A Much Beloved Painting
Garden at Saint-Adresse, also known as La Terrasse à Saint-Adresse, by Claude Monet, 1867
As I approach my seventy-seventh birthday (!!), I find myself increasingly frustrated by the inability to make time stop. Yes, to stop in its tracks. To cease, desist, quit robbing others and myself of our ability, vitality, and just plain life force. We know where we are headed, inexorably.
There is one way to stop time. From the beginning of the world, image makers have known this. You will pass, but the image will remain. Thank God – literally – for this.
It is the gift given to us by the arts of painting and photography. The Garden at Saint-Adresse is one of my favorite paintings because it fixes in time a moment of supreme happiness. The people, the sun,the wind, the flowers, the sea – all there, bathed in golden light, forever.
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CAROL HUTTON said,
April 6, 2021 at 9:45 pm
I love this too. Such a beautiful, serene , place.
Terra said,
May 12, 2021 at 11:36 pm
That is a heavenly moment captured for us. I am close to you in age, and time is rushing by for me.