SUSAN METZGER

Hermit Beach, Phippsburg, Maine

2011-11-07T07:29:00.001-05:00

A Walk in the Barrens

2011-10-23T17:11:00.003-04:00

Warren, Maine

2011-10-13T19:25:00.000-04:00

October Orchard

2011-10-13T19:18:00.000-04:00

Washington Pond

2011-10-09T20:44:00.000-04:00

Saltmarsh - Scarborough, Maine

2011-10-09T07:48:00.010-04:00

2011-09-28T19:13:00.000-04:00

2011-09-28T19:05:00.001-04:00

2011-09-22T17:49:00.001-04:00

Pleasant Cove

Boothbay, Maine

2011-09-05T20:06:00.003-04:00

click> A Fair Morning in Maine...

2011-08-14T18:38:00.008-04:00

SWEETGRASS

Running Out of Summer in Maine

2011-08-09T21:54:00.003-04:00

Video of Dove

Two family members passed on this summer...

while I may carry the sadness with me

I can also remember them at their best times

and their lights did shine.

DOVE

Rest in Peace

8/6/11

I am holding half an acre

Torn from the map of Michigan

And folded in this scrap of paper

Is the land I grew in

Think of every town you've lived in

Every room you lay your head

And what is it that you remember

Do you carry every sadness with you

Every hour your heart was broken

Every night the fear and darkness

Lay down with you

A man is walking on the highway

A woman stares out at the sea

And light is only now just breaking

So we carry every sadness with us

Every hour our hearts were broken

Every night the fear and darkness

Lay down with us

But I am holding half an acre

Torn from the map of Michigan

I am carrying this scrap of paper

That can crack the darkest sky wide open

Every burden taken from me

Every night my heart unfolding

My home

Lyrics to the DOVE Soundtrack 'Half Acre' by Dan Messe

2011-07-30T18:29:00.005-04:00

SkyeBoy

August 30th, 1998 - July 27th, 2011

Last May I wrote this.

In human terms, my dog SkyeBoy is 104 years old. He is standing only for about 15 minutes during any 24 hour period. This counting matters, as I measure him daily. Does he still want to be here? Is he having more good days than bad? It's hard for him to walk and he often falls down on his way to wherever he is trying to go. The snow is especially hard for him and he gets stuck there, but he patiently waits for me to come and free his legs and help him back inside.

He knows, by heart, that I will always come and find him - he is my homing beacon, and I am his. Just two months later, I started measuring the good minutes in mostly bad days. He was losing interest, I could tell. But he wasn't sick. He was simply showing me what aging looks like. Wherever I am at home, there he is sleeping beside me. Now I should write that in the past tense. He dreams, and I watch him - and in his dreams he runs. His legs move quickly, in rhythm, freely in motion, without the pain and stiffness of his waking state. I know where he's running to because we've been there together at some time or other, never apart. I think at night, when we sleep and dream, I think this time is the delicate and fragile edge or our place here on earth.

Scientists believe that the most interesting and new types of knowledge, things that you haven't seen before, are always found in regions which are at the edge of chaos. Places where clarity and confusion, order and disorder, intersect.

In nature, the ecotone plays the same role - this is the area of transition between two adjacent but differing environments - between a forest and a field, for instance, or a river and a wetland - these transitory edges are the most dynamic habitats for both plants and animals, home to a much greater diversity of species.

Between day and night - this is an area of transition for all of us bound here to the earth and its turning. SkyeBoy and I are both dreamers. Every evening, we have one foot out the door, the reality of our waking life fades away and recedes like an outgoing tide, and we free-fall to faraway places on the edge of consciousness, sometimes places of memory that are familiar and close, other times, to strange and unknown territory. I like to think we might bring back some souvenirs from these journeys, they may be tucked away and forgotten, but someday remembered, something to remind of us wonder, and our time here together.

Rest in peace SkyeBoy.

Classic Maine Farmhouse for Sale

2011-06-12T08:01:00.020-04:00

26th October, 2010

2010-10-27T19:16:00.002-04:00

I N S P I R A T I O N

2010-10-23T08:51:00.006-04:00

2009-12-17T17:31:00.000-05:00

RANGE

2009-12-17T17:14:00.004-05:00

BLUE RIDGE ARTIST MATERIALS

This is a company that makes handmade oil paints

in Asheville, NC. They are new to me but I am loving their

paints! They have a blog and a website and they

sell online as well as through The Italian Art Store - another

favorite. The only thing is, there are a LOT more colors listed

at the Italian Art Store - don't know why.......

2009-11-30T15:25:00.001-05:00

work in progress

2009-11-28T17:04:00.000-05:00

SANCTUARY + THANKSGIVING

2009-11-26T22:00:00.001-05:00

SANCTUARY - BREMEN, ME

2009-11-26T21:58:00.000-05:00

BASS FALLS

Alna, ME

2009-11-22T08:53:00.000-05:00

BASS FALLS - ALNA, ME

2009-11-18T17:43:00.000-05:00

2009-11-18T17:33:00.000-05:00

2009-11-17T17:02:00.000-05:00

2009-11-16T16:59:00.000-05:00

Moved to a new Studio in Rockland!

2009-11-10T18:55:00.000-05:00

"Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work."

Chuck Close

FIRE FIELD

2009-11-09T15:04:00.000-05:00

2009-11-04T18:39:00.000-05:00

I have just returned from two months away

at an Artist-in-Residence position at

Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Park

in Woodstock, Vermont. I kept a daily blog

while I was there - please check it out:

http://susanmetzgermbr.blogspot.com/

2009-11-04T16:39:00.000-05:00

FITCH'S COVE - TIDE IN

Oaks and Clear Water

2009-11-04T06:31:00.000-05:00

2009-07-13T18:41:00.000-04:00

Independence Day

2009-07-04T19:00:00.000-04:00

"Outer disarmament comes from inner disarmament. The only true guarantee of true peace lies within ourselves.".......Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

4th of July in Round Pond -

2009-07-04T18:17:00.000-04:00

2009-05-31T08:33:00.000-04:00

Coggins Hill

2008-11-30T11:02:00.000-05:00

Now Showing: 11/14 thru 12/5 Unity College, Unity, ME - Art & Sustainability Conference

2008-11-04T20:47:00.000-05:00

Now Showing: 11/15 thru 1/13 Kathryn Schultz Gallery - Cambridge, MA

2008-11-04T17:56:00.000-05:00

Ocean Park 10.27.08

2008-10-27T19:57:00.000-04:00

Dairy Queens

2008-10-24T21:49:00.000-04:00

What To Count On

2008-10-20T20:39:00.000-04:00

Backyard 2008

2008-10-20T20:26:00.000-04:00

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own".............Andy Warhol

GrandMom

2008-10-20T20:23:00.000-04:00

Mom - 1940's

2008-10-20T20:14:00.000-04:00