july 4th in greenpoint

colombia lost to brazil, it rained, cleared and turned into a streaky sunset, fireworks came from 4 or 5 different places but were too far away to hear.

from Madame Bovary

"As for Emma, she never once questioned herself to see if she loved him. Love, she believed, had to come, suddenly, with a great clap of thunder and a lightning flash, a tempest from heaven that falls upon your life, like a devastation, scatters your ideals like leaves and hurls your very soul into the abyss. Little did she know that up on the roof of the house, the rain will form a pool if the gutters are blocked, and there she would have stayed feeling safe inside, until one day she suddenly discovered the crack right down the wall."

-- from Madame Bovary, Flaubert (trans. Wall)

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 2010

Podere Campriano, 2013

Durham, NC, 2008

A photo and a story

We were working on landscape paintings when a heavy rain began. You can actually keep painting in the rain, if you're using oil paint, but to apply the paint to the canvas you have to push hard to get through the film of water.