It is possible spring has sprung here. I am still a little suspicious, as we were having snow day before yesterday, but the sun is shining gloriously today. Dick (husband dear) is aking the temperature of the soil in his garden to see if the snow pea seeds and garlic he wants to plant will germinate or lay there and shiver.
I am going to be taking part in a plein aire painting event in Snohomish (our local town) this month, and have a table to sell prints. I have been spending time this a.m. trying to master the art of ordering my prints from Imagekind. I am sure it is easy, but have not found the right page yet. It better be easy, or else what would all my eager customers do!
I have once again started another LARGE painting of the Pacific Northwest trees and rocks on an island somewhere in British Columbia. I also have been working on a friends sketchbook for the sketchbook project a group of us are doing. We work in each others sketchbook, writing or painting in the theme the artist has chosen. Then we trade books all around. This month the sketchbook I have been working in has the theme of portals. Some artists are really formally creative, with quotes from Rumi (an ancient Greek poet) and depict locks and doors, etc. Me, I am humbly offering a mouse hole with a little brown mouse. Welcome to HER world. Wonder if I can find some mouse poetry. Allene
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Yes, there is a darling mouse poem by Eduard Moerike, set to music by Hugo Wolf. It's Mausfallenspruechlein, or the Mouse Trap Rhyme. This tells a little about it.
" "Mausfallensprüchlein" (Mousetrap Rhyme), set on June 18, 1882, is a poem by Eduard Mörike (1804-75). In an effort to catch a mouse, a small child "walks around the mousetrap and says: "Kleine Gäste, kleines Haus / Liebe Mäusin oder Maus..." (Tiny guests, tiny house / Dear girl or boy mouse...). The right hand of Wolf's piano part imitates the scurrying of little creatures as the child sings the rhyme to attract a mouse. "Mausfallensprüchlein" is one of the composer's most genuinely humorous lieder; the text is set to produce the utmost clarity, the melodic leaps becoming larger as the child commands the mouse to dance." ~ All Music Guide
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