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Featured Artist: Christine Koch
By Polly Castor on August 10, 2019Read moreWe loved meeting Christine Koch in Woody Point, Newfoundland, and loved her printmaking and gouache paintings. I thought you'd...
22Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)
By Polly Castor on August 9, 2019Read moreIf you are interested in the food industry, or in publishing, or in memoirs about working lives rather then...
Camping Trip 2019 Summary Poem (and Route Map)
By Polly Castor on August 8, 2019Read moreThis poem and its map summarize a fabulous five week camping trip together with our daughter to eastern Canada.
Home Again Home Again Jiggety Jig
By Polly Castor on August 7, 2019Read moreSuch a wonderful trip, and such a nice home to come home to.
Day 37: Sunrises and Sunsets from the Trip
By Polly Castor on August 6, 2019Read moreWhile we drive the last leg home, I thought you could marvel at this collection of five weeks of...
Day 36: Visiting a Friend in Vermont on the Way Home
By Polly Castor on August 5, 2019Read moreA visit to a church friend, as well as the Cabot cheese factory, after a thunderstorm drive followed by...
Day 35: Miscellaneous Trip Photos
By Polly Castor on August 4, 2019Read moreSince we're driving homeward I thought I'm share some miscellaneous photos from the trip...
Day 34: Five Plein Air Paintings and a Necklace in Baxter
By Polly Castor on August 3, 2019Read moreWhile I painted these five pastel paintings, our daughter stitched together a complex necklace of seed beads.
Day 32: South Branch Pond (Reflections and Loons), Baxter State Park
By Polly Castor on August 1, 2019Read moreThis place is blissful, clean and clear, reflecting the changing light and full of wildlife. We loved it and...
Day 31: Eight Mile Beach Hike to See Seals
By Polly Castor on July 31, 2019Read moreIn Kouchibouguac National Park we hiked 8 miles of remote shoreline on the Northumberland Strait to see seals; here...
Day 30: Two Kouchibouguac Plein Air Paintings
By Polly Castor on July 30, 2019Read moreIt was fun to paint again, to try and capture a bit of this beautiful place.