The Painter of Light

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light...Genesis 1:3.

It has snowed. The sun hasn't risen yet, but the ground is covered with soft white.  There's no wind blowing so it didn't feel like below freezing when I opened up the door a short time ago to look outside at the wonderland. 

But there is danger and deception in the snow.  Black ice.  It's beneath the snow. Deadly and silent, it lies, waiting.  I won't have to go out into it, but I think of those who will, friends and neighbors.  The temperature won't go above freezing today so what's there will be around through part of tomorrow.
 
What I see makes me think of the beautiful snow in the paintings by Mr. Thomas Kinkade.  He did such lovely snow-filled paintings.  There are others as well who paint in a similar way to Mr. Kinkade too.  I enjoy Mr. Kinkade's work because of the cottages he created on canvas.  Some of them are so beautiful. I love cottages, as you already know.  My computer wallpaper is of a country cottage inn painted by Mr. Kinkade (see image below). It's a summer scene with lots of lovely flowers and trees around the cottage-like inn.  I love looking at this painting with all the pastel colors in it.  I think that if I were a painter I would want to paint like Mr. Kinkade. 


I wonder where he got the inspiration to have drawn the cottages that he did?  They're different from one another in his paintings. Many of the cottages were given specific names by Mr. Kinkade.  He was called "the painter of light", by his friends because of the way he used illumination in his paintings.  The pastel colors he used were so bright and colorful and soft. 

God is a Painter of light too.  Look at all the lovely colors in the world around us, especially in Spring.  The colorful flowers make one feel happy to look at them. One feels alive again following the winter when it is dark most of the 24-hour day.  I'm so happy to see that the sunset hour is slowly moving back so that there is more daylight available. True, there's not a great amount of it yet, but it's on the way.  *smile*