The Ox 'n Lamb Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Ox'n Lamb

original watercolor landscape w/ox: 10" x 14"

Gossip Girls

The ox'nlamb girls are gettin’ together for lunch

And gossip and news at the “Cafe Munch Bunch”.

The menu for today's Specialty Brunch:

Buttercup Burgers and Crispy Horse Fries

For dessert: Malted Grain Splits and Friuty Cow Pies....

So do not tarry, don't be late

For this fine midday tete-a-tete!

BB'22

Autumness Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Autumness

original watercolor plein air landscape: 9" x 12"

may autumn come gentler

o’er dew glittered morns

meandering zephyrs

refreshment adorned

it’s time to embrace

this summer’s demise

the sun’s fading grace

and hazy blue skies

autumness comes

routinely, you see

it’s time to move on

what will be will be

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Garden D-Light Landscape Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Gardenm D-Light

original watercolor landscape: 10" x 15"

may autumn come gentler

o’er dew glittered morns

meandering zephyrs

fall-ish adorned

it’s time to embrace

this summer’s demise

the sun’s fading grace

and hazy blue skies

autumness comes

routinely, you see

it’s time to move on

what will be will be

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Middlecreek Minuet Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Middlecreek Minuets

original watercolor en plein air: 6" x 8"

Abrupt

is how i’d describe

the weather outside

‘cause one day it’s mild

and pleasant - it’s wild

'cause next day’s so cold

there’s frost on my nose

the furnace is running

it seems ‘round the block

while i sit here humming

the ‘icelandic rock’

so where did it go

that mild weather cheer

did it show up this year

did i miss it, i fear

i’m sportin’ enough

sweaters and stuff

i’d rather be sweatin’ 

but cold’s what i’m gettin’

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Fall-out Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Fall-out

original watercolor plein air landscape: 9" x 12"

Sophie and I know

that sometimes it’s best

to simply allow

a painting to rest

it may not be done

though there are intense

and beautiful hues

that seem to make sense

we want to be sure

we have to confess

that this work secures

it’s soulful-ishness

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A River Runs Through It Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

A River Runs Through It

original plein air landscape: 10" x 14"

i think that it’s done

and i had some fun

‘though there a few 

solutions that skewed

my original view

and managed to be

surprising, you see

so now i don’t know

if it’s fit to show

if not,

 you’ve just got

to tell me to Stop!

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A Fine Day, Anyway Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

A Fine Day, Anyway

original en plein air landscape at Overlook: 10" x 13"

this world’s a porcupine

all sharp quills, sticking out

prickly, defensive

voices raised in deafening shouts

no generosity

nor compromise 

just hyper right-eousity

let's agree to disagree 
saving our democracy

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The Sunflower Shack Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Sunflower Shack

original watercolor landscape en plein air: 10" x 14"

Goldfinch Grinch

My sunflower girls

Never use my sunblock 

Nor do they apply

 Suntan lotion a lot

They’re naturally golden

Their brown faces boastin’

Their fearless devotion

To sunshine in motion

But there are some days

They have to confess

A shot of pest spray

Would be their best bet

For shoo-ing away 

Gold finches of prey

‘Cause finches 

Are Grinches

As they yank pull and splay

The petals and bonnets

My sunflowers boast

In my poems and sonnets

Why couldn’t they just

Gather seeds without fuss.... 

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The Smokehouse at Landis Valley Farms Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Smokehouse at Landis Valley

original en plein air watercolor: 10" x 14"

so there i was painting

to whit, en plein air

the sun it was shining

the view oh so fair

what i did not see

was a stranger near me

he must have been testy

that bugger so pesty

who unknown to me

(painting diligently)

took exception, i guess

and gave me his best

i hollered out OUCH

you bugger you beast

i’m stung and you’re OUT 

squashed by my feet

so here’s the main thing 

when painting plein air

to avoid a bee sting

use bug spray EV’RYWHERE!

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The SmokeShack Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The SmokeShack

original watercolor en plein air smokehouse at Landis Valley Museum: 10" 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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Grazin' Daze Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Grazin' Daze

original watercolor en plein air: 10" x 14"

A Mid-Summer's Romance

Take a moment, 

Just relax

Look forward, think back...

Jasmine and Honeysuckle

Scents of seduction

Flirty Fireflies wink

Quick bursts of combustion

Warm summer nights

A cashmere caress

Sun-draped daylight

Crisp linen, sparkling white

Ahh, summer's sun-dance

Care to join me, per-chance?

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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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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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