eye see you

Isn't this wild and creative? A girl I met at the barbeque last week had the most extraordinary eye make up. She experiments daily with a new look. This one took about 25 minutes . I don't know if you can tell but her lower lashes have green mascara and uppers have blue! I HAD to take a picture and share it with you.

Great way to spend a day

This Monday on Victoria Day, I took my daughter and Daina, to this place.

A trailhead near Prospect. With such amazing stunted and resilient trees

overlooking this

and this...

on our way to to these.....

and these...and planked salmon, pulled pork, hot dogs and hamburgers and salads galore. The traditional Victoria Day barbeque.

Hosted by chef extraordinaire Jenna and look what she made for Daina's birthday! A giant cupcake cake!
We proceeded to have much fun and laughter. There were a lot of people but you would never know from my pictures:)

And we ended the day down by the water. Ahhhh, first campfire of the season

Waiting for sunshine

Spring is desperately trying. It will not be stopped. I was listening to the weather forecaster the other day and she was saying that the amount of rain we have had is typical for May (23 days or so). What has been atypical and what makes it seem like we've had much more is the lack of sun. Ususally 26 days of sun in May. We've had 7 or 6!! I've been taking extra vitamin D for my sunshine. Friday it is supposed to be sunny, keep your fingers crossed:)

Sailing, sailing...

Sunset Sail... 8 x 10 available on eBay. PRINT available here.

More Mahone....

Isn't this a great idea. Saw it in Mahone Bay. No reason for those of you with only balconies not to have fresh salad greens. So last time I left you, we were just about to have lunch. Well, here it is, we had avocado melts! So good.

We had popped in to Mahone Bay to check out Trilogy Gallery, another place I have a few paintings. I noticed that they had an American flag flying outside. How strange I thought, why no Canadian flag too?

I soon noticed other other odd things too. Different newspapers.

A new Dairy Bar sign

And then... some of Haven's finest. Yes, Mahone Bay had been transformed into the spooky and beautiful American town of Haven for the day. So cool to see:) ( you can watch it here)

We carried on our way and had a fun poke about the town. It is such a lovely place to walk around and lots of cool wee shops to visit. These are the three famous churches all side by side. You can just barely see the third one on the right.

So wonderful to see Spring busting out all over.

By the time we came back, look what greeted us! The crew had changed locations and cleared the side street of cars except for one. Can you guess whose car it was and how relieved they were to see us? lol.



PS. Hi Susan!!! Lovely to meet you:) Mlou you too.

Beautiful day

Hooray! The sun was out yesterday and it was wonderful!Perfect day to drive to Lunenburg to drop off some work. Here are some of my paintings on the wall at Witherstone Gallery. Right next to Daina's lovely surf art.

There will be a meet and greet with the artists here next Saturday, May 28 from 1-5. I love the ecelectic mix of goodies in this shop.

And then we went to Mahone Bay for lunch! It was heaven. I'll post about that later:)

Summer Dreams...

I love this new painting.... 11 x 14. Summer Dreams. Headed to the Witherstone Gallery in Lunenburg.

Catch up day

Halifax Public Gardens in May.......at least things are getting green despite no sunlight. Hope to see some on Thursday for the day, fingers crossed:) and then rain again. Thankful we are not getting the flooding like some areas, wild fires raging out of control and tornadoes, so just rain rain is fine. Actually it looks soft and pretty out there with the fog just now.
Home today and facing a neglected house that needs a full frontal atttack and a lovely painting that needs finishing. I really like this painting. Will show you as soon as it is finished:)

Monday~

Here's a real Maritimey scene! Finished this last week. Just a small one 8 x 10. Not sure where the original will sell yet. I'm selling prints of it at the market.

"Holy Soggy Toast Batman!" It is still raining. Remarkable really. I don't think I've ever lived through such a long string of grey and wet days. Feeling bad for the farmers. Grateful that we are not in danger of the terrible flooding some places are experiencing and in others, drought and raging fires. Tumultuous times.

I'm at the Market again today. Should be a really quiet one. The Market has to be open every time a cruise ship arrives as part of it's lease with the Halifax Seaport. I am lucky because I can work away with my paints, almost like a studio away from home. Last week I met some folk from Colorado and South Carolina. The ship docks at 8 and is off by 4 so the passengers only have a few hours to visit the city or go on tours. Most of them dawdle through the building on their way back, just before the boat leaves. Wish it was a nicer day for them, hope they brought their rubber boots.

PS. Happy Birthday to a lovely friend of mine!

cat nap

Monty, sound asleep! Really!! He was lying in front of a heater and my daughter pulled him onto her lap and then slowly laid back. He stayed there. It was so funny! Here is another angle, you can see the contentment on his face. Silly cat!