Tucked away in the North Georgia Mountains is Hiawassee. A nice little town with a beautiful lake, lake Chatuge, surrounded by the highest mountains in Georgia. There are plenty of good restaurants, shopping, high end lake homes, rental cabins…and…The Hiawassee Fruit Stand.
There are several fruit stands now, but this one is the original and the largest.
Here we have the flower division as I call it. It sits to the side of the main structure and this nice elderly woman keeps it tidy. Or at least she was on this day. I can only assume it’s her job to do so.
Could be she just likes flowers, is an organization freak, and didn’t like the way the owners were keeping things. So she set about to fix it.
Things work that way in Hiawassee.
I watched her working for a while, moving flats here and there. She finally got a bit weary and sat down to rest amidst the Gerber Daisys, Dusty Millers, and tons of other flowers and plants I couldn’t name.
Her back to me, and still…I thought she made a fitting subject for a sketch…sitting there surrounded by flowers . She looked content enough to sit there the rest of the day.
Things work that way in Hiawassee too.
Pencil and watercolor. 3–1/2” x 5–1/2”. 30 minutes.
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