Call of the Blue Moon–At Principle Gallery, Alexandria
When the sun goes down here and darkness falls
The blanket of winter leaves no light at all
You search for shelter to calm the storm
Shaking with an instinct just to stay warm
I’d walk through the snow barefoot
If you’d open up your door
I’d walk through the snow barefoot
–Barefoot, k.d. lang and Bob Telson
I hadn’t heard this song, Barefoot, from k.d. lang in years. Just one of those songs that gets lost in the shuffle over the decades. Even the songs you love (as well as other meaningful things) sometimes get misplaced and forgotten. So, when it came up on a streaming service the other day on a quick trip to Erie PA, it was both like hearing it again for the first time as well as remembering it as I knew it thirty or so years ago.
But more than that, it immediately made me think of this painting, Call of the Blue Moon. In a show dedicated to the Red Tree now in its last days at the Principle Gallery, this large painting stands out without assistance from the Red Tree. For me, it has a feel of being pulled toward that large blue moon.
About finding warmth or meaning in a cold and sometimes indifferent world.
I could see the voice of this song in this painting.
That’s all I have this morning. Please try to get in to see the show and this painting at the Principle Gallery before it comes down later this week. And, of course, for this week’s Sunday Morning Music, here’s Barefoot from the great k.d. lang.
Redtree Times 
The way the song is performed, does, reflect what your painting showed, a little bit of, melancholy, but, there’s, that light in the, distance…a perfect pair!
I’d never heard this song. What a gem. Melancholy, to be sure, but not exactly sad, especially with those wonderful light instrumentals.