You’re My Blue Sky

One of my favorite songs includes “You’re My Blue Sky” in it! It’s by the Allman Brothers and fits with today’s painting and our front yard activity too. I’ll share more in a sec but first I want to welcome new readers to this blog. And, while I’m at it, I’ll describe the purpose of the posts and blog here.

Small Spaces Special Places

Welcome new readers! Each year, I select a theme for my weekly paintings. This year’s is “Small Spaces Special Places.” Why? I have been surprised, even delighted, with the small spaces in our house that have captured my eye.

Also, there are the special places I see on my daily dog walks. Each morning, rain or shine, I love getting outdoors and looking for things to paint. Sometimes, we venture on the road and I share paintings of special places from these trips, too.

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Eat A Peach For Peace

What? Actually, “Eat A Peach For Peace” is the name of the song by the Allman Brothers. That’s a whole other story. But for today I’ll share the lyrics to this song and why it is the name of this week’s blog post and painting:

Eat A Peach For Peace

Dickey Betts wrote this about his Native American girlfriend, Sandy “Bluesky” Wabegijig.

Walk along the river, sweet lullaby, it just keeps on flowing,
It don’t worry ’bout where it’s going, no, no.
Don’t fly, mister blue bird, I’m just walking down the road,
Early morning sunshine tell me all I need to know

You’re my blue sky, you’re my sunny day.
Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,
Turn your love my way, yeah.

Good old sunday morning, bells are ringing everywhere.
Goin to carolina, it won’t be long and I’ll be there

You’re my blue sky, you’re my sunny day.
Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way,
Turn your love my way, yeah, yeah, yeah

Pretty sure this song came out around 1972 when I was in high school or so. It’s such a friendly, toe-tapping, upbeat song and the guitar licks from Duane Allman? Let’s just say “OMG” ;-D But my little fig painting prompted me to think of this song. Here it is.

The fig is floating in the sky here. And, lately, floating and ways to paint floating objects has been on my mind. And as I painted the fig and it’s blue sky, I couldn’t help but remember the line “You’re my blue sky.” Ahhhh! Music of the high school years certainly has staying power doesn’t it? And, I just love that the lyrics mention two other favorites in my world: Bluebirds and Carolina.

Bluebird update

Speaking of bluebirds, ours are just getting ready to fledge. This also contributed to my mind thinking of blue skies. Why? The male bluebird always gently calls out to his brood to encourage them to fledge. He and the female bluebird have been feeding the four little ones like crazy these last few days. Here’s a photo from today of the male delivering some yummy soft bugs to his family:

As soon as the male bluebird flies away, a little head appears in opening! It’s so exciting to write this post with the possibility of actually seeing the four fledglings leave the box. OOPs – never mind, little fledglings are still in the box for now. Good thing actually. I can hear the juvenile hawk calling outside too. Yipes!!!

Back to the topic at hand

Let’s just say this painting of a flying fig is intended to send you good and happy vibes. As I painted the last few touches of this painting, I could hear the bluebirds calling. And, the temperature and air are both cool enough to have the windows open, too. When I think about it, there’s not much more a painter or person could ask for, don’t you think?

Yes this painting is for sale. Here’s the page with the link to Paypal in it (and a bonus painting for sale, too!)

What’s your blue sky

How about you gentle reader? What’s your version of a blue sky? I would love to hear so please share in the comments below. Thank you!