Charlie Tenggren, The First Date (Art)

The First Date : Dressed to impress, passionate in nature, with silence as her best friend in the time of wait. Nervous tension runs through her soul requiring a special viticulturists reserve cellar treatment. The sound of swirling wine flowing like a summer breeze into the decanter, and the soft professional clink of the glass surfaces ever so lightly kissing. Breaking her concentration, does she change her focus by looking up? At first glance, he is well dressed, and hauntingly charismatic with eyes that pierce the soul. The light from behind showing features never before seen by her, anywhere. Almost invisible ephemeral bolts of lightning seem to spring from his feet as they touch the floor in his stride towards her. Being waited on gives back her sense of power and self-awareness, regardless of the aura starting to reach out and blend with hers like the shiraz grapevine along the trellis over a season. Watching, acting, playing in their pre-determined roles as suitor and prey, now, the enjoyment stretches long into the evening. The food is divine, the wine is strong, and the senses are vivid in their heightened state. What happens next, is anyone’s guess…

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