Emmi LeVasseur
14" x 18"

Emmy is portrayed standing in front of a typical Lowcountry marsh scene. She is indelibly connected to her environment. She is in love with life and lives it with tenacity and wonder.

Emmi/Emmy is just lovely. And so self-sufficient! If she had to till the fields herself, she would. Tonight there's company coming, new friends and old, and everything on the table will be local product, local produce, Emmi's special recipes, all of it as natural to her as the flowers outside her door. Her most familiar saying "Come see me! Come over on Saturday, bring your child, bring your mate, bring your dog he can romp outside while we eat on the veranda. Come see me." And who could say no? Django Reinhard gypsy jazz plays as she pours the wine, and as evening moves in Emmi glows like the last rays of the Southern sun, with the promise of tomorrow on her lips. R. Sue Dodea