Winding Roads
Cedar May 28th, 2007
Anytime I visit home I get inspired by the beautiful mountains.
Today I decided to paint 3 winding roads…well, by the looks of them, maybe they’re just different parts of the same road.
Winding Road 1
12″ x 16″
(Notice how the colors of the landscape change from the distance to the foreground.)
Winding Road 2
12″ x 16″
(I like the deep lush greens in this one–can you smell the clean country air?)
Winding Road 3
8″ x 10″
(I like how the highest mountain in the distance is off-center, and I like the little cluster of flowers under my signature.)
Tomorrow is my sister’s graduation from middle school. (I am 12 years older than her.)
Last night I talked with one of my oldest friends, Tania, for many hours. We realized that when I met her, I was 14, the same age my sister is now. I’ll be 26 in July. Tania is 27 and expecting her first child. I have been a professional artist for years now. I went to college. I own a home. I have a dog. I’ve been married for 8 years. I feel SOOO old.
I am assuming this phenomenon only gets worse the older you get. (I’m sure all you people who are older than me are laughing right now, because I don’t even know the half of it.) =)
Luckily, I don’t think I’m going to have a quarter-life crisis anytime soon–I’ve been too busy.
Everyone was joking saying how old I was because I just turned 22… I realize that isn’t old (and neither is 26!) but I still feel it sometimes. Especially yesterday. I went to see my brothers and the youngest (16) had a friend of his over that I haven’t seen since she was in 1st grade. Now she’s 16 and driving around and looks like she’s my age!
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It is hard not to realize how we have changed when things remind us of the transistions in life we have already past. All of life’s stages are good! Enjoy all of life!