Until then, here’s another new (large) painting fresh from the farm, followed by a wonderful poem by my friend, James Mee…
“Mettowee Valley Farm” 30X40 Oil on panel Original: Available Print: Available
Vermont
by James Mee
It’s found in every season
a beauty beyond measure.
In a landscape of Green Mountains
each season shows its pleasure.
Nature is the light of legend
shimmering on these lakes.
Or glistens in December
while falling with snowflakes.
Her rivers share their swimming holes,
Her elms trees shade town greens.
Stone walls quilt her dairy farms
criss-crossed by farm machines.
Her valleys deep, pastures wide,
She’s what we know by heart.
And with these pillared mountains
it is eternal art.
The foliage of autumn.
The snows of winter white.
Bring each bloom of spring to life,
to grow in summer’s light.
What reasons make this place our home?
Whose seasons make us whole?
Whose beauty shaped in twilight’s hope
bring knowings to the soul?
Vermont!
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Poem Copyright 2014 James Mee
Grandpa’s Knob, Vermont
All Rights Reserved
Love both of these…the old Vermont!
The old Vermont, from an old Vermont artist. Thanks Susan!
Vermont was our retirement dream We have lived a very happy and active life here. I have many Volunteer projects. I need to be active and help where ever I can. Your delightful painting take me back to my Child, growing up in a very rural farm near The Great The Lake Reservoir. I have Volunteered at the Chaffee Art Center and their Art in the Park events, many times. I was the lady who showed up at your Studio (unannounced,) a whole day early ! Peter, You came up the stair, eating remainder of your luncheon sandwich. You were welcoming and gracious toward me. Thank you, dear Peter, for not treating me as an intrusive old fan of yours.God Bless you and your loved ones. <3
You are a sweetheart Priscilla, thanks for all YOU do! Peter
The mettowee valley and this painting bring back such wonderful memories. We would travel by this farm enrout to visit grandparents in the Berkshires. The scenes would change each and every trip with the seasons. Peter, once again you captured it.
It is one of my favorite drives too Chris, always good things to see no matter what time of the year. Thanks my friend!
Ok. I a,m so homesick for New Hampshire! Vermont is so similar, and lively. The poe
m is wonderful too
Art and poetry just seem to go together well. It’s an honor to share James Mee’s work here. Thanks Caroline!
With so many farms rapidly disappearing from our landscape, it is wonderful to re-live the sights and sounds from a farm.. The poem is wonderful and says it all… thank you both for your wonderful works of art and for keeping the rural landscape alive!
Our pleasure Mary, thanks for your kind words!
Wonderful misty atmosphere in “Out to Pasture”. Early September mornings as a youngster on the way to school, I’d pass by valley farms shrouded in mist and see the cows head to pasture. By mid-morning the fog would all burn off revealing a glorious sunny day. What memories!
” Mettowee Valley Farm” is a splendid painting. It seems so detailed and precise, and yet so painterly and abstract! Wow! What more could I want?!
I agree Brian…My taste in art appreciates work that somehow manages to successfully straddle the mysterious, wonderful space between abstraction and representation, appealing to the eye, head, and heart simultaneously, in a one-two-three punch. I want it all. 🙂
beautiful as always
Thank you Betty!
You have captured my Vermont. The way it is in all my memories of that beautiful state. Thank you.
Thank you Barbara!