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'Palace Pup' depicts a day out on Brighton pier and prom. The artists both create public art to be sold at auctions in order to raise money for charities. Maria is a prop maker and Patricia is an artist animator.
This young seal pup was paddling around the shallow bay at Tower Point. No sign of Mom - hopefully not far away.
pup, 4x4", acrylic/graphite on panel
8 new, tiny paintings for the 11th installment of Enormous Tiny Art Show at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH.
More info:
jenniferdavisart.blogspot.com/2012/01/enormous-tiny-art-s...
Normally I plan ahead, but this was mostly a fly by the seat of the pants trip. Hwy 1 along the Pacific Coast had a surprise in store for me (my husband apparently knew about it). The end of January and beginning of February activity at the San Simeon elephant seal rookery was at its noisy peak. Mothers defending their spots in their middle sized voices, pups squealing to be fed in their higher pitched voices, the alpha bull roaring just off shore with a few beta males banished nearby, all made a tremendous racket. For about seven miles, every sandy beach was covered with mothers and pups. Each beach had a bull waiting for the females to come into estrus at the end of the feeding period of about a month. During the entire stay, about 3 months for the bulls, the adults do not eat or drink anything. Most lose about half their body weight.
See the e-sealcam at www.elephantseal.org
Pup separated a day ago with no wilt.
The plant will be repotted with almost no roots being disturbed .
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Although lacking a date, at least this photo has some writing on the back:
"This is Mom & Pop being busy working the garden as usual. It's taken from a distance that's why you can't see them very well."
By the time we (the great-grandchildren) came along, "Mom & Pop" became "Baba & Pup". I have so many fond memories of them I don't know where to begin.
They didn't speak English very well. They were Polish immigrants who came to America when they were first married at age 19. Baba could understand a little bit of what we said, or at least she faked it well enough. "Oy vay!", she'd say. But Pup would speak to us in his own language and laugh like he said the most clever thing. He'd give each one of us great-grandchildren a silver .50 cent piece every Sunday when we'd visit. We'd always give him a hug and a kiss as thanks and I can remember that he always had scratchy stubble on his face. He died when I was a teenager and I recall my Baba throwing herself on his casket at the church screaming, "My man! My man!".
Baba was always good for a pack of Juicy Fruit gum. She'd hide it in her vast apron pockets and she'd give it away like she grew it on her own Juicy Fruit tree. This woman made the BEST pierogies that I have ever had. Every Sunday, we'd go to Baba & Pup's for homemade pierogies and Juicy Fruit gum and silver .50 cent pieces. They didn't have much, but it was something I looked forward to every week.
When Pup died, the house was sold and she went to live with my Gram in the first floor bedroom. I'd go visit her and we'd sit on the edge of her bed, talking. Baba made me promise never to ride a motorcycle, a promise I kept for a long time. I was a senior in high school when she died and I took it pretty hard. She grew peonies in her yard and would cut them for us to take home. I always associate the fragrance of peonies with Baba.
She is the reason I have them growing along my yard. When Spring comes and I smell the heavy perfume of those peonies, I think of Baba and her Juicy Fruit gum.