I’m calling this “done”. The initial inspiration for this came from the vintage silk scarf I’d found at Wilson’s Antiques. The horse puppet was from an estate sale and I’d had it hanging in my house. My dearly-departed friend, Hannah Frassinelli, gave me the bunny puppet a few years ago. Actually, everything’s from various estate sales and junk stores.
In a way, this painting represents an incident that happened to me a couple days ago. It was a beautiful, sunny day and I’d gone out to find a nice spot to set up and paint a landscape. I turned down a seasonal road north of Bellaire. It went on for quite a ways through the woods and over ridges. Finally it came to an abrupt halt: and what a sight that was. Junk cars and trucks, old sheds, broken-down mobile homes, etc! And there stood 4 or 5 very angry-looking people, glaring at me. A couple dogs leapt at my car. Lordy! They looked like they were going to shoot me! I slowly turned around and got the hell outta there! I don’t know what I’d run into. Some kind of drug nest???
Anyway — symbolically, the complicated scarf designs represent the crazy back roads. The dark horse represents the threatening people. I’m the “cowering” bunny rabbit. Daffodils represent Spring. Butterflies represent my love of nature. It was just too weird!!! I’d started this painting the week before I went down this road. Could it have been “prophetic”??
Margie Guyot Art 
It will be interesting to learn whether some of your neighbors can shine some light on your discovery. My guess is it was just a bunch of people who like to be left alone and who don’t have a lot of money. Probably nothing more sinister than that. … however, I love your analogy.
(BTW, I have a challenge. I had a friend go on a trip and use Word Press as his way to get info out to folks about his trip.
Somehow when he sent me the info for his site, I must have “done something.” Anyway – from that time to now, I cannot COMMENT on any other Word Press blog. When I click to COMMENt and start to post, it tells me that my email address is used y an account to which I am not logged into – when indeed I am logged in, read your post from my email, and clicked on COMMENT. if you have any idea what I did – or how I can fix it, I would love to do it.
Thansks1
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