My Husband and the New Pond Farm Harvest Dinner
I’m so grateful such a wonderful place as New Pond Farm exists, and I’m proud of all my husband’s hard work that helped make this supportive event a success!
Year: 2016
Ropes and Traps
These ropes and traps from Little Cranberry Island are a medley of line and anticipation. What are you walking past that would improve and expand on closer consideration?
Sunsets from the Islesford Dock
The sunsets as seen from the Islesford Dock are a kaleidoscope of beauty. Several times I interrupted my dinner to go and take yet again another photo of it as it morphed and transformed. Here are some of those shots…
Food at the Islesford Dock
They have built something wonderful here. They pampered us with spicy ginger brew, appetizers, and three delicious meals a day.
Islesford Workshop: The People and Their Work
It was fun to discover what we had in common, and to see the different approaches and styles to each one’s art. We all learned from each other, and the warm fellowship was certainly an added bonus to the class.
Henry Isaacs / Ashley Bryan Workshop Notes
A powerhouse group, their advice was gentle and encouraging, freeing and supportive, and blissfully without prescription. If I taught, this is the way I would teach.
Featured Artist: Ashley Bryan
I will never forget this man’s energy, love of color, excitement for the creative process, his great attitude, and how animated and lucid he is. His youthfulness at 93 is truly the greatest art of all.
Two Islesford Apple Trees I Painted
Since it was foggy during the workshop, I did not paint any grand vistas as I expected, but instead focused on these two unique apple trees, whose shapes intrigued me.
On My Way to Little Cranberry Island for a Painting Workshop
I was so delighted to squeeze in at the last minute to Henry Isaacs and Ashley Bryan’s last Painting Workshop. Their workshop is something I have always wanted to do,
My Invocation at our 9/11 Anniversary Service
Today I am giving the invocation for our 9/11 fifteenth anniversary memorial service sponsored by our local clergy association. This is what I am going to say:
Shackleton Quote
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Shackleton crew survival in Antarctica, here is his excerpt on the “fourth man”…the Christ…
Homegrown Vegetables
There have been lots of beans, broccoli, eggplant, pears, peppers, carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, cantaloupe, onions, and absolutely enormous butternut squash.
Amazing Tomato Harvest
Each season we lose more of our front yard to this project, but these photos show that it is worth it!
Spontaneously Abstract Campus Kiosk Art
There is great inspirational fodder here for collage artists, don’t you agree?
Movie Review: Kubo and the Two Strings
I don’t recommend seeing this film because the story line doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and I don’t share or agree with whatever world view they are depicting.
People at Creative Arts Camp 2016
The people is what I go to Creative Arts Camp for. I love the intersection between Christian Scientists and creative people, and I was there about twenty minutes my first time before I knew this would become an annual event for me.