Limelights on my friends

Girls Hockey Tournament

February 12, 2019 By Barbara Grant

Warning: do not try to focus on these pictures. It can’t be done; they are super blurry from zooming in to get closeups behind a plexiglass safety barrier.

Girls Hockey — My first try using an app called FotoJet Collage Maker Light
(impatiently sticking together a hodgepodge of hockey “gestures”)

And there were other little girls out there skating besides #33, doing their best to protect the puck, assist and score. But she’s my granddaughter, the one my eyes followed throughout the game.

My favorite photo from this day immersed in the world of girls hockey is of Bella skating off the ice toward Coach Daddy who’s grinning from ear to ear 🙂

Here she is modeling the heart-shaped fruit of a Japanese Climbing Cucumber plant that grows in a pot on her porch. I am lucky that our friendship has continued through the years, and that she enjoys posing for me now and then.

I first met Peggy in an exercise class over 10 years ago. After we’d gotten to know each other well enough, I asked if she would pose for a painting I was working on. It was her profile that I wanted to copy: straight nose, high cheek bones, long neck.

She enjoyed sitting for me, and after that experience went on to do more modeling for our nearby college art department. She is such a wonderful model, because she can stick a pose and hold it until the timer goes off. (Artists tend to lose track of time when engrossed, so a wise model utilizes a clock.)

I believe it is Peggy’s yoga practice and knowing her own body that help her settle into long poses. She is able to meditate or become lost in thought, even as she is aware of the the bustling of artists at work: the scratch of drawing tools, creak of easels and stools, sigh of exasperation!

She stays cool as a cucumber ~ ~ ~

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