Too Hot to Trot Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 To Grandmother's House

original: 10" x 14"

Too Hot to Trot

original watercolor animal pic: 10" x 14" 

what HO

too bad i now know 

what living inside

a work zone implies 

‘cause circumsizin’

a basement flood zone

has taken it’s toll

 on ALL my household

the jackhammer’s jumpin’

that reverb is somethin’

there’s dust dancin’ round

the clean spots it’s found

my once tidy home

is mocking at me

my Mrs Clean throne

has picked up and gone

i’ve gotta stop frettin’

and throw in the towel

the dust, it will settle

soon, but not now

then final-ly

my job is i see

to clean until fall

2019

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The Shack in the Back Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Shack in the Back

original en plein air landscape: 10" x 14"

Cold Front

The windows I’m closin’

my sunflowers need  hosin’

it’s blisterin hot

not one cold spot

‘cept here by the door

of the freezer in the store

where I pretend to stock up

on creamsicle pops

but truth to be told

it’s just good to feel cold!

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The RedHead Com-Poser Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The RedHead Com-Poser

original watercolor sunflowers: 10" x 14"

Summer Bliss

My windows are open

Cool breezes are flowin’

My curtains are flirtin'

With the sill and the sash 

This is the way

A fine summer day

Ought always to be 

For two months or three....

Suites me perfectly

I bet you’d agree!

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En Plein Air QwikPix Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 Angry Birds

Tractor Shax

En Plein Air QwikPix

original watercolor chickens/farmscape: 8" x10" / 10" x 14"

are Lightning Bugs 

buggers

that blink in the night

just summer time pluggers

getting on with their lives

or do they endeavor

to be so much better

when call-ed fire-flies

alighting June nights

it’s really semantics

but much more romantic

and downright dra-mantic

to portray all their frantic

light sparking antics

when their claim to fame

- a butt with a flame -

is enhanced by a name

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Bert's Bees Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Bert's Bees

original watercolor w/bees, flowers: 6" x 8" 

Summer Meadows

smocked, sun dresses

in pinks and reds

petticoat pastures

stitched in yellow-green threads

the sky a canopy

of bustling bee harmonies

and chirpy bird melodies 

as streams clap rhythmic’ly....

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Blueprint in Brown Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Summer Blueprint in Brown

original watercolor quick sketches: 9" x 12"

Blues 'n Brown Cruise

there’s plenty to do 

in summer it’s true

but sometimes I must

simply adjust

my take on all work

and shirk all that work

take time to relax

look forward, think back

embrace solitude

consider my mood

it’s summertime blues

a soul soothing cruise

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Into the Woods Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

in the beginning

                                                                Into The Woods
                                              original watercolor plein air landscape : 10" x 14"

curiouser and curiouser

it seems to me

this summer’s the bomb

at flirting, you see

‘cause just when you feel

a cool  weightless breeze

a sun so friendly

you’re relaxin’ indeed

a thick hulking cloud 

of hu-MID-ity

descends with a shout

and spreads itself out

oh yes there’s the rub

to summer time fun

those idyllic days

come quickly undone....

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