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Annual Meeting Weekend 2025 (Highlights and Photos)
My favorite part of all this is the people, and I love seeing all of them, loving on dear friends and meeting new ones.
Grace Notes #59 (with Photos)
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good.
Guests at this Villa and Art Studio with Tuscan Views
We are so grateful for their magnanimous hospitality!
Pivoting our Trip in Florence at the Mercato Centrale
We got back to Florence with friends that we were parting with, and to meet up with friends we were spending the rest of our stay with.
Our Lodging and Art Studio in Chiusi
The art studio we worked in and the lodgings we stayed in were wonderful!
Christmas 2024 (Photos)
We had a low key holiday, so much so, that the above candle sufficed as our tree. Christmas Eve dinner we had at my sister-in-law’s (you can see our daughter with their daughter below). Then on Christmas, we opened presents in the late morning with our California daughter on zoom. The gifts I received were … Read more
Giving Tuesday: Biannual Request for Donations
Those of you new to this site may not know that it is crowd funded.
Visiting Blog Readers in Cambridge and Flying Home
We were also glad to invest in this wonderful budding friendship, as well as some others in London, which like so many things, including the reason for the trip to begin with, was facilitated by our presence online.
London Photos (Travel, Architecture, Friends and Family)
We are spending three days in London before renting a car and heading to more remote hiking in northern England.
PSME Plein Air Retreat 2024 (Photos and Recipe Links)
I look forward all year to the Pastel Society of Maine Plein Air Retreat, because these women are wonderful.
Student Work from a Recent Beginning Abstract Realism Class
I’m starting to think I should call these liberation classes.