July is berry month. Blueberries come rst, wineberries next, raspberries, then my favorite: blackberries. My husband has some blackberry vines this year with large berries on them. I hope that I can get to them before the bears do.
BIRTHDAY WISHES
Birthday wishes to my brother, John Wayne Burke, who celebrates Wednesday, July 5. Ginger Miller of Washington blows out her candles on July 13 (Roger, make sure you take your wife out for a nice dinner — and don’t forget the owers); Betty Crawford’s birthday is July 21; and my stepmother, Janet Burke, and my daughter, Heather Dawn Singleton, both celebrate birthdays onThursday, July 27.
Stay safe and stay cool.