A Poem & A Painting: Umbrellas at the Tides Inn

I just returned from the BEST vacation with my family!  Re-entry back into the “real world” is hard, but I am feeling so blessed and thankful for our time together at Goose Rocks Beach in Maine.  Today’s painting is fresh off the easel, painted this morning, and the poem is one I’ve always loved.

Feeling appreciative for Summer, family, and life…

Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; 
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 

Umbrellas at the Tides Inn by Pamela Copeman

I hope your week is off to a wonderful start!

xo,

Pamela

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