Summer Bliss Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Summer Bliss

original still life watercolor w/pitchers, bottles, tea pot: 22" x 22"

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!

BB

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Com-posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

original sunflower watercolor: 15" x22"

My Backyard Sauna

it’s a sunflower sauna

and my flora and fauna

are roasting and toasting

there’s even some boasting

“Oh back in the day

in Savannah, I’d say

twas a’ hundred and three

under a shady oak tree

I, no flower, just a seed 

don’t ya see

had a great aching need

to flee to PA

where I’d hoped to someday 

join the sunflower parade

as a backyard summer guest

at BB’s Sunflower Fest”...

well, that was my quest

now I’m part of the crew

and it’s hot up here too

so we’re growling as we’re toweling.... 

shoulda moved to Kalamazoo!

BB

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Com-posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

original: 11"x14"

Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 21" x 22"

Finch Flies

oh, the finches frenzied flight

simply a stunning yet silly sight

their path a series of dips and scoops

lofty lifts and lyrical loops

all the while holdin’

their scrumptious find

the seeds that they’ve stolen

from your sunflowers and mine...

BB

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Com-posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 15" x 22"

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.... 

BB

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Cavorting Com-posers Watercolor Sunflowers by Bertie Brown

Cavorting Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 15" x22"

Cavorting Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 15"x22"

Cavorting Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 11" x 15"

The Summer Time Strut

My sunflower girls 

are struttin’ their stuff

YAYY, summer is here

and rain, THAT’S enough!

we’ve fine’ly got heat

I love it, do you?

it took LONG in comin’

but what can ya do...

now Sophie and I

will work en plein air

we’ll paint while they pose

with plenty of flair!

BB'13

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The Farmer's Daughter Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Farmer's Daughter

original watercolor landscape w/figure: 8" x 11"

 oh my Sophie says...

I really love it when

BB takes me en plein air

there are vistas everywhere

lots to paint

a new landscape

and someday I think I’ll try

to sit still and paint the sky

or a bluebird on the wing

but for now I’ll play and swing

and let BB do her thing......

BB

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Cavorting Com-posers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Cavorting Com-posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 8" x 11"

Simple Girls

my sunflower girls

are simple and yet

the beauty they share

is simply the best

their petals, like bonnets,

are sun drenched and golden

it’s like someone spread 

sweet butter upon ‘em

they don’t like to squint

so they wear dark shades

but sunblock is not

their choice, they admit

they follow the sun

 from morning till night

then rest in their beds

until the day light

that’s how it’s been done

it’s simply their way

for all of their kin

and all of their days

BB'13

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