JAKE AND THE WEEPING CHERRY

If you want an animal to pose for you, it is impossible.  However, some dogs just seem to show up when you are painting and sit or lie in the middle of the scene.  It would seem our new dog Jake is one of the posers.

Birdbath and Forsythia

Forsythia #1

The feisty forsythia thrusts itself into the blue violet air of spring,

everywhere joyously poking and jabbing,

Atwhirl among the city trash or dancing down an open field,

It won't stop saying - 'Yes'!

Except of course, where some  fool 

has brutally whacked its spirit into an ugly ball.

Then it squeezes out an occasional desultory bloom, 

just to show what might have been.