If I twist the words Julie Andrews sang in The Sound of Music to be, "Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something vile." am I perverting a metaphor? (Help me English teaching colleagues.) Whatever the figure of speech/literary device, I'm using that notion to explain why 20% of our ewes that have lambed to date have delivered triplets? I'm sticking with the belief that a good ewe should be able to raise triplets and acting on the fact that I do not like bottle bums, so . . . I have them poked every which where and have declared "No Vacancy for Trios at the Prairie Island Inn--Only Duets or Solos Welcome." That said, several more ewes look HUGE with babies, and I will, indeed, welcome them and give them my all. Nevertheless, I plan to be free as a bird next week to participate in Great Fall's Western Art Week. Come see the MT Watercolor Society display at the Great Western Living & Design show at the fairgrounds March 15 - 18. Unless our driveway is impassably drifted, I plan to have paintings on exhibit, including this one of the door latch on our 1914 era "lower barn". Whee! Some fun!
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Toneybeth Clark
3/13/2018 08:16:26 am
I REALLY love this painting of the barn latch.
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Margaret Eller
3/13/2018 07:01:09 pm
Thank you, Toneybeth. My recent new paintings are focused on barns & sheds, mostly because I love them and their functionality but partly because that's where I live most of the time these days and nights. (And I smell like one even when I'm in the house.)
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Margaret zieg ellerFor 25 years, Prairie Island has been my anchor, my core, my muse. The seasonal rhythms of land and livestock sustain me. The power of place inspires me. Archives
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