UNEXPECTED GIFT

I was just walking out of a wonderful museum, and then again, I saw how

Nature produces Her own, most astonishing art. Thanks for any

comments or critiques.

I wouldn't give nature all the credit here, since we seem to be seeing her (or is nature a "him", could be) reflected in a man-made building (I take it to be some sort of modern glass structure?) And, in any case, we're getting to see it through your eyes and framing, so our experience is not unlike the one you had when looking at the paintings, though your experience was to find it as is and transform it for us into a picture. The colors are really quite lovely and I suspect the glass is imposing some of its own color cast onto the scene and doing a nice job of it. Though I tend mostly to think of art as what's inside the museum, what's been made by someone, I do think an artistic eye roams the world freely and openly, and your eye has done that. This nicely combines a sense of reality with a sense of abstractness. I find it meditative in that I'm content to keep looking.

Very colorful and graphically reflection!

It takes an artist to perceive the art. I'm not talking about labels here, just an innate disposition.

Now that I have read Fred's usual eloquent comment on the picture, I see we both latched onto the same theme - the ability to see. When I was in college I took a creative writing class. One assignment was to write a short essay describing something, anything. I took it upon myself to describe the front of the school library with its water-stained façade and the bits of trash caught in the hedge at its base. Nothing too masterful to be sure but the teacher scrawled a brief comment on the corner of the paper. It read "your eyes are able to see. It's amazing how rare that is". That happened over 50 years ago and I've never forgotten those words. Now I send them off to you.