Serving Green Bananas for St Paddy's Day

After a three year hiatus from personal watercolors, by St. Paddy's day, (a green day near my birthday), I resumed. Folks at the barn were gathered for their after-lesson stories so the benches were full. It was a good time for me to go off with my Yarka watercolors and find some landscape to paint. The ground has been dry so I plunked myself down in my riding apparel and looked around. The banana flower pendulum is always a Floridian vision of delight. Seemed like a solid place to start.

 

After a warm breezey half hour, I was noticed by Matt, the manager of the barn. Because of my painting, he saw the ripe bananas on the very top of this floral pendulum which were otherwise shaded from view. So he called over Jerry, a trainer who can ride anything, to hop on the tractor to chop down the fruit. No matter what I was saying about removing my still-life, all they could think of was food.

Sweet though the Lady Finger Bananas were, I no longer had my still life. Country Boys are a force of nature!

They ate my still life.