Welcome to my new website. I’m starting this blog to find others who may experience the Divine through nature. As a person of faith and as an artist, my favorite way to respond to nature is through art. Next to simply being outside, I love to paint and draw outdoors.
My congregation at First Congregational Church UCC in Moline, Illinois has offered me a sabbatical for this summer for the purpose of rest and renewal. They are also sending me out with a wonderful list of places to paint–places where they have experienced God. I’m keeping a running list viewable under “Places List” near the top of the screen.
I may not be able to hit all of the nature sites in two months, but I plan to visit many of them to paint and draw. I will keep you posted right here. How do you experience the Spirit in nature? Please share your thoughts. I’m preparing to be amazed!
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I thought I would try this out after hearing about it again today. I like the images so far and am looking forward to more in the future.
Thanks for visiting. This is my first website/blog, so I’m learning how the posts and replies work. I feel like someone just threw me the keys to my first visual mobile home and I have gobs to learn before I am tooling down the highway. But with your comment (my first one), it feels like I have backed out of the driveway!
If you get down to Southern Illinois, don’t forget to visit Superman in Metropolis. I will send you a picture to inspire you by e-mail.
Thanks. I had to google “Superman in Metropolis, IL”. Looks like lots of activities in the second week of June in Metropolis. I will put this on my list!
Excited to follow your adventures…I opened a blog in January, but have yet to post anything to it, all these months later. You’re an inspiration.
Thanks, Jeanne! What is your blog address? I’d like to visit.
Who wouldn’t be amazed at nature. To see the dew drops on a huge spider web in the morning causing it to shine like diamonds in the sunshine and accentuating the individual spider’s artistic design, to driving through a prism (yes literally driving through a rainbow) in Napa. to listen to the sounds of the birds, or touching the velvety softness of a flower petal, breathing in the freshness of the cool, crisp morning air or the clean after a rain fall, to tasting the flavor of a tomato just picked from its vine – all flood the senses with the Divine. The awe of the Divine. To be able to capture these and more is such a gift from the Divine. The artist is a gift as well from the Divine. Thank you! God/Goddess is Peace, Light, Love and so are you. Carol D.
Thanks, Carol, I agree that nature is a “flood to the senses with the Divine” as you describe…a Divine flood.