This painting is the first landscape that I can remember painting. When I took the photo that is the subject for this painting, I was laying on the walking path around one of several ponds that surround the French Senate. This garden will be a part of me forever, and the space is one of comfort, and wellness for everyone who chooses to pass through it. As you walk around the park, you will see all of the stone sculptures of the patron Saints that overlook the gardens and ponds where the children laugh, play and float their boats. I felt peaceful there in the Jardin du Luxembourg. Everything from the sound of the gravel crunching under my feet to the often turbulent winds that move the clouds that cast shadows over me in the garden. As I step through the walkways my mind wonders to the hectic pace of the outside, but I am immediately drawn back into the garden. I stare into the sky and see only the outlining shape of this lady looking into the beyond. She seems to float atop of the blooms of the season. I am lost in her thoughts and want her to forever walk on flowers and ascend into the sky to meet with her hopes and dreams.
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