Bowl Full of Memories Painting by Doug Kreuger

Bowl Full of Memories

by Doug Kreuger

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Title

Bowl Full of Memories

Artist

Doug Kreuger

Medium

Painting - Digital Oil Painting

Description

"Bowl Full of Memories"
–Digital Oil Painting by Doug Kreuger

This painting depicts an heirloom bowl filled with Osage-oranges. Osage-oranges you ask? Perhaps you call them: Osage apples, Hedge apples, Horse apples, or Monkey fruit. —Unless, however, you are totally unfamiliar with these yellow-green things, which grow to the size of small grapefruit?

For me, Osage-oranges represent a connection to my childhood years when my brothers and I would find these large, rather odd-looking objects, laying on the ground, alongside county roads and farm fields. Because Osage-orange trees are too thorny to climb, we were mostly contented with picking them up off the ground. Although, If we were lucky, we might find some within our reach still hanging on the tree. Use of a stout stick could also provide us a source for challenging entertainment.

The size and weightiness of these strange-looking seed balls, convinced us they might have a desirable value… By lifting our shirts from the bottom, we could each tote 6-to-8 of them away—at least for a short distance. Stopping to rest, and lightening our load by 2 or 3, we would make our way home. Sometimes we would stash our treasure and go fetch our wagon. However, pulling a wagon through tall grass has its own difficulties. Once home, we were excited to show our mother what we had found. Mom always made-over them like they were something very special, Indeed, and rewarded us handsomely with fresh-baked cookies, or other sweet treats. (-:

A few of our most prized Osage-oranges were sometimes given a place of distinction in the middle of our kitchen table—replacing our rather ordinary-looking fake flowers. Continuing this tradition today (as of this writing), I presently have a bowl of Osage-oranges on my own kitchen table, where my grandchildren love to hear stories told about them,

• The common name is derived from the Osage Indians, native to eastern Texas, southeastern Oklahoma, and southwestern Arkansas

• They were once used as a livestock barriers, before barbed wire replaced this use, they are still found among farmland hedgerows

• Believed to possess insect and small rodent deterrent properties

• Fast growing, tolerates poor soils, extreme heat and strong winds

• Wood is extremely hard, dense, heavy and durable

• Used for making fence posts, fine furniture and prized archery bows

• Golden yellow-orange heartwood, used to extract natural, bright yellow dye

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