Author Joyce Oroz: Library Mural part V

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Library Mural part V

The “Ladies of the mural” mysteriously reappeared at the Aromas library today for a repeat performance. The kiddies were gone. It was time for the painterly women to slather on more acrylic paint. They added trees and shrubs to the mountains and row-crops and a lone apricot tree to the lowlands. Sandra captured the essence of an apricot tree (the official Aromas tree because there used to be so many of them.) Linda plowed ahead in the strawberry patch and Kathy decorated the mountains. There were plenty of oohs and aahs as people passed by the artwork and funneled into the library. But it was all in a day’s work for our “Ladies of the mural.” Stay tuned for the next performance.

Thank you, AR, Fred and all the people sponsering the library mural.

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If you don't live in Aromas, California, you might not know about the Aromas Bridge that has recently been dressed up with 75 colorful fish--all swimming toward town. Each fish is 42 inches long and painted by a volunteer using five vibrant colors of acrylic mural paint. Our volunteer painters were all ages, 10 to 80 years old, with or without painting experience. They carefully designed their fish, and the results are magnificent. Three generations in my family had a good time painting fish. I watched a senior couple paint one fish with their granddaughter.

Now that our river is clean and the steelhead are back--75 colorful fish have joined the fun. This is the ninth mural to be organized and donated by the Aromas Hills Artisans.