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Title: Waiting at the Bridge (Homage de Fuzza Wuzza with Reference to The Rainbow Bridge)
Size: 16″x20″
Medium: Winsor & Newton acrylics on canvas board
Completed: November 15, 2006 4:42 am

There it is … last night’s two hour painting. It looks like nothing I have ever painted before. Lin said “That’s why it’s good.” Normally I’d pop him up side the head for a comment like that, but I’m still feeling puny from being under the weather stomach-wise. Lucky him. He may be onto something though. My old ways weren’t doing it for me anymore, and I think that was coming through in the paintings making them feel lifeless and bland (at least to me). Hopefully I am over my slump once and for all. It sure feels like it. All I want to do is paint, and the lack of fresh canvases is grating on my nerves. I’m starting to eye some of the unfinished works with an eye to just painting over them, and I may just do that if it looks like there will be no new canvases today (which likely there won’t be).

The Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together…

Author Unknown