Happy Valentine's Day from the Bluebird
Acrylic on canvas
8 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir © 2014
In our house Valentine's Day is huge. We decorate, wetalk about our favorite food, we eat more chocolate
than is at all wise, and in recent years I do a painting
for my own cards. I love the idea of celebrating love.
That force for good is an incredible power, and I
can't thank my family and friends who love me enough
for the kindness, encouragement and wonder they've
brought into my life. And I thank them for giving me
the pleasure of loving them.
This painting is of a Bluebird. I have only ever seen
one once, and it was quite magical. This fall the
week after my mother died, one of my girlfriends
took me walking, as her way of helping me
recover. We talked about nothing, or we talked
about her dog (Steven and I didn't have our dog
Sally then), and as we headed up the hill in the
park one day we saw the brightest blue in one of the bare
trees. Up close we realized it was a bluebird, and
I felt like I'd been given a gift from the bird, the
universe, maybe even my mother, who did teach
me to feel wonder.
Here's my latest Valentine painting, and some of
the fun I've had making designs with my painting
and a painting of tulips I sold last year called
And then we were seven.
I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day and
weekend with the people you love, doing whatever
you love to do.
Have an enjoying-everything-about-your day day.
