Tiger Swallowtail Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 10 x 20 inches
When I try to sum up our trip to the USA, I am stymied: it is always wonderful, a little sad,
fabulously successful and hard to leave behind. Although it takes me a week or so to get
used to being “home”, it takes that much time to adjust to being back (home,
too, I guess—which is which?). When Blair
wanted to look at places to live in the US six months a year, I told him “I can’t
live in two places.”
I loved the long
conversations in which I understood not only the language, but the cultural
vocabulary that provoked them. I discovered that I missed some current
lingo: I shouldn’t be using the word exceptional,
except to describe disabled children; special hasn’t been a legitimate
description for some time. I hung on every word, regardless of
philosophical or political opinion. I
love that I can do that – coming from afar I lay no claim to any political
party, and can like everyone. I think it
is sad that people line up on a side (I can see you cringing as you read this). I see things as an outsider now, readily
uncovering the economic motivations for most political decisions.
From the Badminton Court Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 16 x 20
We drove our Prius (gas economy is all I can say) over 3,600
miles while we were there. It was
impossible to walk anyplace on account of lack of sidewalks and other
cars. I swam a lot. I loved jumping into the very cool water and
being weightless (helping me to forget the pounds I put on while I was there). We ate lobsters and corn, hot dogs and
nachos.
We were in the country with bears and bobcats, skunks and
bats. In the lake there were fish, which
would come right up and check me out if I stood still long enough. I watched the birds pick bugs out of
automobile grills, like a barbecue.
Harika rolled in the grass in Connecticut and Virginia; she ate
meatballs and cold cuts.
Harika Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic/canvas 12 x 12
We have a new gallery, “J Gallery” in North Carolina, and
left more paintings with the Riverfront Gallery in Westport, Connecticut. Our show at the String and Splinter in High
Point was a big success.
Our first few days back in Paris were hot and sultry,
followed by intermittent rainstorms on Friday’s painting workshop. Our painter (just one) braved the elements
with us, and we produced a few canvases.
It felt very good to be back at painting again.
Chair in the Luxembourg Gardens Blair Pessemier Oil on canvas 15.5 x 18
I made dinner last night for American friends, one who lives
here, and another who used to. We played
Quiddler using our new battery-powered card shuffler from the US. My
tomatoes are ripening on the vine, well-tended by friends J and M in our
absence. My first one is almost ready to
pick. No deer on the sixth
floor balcony.
Butterfly impression Laurie Fox Pessemier Acrylic on canvas 16x 20
Early AM on the Lake Laurie Fox Pessemier 11 x 14
Butterfly three Laurie Fox Pessemier 16 x 20
Under Umbrellas Laurie Fox Pessemier 10 x 12.5 inches
Burr Pond Trees 2013 Laurie Fox Pessemier 16 x 20
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