Bloomin' June Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 Lemon Yellow

Bloomin' June

original plein air watercolors w/Conestoga House  Sunroom and Gardens: 9" x 12"

the June flower guild

is in this backyard

it’s a wallflower farm

with plenty of charm

there’s rose in the glow

of this sumptuous show

as the finches and bees

in their feasting agree

so let’s have some fun

before summer’s done

we’ve one month or two

to enjoy the view!

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Poser Patrol Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Poser Patrol

original watercolor still life w/sunflowers: 8" x 10"

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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Pot o' Posers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Pot o' Posers

original watercolor still life w/sun/flowers: 9" x 12"

Woo hoo Sophie

our girls have come back

it seems they’ve brought summer

in their backpacks 

with petals wide open

and brown faces glowin’

there’s no time for faintin’

we gotta get set up

to work on our paintin’

yes Sophie, it’s true

“summertime

and the livin’ is fine....”

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Summertime is Oh So Fine Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Summertime is Oh So Fine

original plein air watercolor:/Steinman Manse, Lancaster: 10" x 13" 

in the beginning

we all loved the sun

we couldn’t get enough

we were never quite “done”

our faces were bronzed

our hair sun-streaked gold

our innocence reigned

we’d never grow old

but time has a way

a mean streak, I’d say,

of hastening the days

that youth does betray

so now that we’re old

or older, to wit,

we’re gonna wise up

and use sunscreen, just a bit...

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Poppa's Day Gig Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Poppa's Day Gig

 original plein air watercolor/Lime Valley Mill: 11" x 14"

Curiosity

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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Lewes View Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Lewes View

original plein air landscape, Lewes DE.: 10" x 12" 

oh to be

 by the sea

just my fam’ly and me

sunblocked nose

bug sprayed toes

sunning responsibly

grasses sway 

sand dunes say

join all nature at play

roaring surf

sandy turf

it’s a summer beach day!

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The Manse on Marietta Plein air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Manse on Marietta

original watercolor plein air landscape: 10" x 13"

oh spring

is the thing

we hope for in November

long for in December

lose in January

right through February

cry for in March

die for in April

can’t wait one more day

for the merry month of May

and still cold temps cling

to every bloomin’ thing!

so when the month of June

bursts suddenly into view

I look around and smile

PLEASE stay with me awhile

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Gone Fishin' Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Gone Fishin' 

original plain air watercolor at Safe Harbor Dam, PA : 11" x 15"

evening oblations

gives solace to me

with new revelations

waiting to be

so lest i forget

the beauty i see

i’ll daily inspect

the glories that be

and paint thankfully

His grand poetry

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Barn-stable Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Barn-stable

original plein air watercolor w/barn, fields: 10" x 14"

Harmo-nious Perso-nious

went out for a run 

this very fine day

had lots to be done

stuff that gets in the way

of some fun in the sun

but nature’s libretto

called out ceremo-nious

in pleasing vibrato

a sound tremolo-nious

twas something I sought to

experience in perso-nious

and when I got done

on this very fine day

from my run in the sun

I was all tuned up and completely harmo-nious

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Divas All Musical Motif Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Divas All

original still life watercolor w/violin, sunflower, fruit: 7" x 10"

the violin’s a diva girl

when bowed she lets her notes unfurl

when plucked

her notes are quite abrupt

and when she’s played her last hurrah

she bows and takes two curtain calls!

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Barn-stable Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Barn-stable

original plein air watercolor w/barn: 6" x 10"

a Gettysburg farm

with old country charm

fields of clover and of corn

planted straight, in good form

a house neat and tall

with a chimney-ed east wall

the barn's 'round the bend

with horses in their pens

and wayward banty hens

gossiping with all their friends

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