A peaceful place

[JanieDriver]

I have gone here many times in my mind to find peace and courage.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/JanieCallanan/Art/Thecreeksgolfcourse.jpg

[joy]

Hi Janie

That is beautiful. Is it oil painting or? watercolor what? It is peaceful.

[AllUpInMyHead]

oooh, that is really pretty. Sounds like a place I'd like to relax in, too.

Where is it? I'm not asking for a specific city, but just more if it's in a park, out in nature, etc. Or if you just imagined the scene in your mind.

The weather where I live just cooled down (we had a couple weeks of abnormally high temperatures exceeding 92F/35C, and my peripheral demyelination makes me not get along with heat), so I'll have to go out and find a scene like that. We don't have many trees in my part of the area (the suburbs, since they were all built on corn and bean fields), but the big city has a lot of beautiful parks with old-growth forests and reservoirs/lakes, so I'll have to check it out.

I used to be a decent acrylic and canvas painter, though my parkinsonian tremor has gotten worse now and might get in the way if I tried to paint again. If I am able to capture the scene, I'll bring it here. :-) or I'll just take a photo, heh.

[EDIT: Before gas prices skyrocked here in the States, I used to take short leisurely drives in the countryside as a form of meditation. Here is a picture taken a couple years ago, showing the beautiful nearby horse farms that were built on cropfields 50 years ago: http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1323116982056750208KrYZkX

(n.B. - I am VERY upset that those beautiful rolling grass meadows got replaced a couple months ago by a subdivision of million-dollar homes. At least there are many more of these farms further out from civilization here.) ]

[JanieDriver]

All...that is a beautiful road and scenery. If you went there in your mind where would you sit? Would other people be there sometimes?

My picture is a watercolor. It is not a real place but one I travel to when I need to bring some peace to my soul. Sometimes I sit down where the land juts out into the water on the left side and put my feet in the water. Little fishes tickle my feet. Sometimes I sit in that shady spot on the right with a strong person, someone who can hold me up awhile and handle everything. I think the places are right across from eachother so I never lose sight of the other place.

[AllUpInMyHead]

All...that is a beautiful road and scenery. If you went there in your mind where would you sit? Would other people be there sometimes?

My picture is a watercolor. It is not a real place but one I travel to when I need to bring some peace to my soul. Sometimes I sit down where the land juts out into the water on the left side and put my feet in the water. Little fishes tickle my feet. Sometimes I sit in that shady spot on the right with a strong person, someone who can hold me up awhile and handle everything. I think the places are right across from eachother so I never lose sight of the other place.

I am glad you like the scenery. When people tell me that central Indiana is ugly and/or boring, I show them those pictures. And they were actually taken before the trees even sprouted their leaves (the scenes look even more beautiful in the summer... and suffices to say, autumn!). Unfortunately though, that particular scene you saw now consists of million-dollar homes.

If I were to be back in that scene, my #1 preferable position would be driving through it. :) (again). The speed limit on that road used to be 50MPH (80KPH), which of course is entirely too fast, not just for the risk of missing the scenery, but also for the risk of sending your car flying into the air whilst driving over the next rise.

I think it'd be nice to just find a patch of grass in the shade by the fence, and lie back and enjoy the breeze (until the temperatures decide to suddenly go to 95 or 20, as they do rather often). If I were with someone else, an area like that would probably predispose me to romance... perhaps having a picnic with a girl I love...

That's all fine and dandy until we end up spooking a horse and ruining the scene, anyways.

[The Dude]

Very pretty :)

[Ponygirl]

Reminds me of something, my favorite artist, Thomas Kinkade,
would do!:)

Phyllis