The Happiness of Expression

I think often of Monet.  How he allowed his brush to defy the rules of what was the painting establishment of Paris, and did so because of compulsion to express rather than intention to be negative.

Monet painted because he had to.  He saw beauty and life in what was around him and he wanted to express what he saw and felt in what he considered to be its truest form.

I came upon this scene by making a wrong turn out of disappointment, and then making a k-turn to go back.  The day I took this shot, I was chasing another one - one that I didn't get.  But, it was here that I found a field of poppies alongside a road behind the Chateau de Chennonceaux in France.  I turned my car around to go back to snap this frame because I had to.

Please join me at the Corn Hill Festival on July 9 & 10 to share this and other images that I had to have and hold and share.

 I've got friends who seem to 'think' in video. They are able to make an entire story in motion. I'm not so successful. But this expression, that face at the end. That is some serious content. Capturing something keeps me happy. Are you always camera in hand? Paint brush? Pen and paper? ~Beth