Mother's Day...a Seurat Feeling at the Lake

 

    G. Seurat   Sketch for "The Bathers."

May 8, 2011. This day was framed by a magnificent sunrise and a moody end-of-day sky featuring billowing cumulous clouds with crepuscular rays (what I call a "god sky').  In between, there were beautiful flowers from both of my grown children----and the continuing sounds of two cats trying to figure out why they have been placed together in a small interior in Ellicott City. 

 

At Lake Centennial in Columbia, Maryland, on Mother's Day, it was definitely human energy over duck power, although all were present. It was warm; families were cooking and the smoke rising from the grill attracted me as a momentary marker, of joy, hanging in the air, then remembered in time.  

As I walked quickly, trying to beat "dusk," I took photos of a few things that seemed to represent the day and its lovely surfaces.

Kids shouting, chasing a ball across the walking path...

...playing...a father and daughter batting a ball; a boy about to cast a line into the lake being encouraged by elders. It all made me smile.

There were also those sounds of silence. A couple asleep...a bicyclist zooming by, a jogger with a headset.

It felt like summer to me, but it is not. That feeling of breezy freedom and movement; those electric greens and a light breeze--in short, all that wonderful feeling all at once. I had to leave.

Kay Weeks
May 9, 2011
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