Summer Waxing Summer Moon
Vega will find herself star-crossed in a couple of weeks. We hired a fence-installer to put up a three rail split fence with a green mesh over the back to keep the pups out of the orchard. When the pups are more mature, we can take down the green mesh and have a split rail fence. We already have a couple of runs of split rail. A good solution.
Tonight is sheepshead. You may remember I did well the last time. Tonight is a new night, new cards. I’m glad I did as well as I did last time, especially considering the years of experience around the table. Wonder how the cards will run tonight.
Still working the Lady of Shallot. This is one of three or four of Hunt’s paintings that I consider masterpieces: Finding of the Savior, Bianca, Triumph of the Innocents. At the moment I’m inclined to lift my tour theme from a monograph about the Lady of Shallot, “The Burden of Meaning.” His work goes right to the bone, the skeleton the natural world as it is, the flesh, the symbolic overlay. The Lady of Shallot satisfies me the most because it includes a wild emotional gesture with a cerebral message about art and authenticity.
