Blue-sky day

Today turned out to be a  blue-sky day in Delaware County, but it started on the foggy side.  Foggy, but beautiful.  The bottom photo is almost devoid of color, but that is exactly the way the scene appeared - almost a study in grey.  A little while later, the color appeared.  If you look closely in the third picture from the bottom,  there are two horses out in that field.  We don't know who they belong to, actually, even though they are grazing on our land.  But that's OK.  We used to have Cecil's heifers over there until he sold all his cows. And then, for a time,  our pastures were empty. So the horses are welcome guests.  The picture second from the top  was taken inside my studio.   The light for painting today was wonky because, as shown in the top picture, the clouds swept across the sky and in front of the sun thereby changing the effect on the subjects of my paintings.  But I won't complain. Days like today are something of a gift.

hanging tough

OK, I have surrendered to facebook and started not one, but two pages - one personal and one for my work - but I am darned if I am going to give up this blog.  Not too many people read it, I know, but those who do (hello family) sometimes enjoy it.  So here are a few pictures from today's trip out to the area of Brooklyn around the Gowanus Canal.  I haven't taken pictures in a while because my camera broke, but now I have a snazzy new one and I must say it came in very handy. As you can see, there are all sorts of interesting things to shoot out there - strange sculptures, lovely old buildings, water towers, wheels and the most idiosyncratic of all, a funky little store selling "items", wedged into the side of a vast parking lot.  The picture at the top gives some idea of how pretty the canal actually is.  And how coincidental is it that the color of the bridge crossing it is exactly the same as the color of the bridges crossing the Canal St Martin in an equally edgy and eccentric quartier in Paris?