TODAY'S PAINTING---YUCCA

Today's Painting---Yucca---acrylic on stretched canvas -€120---24x24 inches.

I love to paint the yucca plant. There's just something about its smooth lines, deep colours, and simplicity that attract me to it. There's a quiet strength there,--maybe a subtle touch of the exotic. Anyway I always like to have one or two of them around,--there's a sense of peace there.

Also a healing plant, the yucca can help all sorts of ailments:- Arthritis, rheumatics, cholesterol, high blood pressure, digestive problems, etc.--- An ancient healer!

The tree is more than a first seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, then dead timber.---The tree is a slow enduring force straining to reach the sky.

Antoine de Saint -Exupery.--The Wisdom of the Sands.

Translation--Stuart Gilbert.