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You
made this ancient stone
bridge an artistic
monument that I must
revisit. When I issued
Cobblestone Bridge
some years ago, this
celebration of life in
the Hampshire region of
England quickly became
the best loved of all my
village scenes.
As I considered
subjects for a Christmas
painting this year, my
thoughts turned to the
familiar charms of
southwestern England,
and I decided to return
to the scene of my
former inspiration. Not,
this time, on a ramble
with Nanette through
snowy English fields,
but simply through the
powers of mind and
imagination. I know this
stately old bridge well
enough to conjure it and
its environs when it
wears a mantle of white
and bears the wreaths of
Christmas.
Cobblestone
Christmas features a
bridge spanning a
free-flowing brook, a
church, a comfortable
inn - all constructed
with flat stones that
abound in the fields.
The thatched roofs,
built up from bundles of
reeds, are crowned with
snow; many are also
framed by strings of
twinkling lights.
Light spills from
the windows of every
home and suffuses into
the crisp winter air,
where it mingles with
the incandescent fires
of the setting sun. God
and man have truly
collaborated in a
celebration of the
season.
-Thomas Kinkade
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