Take It Further February

This month's challenge from Sharon B includes the palette above and asks the question : 'What are you old enough to remember"? I had an intitial reaction to this - and that was the colors in the Woodstock poster .... I was a genteel hippy I suppose and , althouygh I did go to Woodstock, I found that it was too dirty and so I soon wended my way to a hotel for a hot bath & room service! I know how prissy that sounds - but I have never been too fond of dirt!



My mother's second husband was an artist -a very good one - and I had the use of a myriad of art products, paints, paper, brushes, pens etc, that I would never have beena able to find in my Father's conservative home. I am grateful for those supplies - as they led me through a circuitous route to creativity - from art to career and back to art again with a huge sigh of relief that I could leave the career suits behind me.



My Grandmother had a lovely home on the Hudson River. It had a coal fired furnace, a hand pump at the kitchen sink and an outhouse. I lived there by myself for some time and learned that, although it heats well, coal (as well as wood) warms you twice!