NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 25, a Poem, Desert Art; or Exotic River Rocks

Desert Art;

 or Exotic River Rocks

 

Some like desert art,
hanging on their walls
 
The desert is nice
pretty to look at
But try living there
El Paso desert
 
five long dry hot years 
It'll grow on you?
Not so very much
Wall adornment's fine

 

Or take mountains' cool
In their streams you find
 
Nuggets to treasure
or a large jade rock
Green in the water
Matches trees on hills
 
When it dries at home
Door stop memories
Pale green to polish
another day that  
 
It may shine like jade
Jade it held within
Exotic memories
you savor, cherish


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 - Photos and Poem Copyright © 2014, 2017 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 - Photos: (they are mine, copied from my computer screen as referenced below)

Top: 
California Desert Art
Night Fires
By Agnes Pelton
http://www.californiadesertart.com/?p=226

Middle: Painting by Agnes Pelton
(Green Gems photo from Google) (link)

Bottom:  Photo by this Author, Jimmiehov, 2014
"Rocks know and some I don't"
http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2014/03/rocks-i-know-and.html

Here: (Agnes Pelton's Studio photo)
Agnes Pelton Revival in Cathedral City
http://www.californiadesertart.com/?p=1018

 An additional link I found interesting, written by a collector of Agnes Pelton's work (with some pictures):
Bidding on Agnes Pelton
California Desert Art (link, same as below)
http://www.californiadesertart.com/?p=2323

Agnes Pelton work copied and displayed here as Fair Use Principles:

➮It is a historically significant artwork
➮The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes
➮The image is readily available on the internet
➮The image is a low resolution copy of the original artwork and is unsuitable for commercial use

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 - I'm linked with  Kerry O'Connor at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, “AThe Tuesday Platform , http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-tuesday-platform_25.html 

  --- - - and     - also to Day Twenty-five of NaPoWriMo,  http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-3/

  - The instructions from Kerry O'Connor:  "The artist I am featuring today is Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961). To visit the WikiArt gallery of some of her paintings, click HERE. ... "
 - I lived in El Paso, Texas, in the late 50's and early 60's while in the U.S. Army.  The city was smaller then, Juarez was friendly, it actually did grow on me.  The saying is that it will take two years for a person to like it.  Four of or five kids were born there.
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