Original Still Life of Winter Squash by Cheryl Ratcliff

"The Beauty of Harvest"

Oil on canvas panel

8"x10"

$80.00

I just got a new job working as a reading paraprofessional in my local school district. I love the job, but it is now a challenge to find enough time for painting. I fit it in here and there when I can.

Original Oil Landscape of Road Through Rolling Hills

" The Journey"

Oil on canvas panel

8"x10"

$80.00

"You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.

You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scatered the stars into space.

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?

And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, emcompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor for love deeds to other love deeds?

And is not time even as love is, undivideded and spaceless?

But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,

And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."

Excerpt from The prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Original Oil Painting Plein Air Landscape of Purple Flowers and Fields by Cheryl Ratcliff

"In The Moment"

Oil on canvas panel

8"x10"

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Rabindranath Tagore