This is a house on Swan’s Island, one of the islands near Mount Desert Island. We stayed with a dear friend on MDI and he has a motorboat. We loaded up 4 bicyles, his dog, and 6 of us on the motorboat and rode about an hour over to Swan’s Island. It was a fun

There is a beach area on Mount Desert Island called Wonderland. You access this rocky beach by hiking along a path through the woods for about 20 minutes. One day my family and I packed a picnic lunch and headed over there. Of course I brought my painting supplies. Hmph, this painting looks better when

One day when we were in Maine we went to the Jordan Pond House for popovers. We had been hearing about the fresh baked warm popovers for quite some time, so we had to go try them. They were delicious, though because they weren’t part of my favorite food group: chocolate, they don’t get the

We are back from a wonderful two weeks in Maine. We stayed with friends on Mount Desert Island and had such a nice time. One day five of us took the motorboat over to Little Cranberry Island, one of the many small islands near MDI. My daughter and I stayed on the island while the

On the Fourth of July I headed back down to the little dock on the Llano River and set up facing across the river at dusk. I waited, hoping for a pretty sunset and I got one! The sky was soooo beautiful, all those peaches and purples! This time I painted a little larger, this

For the Fourth of July my family and I went up to the Texas hill country. I had been looking forward to getting out in the hill country and painting for a couple of weeks, it hasn’t been as easy to find scenes to paint here in the big city of Houston. Because of Hurricane

This is a painting of the Bass Harbor Lighthouse on Mount Desert Island, Maine. I thought I should do some practicing of Maine landscapes since we’ll be there later this summer and I plan to paint up there. We were there a few years ago so I dug out some of my old photographs. Sorry

This afternoon I drove to the place I had planned to paint the other day, when I brought home the kitty instead. I drove 37 miles and set up next to a big field with haybales. I painted haybales last week from an old photograph and I really needed to get out there and paint