Roof top Kitty

This evening, for Paint the Great South Bay, we were given access to a rooftop so we could paint. It was awesome and we had a whole new view to paint.

Here is my painting from this evening, with the clips on….

Here is the postcard print for my mom with kitty added…..kitty is a little hard to find.

Last Alive After Five of the summer

Tonight brings the summer to a sad close….yes, we still have a little over a week to Labor Day, but tonight was the final AA5 of the summer☹️.

This is also the week of Paint the Great South Bay. So far it has rained, I was swarmed by flies and bit by a yellow jacket. (Little bastard died for that one.)

I was out painting this evening and did this painting

And took a photo and turned it into a postcard for my mom (see if you can find kitty)

I had a rough week which led to a lot of this

Here is my set up and you can see how the painting came together….

More to come!

Kitty in coach class

My daughter was home for a week. On her travel day today, she received an email that her connecting flight was canceled.

Now her seat assignment was in question and she envisioned that she would be in this very situation flying home.

Fortunately, she was able to get an aisle seat and the flight home was smooth.

Kitty and the horseshoe crab

Recently I have been reminded of a creature that isn’t the prettiest but it is ancient and it’s mating season is a major contributor to the food chain, primarily, the red knot and other migratory birds.

We used to have a house near the Delaware Bay and our morning walks consisted of turning over exhausted crabs so they could return to the water.

They can’t hurt you and that spiny tail is for flipping them back over when the waves flip them upside down.

They are living dinosaurs. If you see one, please treat them as the treasure that they are, leave them be and please do not allow children to mistreat them.