Blue Ridge Healing Waters near The Blue Ridge Parkway and Anticipation!

My Artwork

Lion Explosion   Original 20"x16" Oil Painting    $670

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Eagle Fire  Original 16"x20"  Oil Painting    $670

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieN28aLojSA

I am real excited about my next series of paintings!  I am going to do a number of large paintings of Pawleys Island including some sunset over the ocean scenes!  It has been a while since I did a shore scene so I am looking forward to these new works.

I am going to do one more Kendall Expression painting and then get started.  I have had a great time working on my own brand of Expressionism but I am anxious to get back to my own personal Impressionistic style. I really do live to paint and I love to find homes for my creations!  I just mailed Small Flowers to a great Texas patron!

Here are two of my favorite Kendall Expressions paintings and the Youtube video I did on a number of them.  I need to get back to making videos!  I will soon!

 

Blue Ridge Healing Waters

The Cherokees have a tradition about healing waters in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  According to legend there is a mysterious lake high up in the Smoky Blue Ridge mountains that all animals are aware of and trust to cure their wounds.

It is said that whenever a black bear is wounded by hunters it will go this lake and swim from one shore to the other and then be healed as soon as it reaches the other side.

Healing waters are a part of legends and myths of many cultures.  Perhaps that is where we get the myth for the Fountain of Youth.

Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

I wanted to again mention the newest Blue Ridge Discovery Center happening that starts tomorrow!

BRDC Day at Independence Farmers Market

Fri, May 30, 9:30am – 12:30pm

Where	Intersection of 21 and 58, Independence, VA map
Calendar	BRDC Web Calendar
Created by	scott@blueridgediscoverycenter.org
Description	Kids programs will be provided on site.

Mountain Folk Tale near The Blue Ridge Parkway and Blue Ridge Discovery Center Happennings!

My Artwork

Blue Ridge Pasture    Original 12"x16" Oil Painting    $384

Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at   KENDALL KESSLER ART

Color Flow  Original Oil Painting has been Sold

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Dusk on The Little River      Original 30"x40" Oil Painting     $2425

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Preacher Tale

I'm sure there are more ghost stories out there but I am going to look into other legends of the Blue Ridge Mountains.  There are a lot of wonderful folk tales about famous people and about regular people attempting to better understand their mountain life.

A lot of them are humorous.  I especially like this Preacher Tale that I got from Blue Ridge Folklife by Ted Olson.

It seems there was a church that was separated from the people by a patch of woods.  There was a road that went around the woods to the church and there was a path through the woods that went directly to the church.

The pastor and a deacon were having supper at the deacon's house and were getting ready to go to church for an evening service.

The deacon remarked that the woods were full of bears so he was going to take the road.  The pastor said the Lord would protect his people that do His will, which is what they had been preaching all week.

He finally showed up at the church all torn up and got up to the pulpit and told the congregation that the Lord will protect you if you are doing His will but he ain't worth a damn in a bear fight.

Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

The next Blue Ridge Discovery Event is this Saturday!  Don't miss out on this great activity!

BRDC Day at Independence Farmers Market

Fri, May 30, 9:30am – 12:30pm

Where	Intersection of 21 and 58, Independence, VA map
Calendar	BRDC Web Calendar
Created by	scott@blueridgediscoverycenter.org
Description	Kids programs will be provided on site.

Another Staunton Ghost Story near The Blue Ridge Parkway and Put it on the Floor...

My Artwork

A Pair    Original Oil Painting has been Sold

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This is my most colorful still life.  I am very pleased with the vibrant color contrast!

Across the Marsh at Pawleys Island    Original 30"x40"  Oil Painting     $2425

Prints on Paper or Canvas Available at     KENDALL KESSLER ART

Another Colorful Shore Scene!  I am planning to do more soon!

Staunton Ghost Story

Staunton is located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley about ten miles from The Blue Ridge Parkway.  It is a town rich in history and some of it is supernatural.  Among the haunts are a 1890 train wreck , civil war stories and unsolved murders.

At the train station Myrtle Knox was fatally wounded when the sleeper car derailed.  Her opera troupe was napping when the incident occurred.  She lost  one of her legs below the knee, her shoulder was dislocated, an arm broken, and a piece of wood severed the femoral artery in her leg causing her to bleed to death.

Supposedly her spirit haunts the tracks and people have reported seeing her peer into the Pullman Diner which is now closed.

I found this story on One Writer's Way online.

Life with The Word and Bird Man - Clyde Kessler

I spend a lot of time in front of the kitchen sink washing dishes.  We are one of the extremely few houses in America that does not have a dishwasher.

 I really don't mind.  I grew up with one and we had to thoroughly clean the dishes, load the dishwasher and then put the dishes away.

I wash the dishes and put them in the rack.  End of story.  I like it better that way but sometimes I do complain about how much time I spend at the sink.

My husband said why don't you just lay the food out on the floor and yell come and get it!
Not a bad idea!  Then I would only have to mop a little!  Another great "modest proposal from the Word Man!

Another Blacksburg Ghost Story near The Blue RIdge Parkway and Recent Radford City Bird Sightings

My Artwork

 

Ghost Store   Original 12"x 9" Mixed Media Drawing    $221.00

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Ghost Store is an abandoned building in a beautiful environment.  I am a big fan of the movie, "Fried Green Tomatoes" and this drawing reminds me of those stores of long ago.  I love to look at buildings from the past.  There is an eerie ghostly quality about them that draws the viewer in.

I am especially pleased with the stunning light effect in this drawing. The light seems to be spotlighting the old building. This drawing was done with colored pencils and pastels.

Blacksburg Lyric Theater Ghost Story

Originally constructed in 1929 and opened on April 17, 1930, the Lyric Theatre is a blend of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, designed by Roanoke architect Louis Phillipe Smithey. Most notable on the Lyric’s façade are the traditional Comedy and Tragedy masks.

1994-From 1989 to 1994, although closed as a film house, the Lyric continued to have a life as a large classroom rented to Virginia Tech and as the Democratic Party Headquarters each fall.

1994-1995 -In 1994, a group of citizens lead by the Downtown Merchants of Blacksburg banded together to create the Lyric Council, which was determined to reopen the Lyric and return it to its former glory. In February 1996, the Lyric was reopened for the first time in eight years. The theater was operated as a partially renovated space for two years while money was being raised for the full-scale renovations.

The theater is one of the few theaters left with an upper balcony and workers have reported hearing things and the feeling of someone brushing behind them as they walked by.  There is a tale of a worker dying there years ago.

I got the ghost story  information from The Ghost Hunter Store online. The information about the Lyric Theater is from The Lyric Theater website.

Dock, Pandapas Pond Giles County           Original 30"x40" Oil Painting   $2425.00

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Path Near Pandapas Pond Giles County     Original Oil Painting has been Sold

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Life with The Bird and Word Man - Clyde Kessler

This time of the year my naturalist husband pays close attention to bird sitings and told me yesterday that the following birds have returned for the nesting season in Radford Virginia.  He is always out there keeping tabs on what's up in our area and in various sites on The Blue Ridge Parkway and other local sites. 

He is still in the process of uploading over 2000 files of sightings to e-Bird at Cornell University.

Saturdays Nature Walk at Wildwood Park was a great success!  A good crowd came out for this pilot program and my husband and Nancy Kent are looking forward to more of these fun and instructive hikes in the future!

 

Yellow-throated Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Cliff Swallow, there were several Cliff Swallows repairing last year’s nests on Memorial Bridge.