The Passing Storm, and - The Sea Of Grass

                                        
                                        An original acrylics painting, on stretched canvas
                                        18 X 24", unframed

                                      ( This painting is now on view at the Buttonwood Art Space.)
                                                             ( click on image to enlarge )                                      

     Some viewers of this scene, of rain-soaked, prairie grass-lands, may see it as the 

depiction of clearing skies and brighter days ahead, while others may see it as rough 

weather developing, and dark days ahead.  Perhaps that serves as an appropriate 

metaphor for what is happening in our stormy, political climate these days.  Many of us 

are wishing that the disastrous storms would go away, but we know that they will not 

go peacefully.

     During our last national elections, one nominee proclaimed that he would "drain the

swamp", but as it turned out, he took the swamp with him, to Washington.  We all 

depend on the United States government, to look after the safety and health of all our

citizens, but the man who was chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency, 

had gone to the capitol, specifically to destroy that agency.  That disgusting man was

finally forced from office, when his habits of using public funds for his personal self-

aggrandizement were revealed, but not before he had done a lot of what he set out

to do.  

     Now we hear that he changed the ruling against the further use of a powerfully 

toxic insecticide, in this country, so that Dow Chemical can now continue to increase 

its billions in profits, by spraying the nations orchards with their poisons.  We can all

agree that all insecticides are poisons, but what we disagree about is the amount of

such poisons we are able to take into our systems every day, without doing any

significant damage to our nervous systems.  The poison in question is the original, 

powerful ingredient in the spray known as Raid.  After that poison was banned 

from home use, because of probable hazard to our health, Dow had to eliminate

that poison from the formula in their home products.  But now they get to continue

spraying the country's orchards with that poison. 

     So now, for the foreseeable future, it seems that we will continue to serve 

our children their fruit with Raid sauce.  

     And the storm clouds will continue to darken each day.  .