I’m calling this done. I’d better — or I’d end up in the funny farm. This was a toughie! Mainly because of the fabric. Yes, I could probably pick on it for days and days. But for the sake of my sanity, THIS ONE IS DONE!
That round thing in the center is a flat dish (or basket?) I bought while visiting the Panama Canal some years ago. My brother and his wife and I were careening around in the jungle area outside the Canal when we met this basket-seller. He asked a price and right away my sister-in-law barked that it was too much! “Please — it took my wife 3 days to make this!” the man said. I gave him full price. Just $11. I wish I’d gotten the chance to talk with the basket-maker about the designs. I see a spider, a condor and pyramids.
One of the first things I did upon completing this was to take the bananas (now horribly ripe) and distribute them between the compost pile, the sunflower feeder (where the marauding squirrels will snatch it) and a chunk going into the garage. I believe there’s a possum hiding out in there. He deserves a banana, poor thing.
That big begonia plant belongs to my friend Lucy, who is what we call a “snow-bird”. Each Fall she hightails it down to Texas for the winter, her car jammed to the gills with orchids,. She leaves me this begonia. It blooms beautifully and I’ve used it in paintings several times.
Margie Guyot Art 