– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Copyright Beth Parker Art 2012
It’s not that I didn’t like the house as it appeared in the photo by Lisilk at WetCanvas. I did. It was white (of course) and had green shutters, Christmas lights, and a lot of stuff in the yard. First, I took down the lights and cleaned up the yard. Then (and this is where I seem to have veered of the Bahamian path) I decided to play with my Yarka St. Petersburg Watercolors. The set I have is very Cape Cod colored, if that makes any sense. So the colors kinda went awry, but it was still very fun!! Oh, the grass is not painted from that set, so it has a different hue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803, son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was named after his mother’s brother Ralph and the father’s great-grandmother Rebecca Waldo. Ralph Waldo was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood; the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles. Three other children—Phebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline–died in childhood.
The young Ralph Waldo Emerson’s father died from stomach cancer on May 12, 1811, less than two weeks before Emerson’s eighth birthday. Emerson was raised by his mother, with the help of the other women in the family; his aunt Mary Moody Emerson in particular had a profound effect on Emerson. She lived with the family off and on, and maintained a constant correspondence with Emerson until her death in 1863. More…
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