Low Country Grass

One of the quaintest places in North Carolina is the small mountain town of Hendersonville. It is there that author Carl Sandburg lived and wrote his famous biography of Abraham Lincoln. His home a charming place that you can still visit and see the goats his wife raised on their little farm.

I completed this painting, and the tall grasses reminded me of Sandburg’s poems, “Grass” and “In Tall Grass”. Sandburg didn’t use flowery language in his poems, but his reference to grass is pretty interesting. He seems to convey the message that nature will continue as it will—the grasses will cover everything over time. “What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.”