excellence and peace

Medium

Digital

Artist Notes

© 2010 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved A quiet night on a shimmering lake, twinkling stars, with a snow-capped peak and an old barn keeping watch; it brought to mind the opening lines of 'On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven', a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease! Reject me not into the world again. With you alone is excellence and peace... As for the music - what could be more harmoniously pleasing than the majestic melodies of nature?