The bramble leaves are now offering some interesting color changes. This past summer we were able to reach among the thorny stems to find some plump blackberries. Here are three tiny, 4” x 4” gouache paintings of some bramble leaves.
I’ve chosen a snippet of a poem to accompany these paintings.
This is the last bit of Wendell Berry’s poem called, Grace.
“Again I resume the long
lesson: how small a thing
can be pleasing, how little
in this hard world it takes
to satisfy the mind
and bring it to it’s rest.”
