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Fishwrapper
It is written that prose are based on, "Ordinary Speech." If you will, a prose is just a way to place ordinary words in proper order, were most readers can comprehend their meaning. When the extraordinary resolution of the most common spoken word is used, outside of the structured prose, well you have, "Barry's Fishwrapper." |
| Date Line: 28 July 2010, Lostin, Florida.
"The Truth Be Known About the Comings and Goings Along Buck's Trail." 
If you want the truth about the comings and goings along Buck's Trail watch the dog of the one about to tell that same old worn-out tale. Stop playing checkers. Lean back in the rocking chair and wait a spell as you keep an eye on story teller's hound. When you hear the words, "Why I can hardly believe it myself …" See if the teller's ragged ear hound gives out a mournful moan, as it rolls over on its back, covers its blue nose with both paws and passes gas. Then you know for sure, you're about to be told that which may never have happened before, or rather nothing like the tall tale was originally told. So hear goes, "Why I can hardly believe it myself … Now I saw this happen when that coon stood up on its back feet and sure as I am sitting right here, I tell you that old boar coon done went and …" (This is the part were my dog rolls over on its back and lets out a mornful moan.) Copyright Barry Barnett 2010 |
Dateline: 19 July 2010, The Bears of Buck's
Trail, Astor, Florida
As an artist I have been asked many times what I use for painting reference. My answer is simple, "Life." More so the answer should be, "One has to learn to think like his subject." One never paints a palm tree. Instead an artist should paint the wind in the palm tree. Yesterday, along Buck's Trail, I looked for bear sign. Most often I am not disappointed. One bay tree showed the wounds of bark ripped from its trunk as high as I could reach. For many years I have watched the Florida black bear act out their behavior traits. Now my brush strokes are capturing the Florida black bear's playful antics and lightning fast battles. I see more than paws and claws. I feel the spirit of the black bear. Maybe that is part of my heritage. Or is it the result of the artist's eye. Everyday I work along Buck's Trail; I never feel alone. Something in the shadows or high in the trees is always watching. When asked again, "What do you use for reference?" Maybe my answer should be, "The blessing God gives me as I walk among the bears of "Buck's Trail." Copyright Barry Barnett 2010 |
Dateline: 19 July 2010, Barry Barnett
Artist/Gallery, Astor, Florida
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Dateline: 03 July 2010, Buck's Lodge, Astor,
Florida
This morning a coon crossed past the end of a culvert that had been blown-out by a tropical storm. Today's task was to continue digging, coon or no coon, down about four feet and find the damage to this forty year old culvert. What I did not expect was to be joined by a gator. There is a saying, "It is hard to remember one's task is to drain the swamp, when one is up to their ____ in alligators. Maybe the better judgment was made by the coon. For me there was no choice but to keep digging. Besides it was just one gator. My mind was not on the gator I could see, but the cottonmouth, rattlesnake and panther I could not see. "The Florida Black Bear," you may ask? Well they do not bother me and I do not trouble them. "Wonder where that coon went," I ask ed myself as I kept an eye on that gator. Next week, more digging 'til the job is done. ... Gator or No Gator ... 
Copyright Barry Barnett 2010 |
Dateline: February 2009, Painter, Buck's Trail,
Astor, Florida
The good folk of Salt Springs say a panther was hunting west of Yellow Bluff. Another saw a panther in Astor were the big piney ends near the Saint Johns River. Just remember come a next winter evening, when all gets quit and the dogs stand and turn toward the pines. It just maybe time to leave the comfort of the rocking chair there on the front porch and seek the warmth of a good fire inside. The dogs sure won't mind a bit. 
Copyright Barry Barnett 2010 |
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