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Beautiful Home for the Holidays…

13 Monday Dec 2010

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Christmas, Lawren Harris

© Lawren Harris

I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents under the tree
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love light beams
I’ll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams.
Buck Ram

As I gazed at my friend’s Christmas tree laden with presents last night, a wave of sentimentality swept over me.

When I lived in Boston, my parents campaigned vigorously each year for my young family to visit at Christmas. The ten-hour drive to Toronto was always fraught with danger in December, particularly around Buffalo, where we often encountered terrible snowstorms. Despite our protestations to stay in the safety and comfort of our own home, my parents, then in their fifties, would tag on our heartstrings by saying, “this may be our last Christmas,” followed by some grizzly tale about a friend or relative who had met with an untimely death just months earlier.

We always resolved to have Christmas in our own home, but caved at the last minute and made the drive to celebrate with them. This modus operandi continued for over two decades, and for my children, Christmases have been associated with their grandparents’ hearth and home.

For the first time, we are not going to be spending Christmas with my parents as they moved into an independent living facility this week after months and months of deliberation and heartbreak. Christmas, as life, will go on – just a little differently this year.

Beautiful Snow…

11 Saturday Dec 2010

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Art, Canadian Art, First snowfall, Group of Seven, Lawren Harris

© Lawren Harris

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. – Henry David Thoreau

The first snowfall of the year is always magical.

Beautiful Aspens & Birches…

18 Thursday Nov 2010

Posted by stanfordblog in Art, Photography

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Algonquin Park, Aspens, Birches, Independence Pass, Lawren Harris, Photography

© Joan Currie

Throughout history forests and trees have been places of refuge and retreats from the world where one goes to renew one’s self. There is also a sense of steadfastness that comes from tall tress that will stand the storms that will circle around them. – Sotheby’s catalog

Lawren Harris’s painting, Algonquin Birches, will be offered at Sotheby’s sale of Important Canadian Art on November 23, 2010. It is estimated that Harris, one of the Group of Seven, probably painted this work around 1914 in Algonquin Park about 137 miles north of Toronto, Canada. His color palette of sky blue, mustard yellow, white, purple, dark green and red is stunning.

The birches in Harris’ painting remind me of the smaller and less sturdy aspens that I photographed on a drive through Independence Pass en route to Aspen, Colorado.

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