September Song

Not That Long Ago - watercolor painting completed this week

School started this week, my boy is now in 7th grade.

 

Time sure flies! I'm always reminded of that this time of year.

 

Yesterday was our 21st anniversary and received a

gorgeous  bouquet of flowers

from my guy:)

 

I had a fun time looking through 

our wedding album with my son.

 

We did alot of laughing,

some of the photos seem funny now:)

 

Some things feel like they occured so long ago

and others feel like yesterday.

 

And then there are times when

I can't even remember yesterday, LOL!

 

Enjoy your weekend,

I'm planning on painting/drawing

that fabulous bouquet.

 Happy Saturday!

 

Good Ol' Smith Point Beach

 



Last Friday, I went with my sister and the kids to the beach. We met up with some of Jen's friends who had their camper at the park there. What a great day!

I tried to paint early in the day, however it was so windy. It was a struggle with the sand blowing in my paints.
And that was not making me happy, lol! I tried a few, this was my most successful

looking East, sunbathers and a small sleepy girl



 It was hot, 90 degrees, but so windy we got goosebumps later in the afternoon! The waves were not too big...small enough for moms not to worry but big enough for the 'big' 12 year old to body surf a bit and throw a ball around in:)

looking West





My earliest memories are of playing in the sand... right at the water's edge at this very beach. I love the sand there! When I got older my friends and I would hop on the bus for 50 cents and it would take us to good old Smith Point. It was such a long ride. In the car its about 20 minutes, but by bus it felt like it took forever. But for two quarters it was the best deal going for a 14 year-old! [The other direction took us to the mall....winter recreation.]



South, our Atlantic Ocean



the fencing along the raised pathway really took a beating this summer from the rain storms!

 

love this view of the water, took this from off the raise pathway...The south shore is gorgeous!

 

 I live on the north of the island so most of my water shots are typically of the LI Sound:

 

My son had sail camp this summer in the harbor on the Sound, so I was lucky enough to get my water fix every day for a few weeks:) The last week was exceptionally beautiful out and on those kinds of days any photo you take is fabulous!

.::facing northwest, Mosquito Cove::.

 .::Looking over at Sea Cliff Beach::.

.::great colors::.

.::a wide open sky::.

 

 I hope you liked my point of view and photos! Goodbye summer, until next year:)

Happy Wednesday,

 

End of August

Oh my, where has this summer gone! Tomorrow is the last day of August. I'm off to the ocean tomorrow and plan to do some painting while I'm at the beach. We'll see how that turns out, LOL. I've been very busy the past few weeks but getting some artwork in here and there.  I painted a few things while on my vacation this week.



this is an abstract that I am still working on , putting the finishing touches.

 

I got this great insect book out of the library and having some fun making up my
 own journal pages based on the information and the illustrations.




Random nonsense in blue

I have been procrastinating on posting...its been about 3 weeks :(. The last few times I've posted it's taken me a long time to upload my photos etc. I guess I need to post more often so that there are less images to post, huh? I'll get back on track soon, I promise and there be alot less time between posts.

We celebrated an anniversary and my husband sent me an amazing and gorgeous bouquet. One of the best ever! Two days after I got it I had left for a few days to my parents and I was afraid the bouquet would completely wilt while I was away but its still going strong!

 

 I painted this one today, a week later:

 

OK I was going to post more but this blogger is really annoying me now!

I hope to catch up on everyone's blogs this weekend and looking forward to browsing and catching up on everyone's posts.

Take care and happy end-of- summer!

Have a safe holiday weekend,

 

Summer Sunday

Oh jeesh its been hot here! What a weekend. Lots of indoor activities to get out of this heat!

testing out a new water brush

 Working on watercolors.

Watercolor journaling with some ink writing. Its a bit messy. That pen is tricky...

 I made some more stamps as well.

carving more erasers!

I am missing the index card challenge and routine of doing that. Lots of fun, that was!

Here are some of my last ones I made up the last days of July.

Have a great week!