Colour Purple

" I think it annoys God if you walk by the colour purple in a field and don't notice." ~ Alice Walker, from The Colour Purple

We noticed, and remembered much later....

Gold Leaves

“Gold Leaves” by G K Chesterton

Lo! I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold;
Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out
The year and I are old.
In youth I sought the prince of men,
Captain in cosmic wars,
Our Titan, even the weeds would show
Defiant, to the stars.
But now a great thing in the street
Seems any human nod,
Where shift in strange democracy
The million masks of God.
In youth I sought the golden flower
Hidden in wood or wold,
But I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold.

That's how the last painting came into being.

A bird sings because it has a song

“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” - Maya Angelou.