I’ve lingered in Iowa longer than intended this month, and I’m missing home, but gosh, these Midwestern skies are so darned pretty. I walked with a friend at Ada Hayden in Ames yesterday. We’d been look at at the lake, then turned around and wow, the clouds and blue sky against the grasses took my breath away.
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| Ada Hayden Oranges 10” x 14” watercolor on Arches 100% cotton cold press paper |
I was walking a round a lake in northern Ames, Iowa, feeling badly for my elderly mother, 95, who lives in a nursing home and has developed a rough case of the respiratory flu. I was also feeling homesick for my husband and sons and daughters-in-law and 4 grandkids b/c I’ve been away from where we all live in the San Francisco/East Bay Area x 5 weeks, checking in on Mom while my sibs, who live near her, are out of state. (I thank the gods for her terrific aids and nurses!)
I rounded the bend and was struck by the beauty of the orange-ish prairie grasses and the light-colored trees against the beautiful blue sky. And suddenly all was well.
I met Sally forty years ago when I was twenty and she was the one in her sixties. I was a waitress at a Howard Johnson’s restaurant on...
