Flowers for (French) Mother’s Day*…
When I was a kid, my mother would watch me paint stone walls, building facades and cliff-lined river banks. Lovely grays, browns and ochres. She once said to me, with a bit of impatience in her voice: “Why don’t you paint some nice pretty colorful flowers?” At which point I found flowers very difficult to paint, pretty or otherwise. I don’t know why this occurred. Later, when I tried painting them, they looked like … Read more