Sur la Plage
by RC DeWinter
Title
Sur la Plage
Artist
RC DeWinter
Medium
Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting
Description
Copyright 2014 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved
My recent visit to the sea filled a hole in my life that desperately needed filling. I had waded in calm surf, watched seabirds wheel and dive in a cloudless blue sky, and filled my lungs with air kissed with the tang of salt.
Unfortunately that rapture didn't last long. A couple of days later I was again missing the ocean. As I lay in the dark that night, I filled my mind with pictures of that blue water rolling gently into shore, wishing I still lived a stone's throw from the sea.
Eventually I tumbled into the land of dreams, and there I was, back at the beach, walking along the edge of the water in a late summer sunset. I was not alone, however. Vincent, pants rolled to the knees, barefoot, hatless, was walking alongside me.
"Hello, mon ami," I said. "Have you come to soak your soul in the song of the sea?"
"Yes," Vincent smiled. "And also to enjoy your company in a place where you are calm and happy, untroubled by the chaos that invades most of your days."
I returned his smile.
"Tired of my whining, are you? You have then indeed caught me at exactly the right spot. I don't know why, but when I am close to the water, all my worries are lifted and blown out to sea. But alas, like homing pigeons, once I am back in my normal environment they always come home to roost."
Vincent pointed to a jetty a little further down the shore. "Let us go there and sit awhile. We can listen to the waves and watch the gulls and simply be."
In a few minutes we had reached the jetty and arranged ourselves on the flattest, most comfortable-looking rocks. The only sounds were Nature's - the waves, the gulls, the whistle of air and water through the jetty. We sat, silent, looking out across the expanse of blue that from this perspective seemed to stretch on forever.
I think I must have fallen asleep in my dream, for next thing I knew Vincent had gotten up and was standing next to me.
"It has been a pleasure to sit with you," he said. "What a transformation in your face when you are relaxed...perhaps someday I shall paint you while you are at rest. Come, give me your hand, we'll go back."
He helped me up. The sun was almost gone, and the evening star hung in a smoky blue sky limned with the last golden rays. The birds had gone whenever it is they go in the evening and we walked accompanied only by the whisper of small waves meeting the shore.
When we arrived at the walkway that led away from the beach, Vincent turned to me.
"Take this with you - all of it" and here he spread his arms wide as if to gather up the sea, the sky, the stars. "It will always be here for you, ready to share its peace and beauty."
I nodded and waved as he turned up the walkway and melted into the night.
When I awoke I felt, for the first morning in months, fully rested. Now when the pressures of the everyday press heavy on my heart, I close my eyes and conjure up that quiet evening I spent on the shore, sleeping for a short while Vincent watched over me.
~ copyright 2014 RC deWinter
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