"Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring."

Those were the words of John Constable, I realize that I had not displayed any of his marvelous "six-footers".

The "Leaping Horse" (1825) was one that stood out to me. It's just a simple scene of a river with a few understandable items within like a man in a boat and wildlife, but then there is a mounted man urging his horse over a low fence. It seems a bit out of place for a man on a horse to be there. I guess this is what Constable means by you must capture what you have at that exact momenent or it will be lost, " No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world."

To read more about John Constable and to view more of his work, visit http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/constable/.