Spring Waning Seed Moon
We hit 36 at 6:00 a.m. The prediction for tomorrow is 80. There’s a swing, 44 degrees. We do have a sunny though chilly morning here in Andover with a robin’s egg sky.
Some tree buds have begun to appear as the tulips, daffodils, day lilies and iris continue to climb toward the sun.
This will be the first growing season for our new orchard, watching it green up has special interest this year. Instead of a rabbit fence we have a three whippet garden guarding system.
This morning I get to spend time among several European paintings getting ready for a college tour on Friday. I love the research for tours when I have time to really dig around in the books, lectures and websites. Developing tours is a layered process, with each object informing the next and the tours of last week and last year informing the next.
One of the things that becomes clearer the more research you do are timelines, historical context. When did expressionism take hold? How about the T’ang dynasty? When were the Kano-school painters in Japan? Who followed them and did they influence them? This kind of material takes time to absorb, digest and then to take up residence as part of a skill set. A real privilege.
