Self portrait in a Quebec hotel
watercolour and black ink on watercolour paper
10 x 12 inches
Barbara Muir © 2011
Our heart's second home is in Nova Scotia in a little
school house without running water and outdoor bathroom
facility (outhouse). It is in essence a very beautifully built,
100 year old wooden tent near Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
We've been travelling for four days and here we are
having an anniversary lunch in the Chatterbox Café --
celebrating our first date (we've been together ever since),
and making it here safely. We drove through pretty
awesome rain from Quebec City to Fredericton, and
then again from Fredericton to Pugwash.
I've been trying to keep painting -- at the end of a long
day of travelling, I settle down for a few minutes to
get something down. I saw an exhibit in Fredericton
yesterday at the Beaverbrook art gallery of sketches
by Herzl Katshetsky -- some fabulous, some just
a jotting down. Mine today are like the notes
you take to write a story. Except that this is the
story, and they are the punctuation in the tale
of two happy hard working Torontonians escaping
to Eastern Canada. What a joyous thing to do. We
got out just as Toronto hit its highest record
temperatures making it more like what our friends
in Tucson live with every day in the hotter months.
It's been so cool here today I had to wear my coat
and needed a sweater down at the shore.
Paula's Flowers
(sketch)
Watercolour and coloured markers on watercolour paper
14 x 16 inches
Barbara Muir © 2011
(My friend Paula puts flowers out for
me so we'll arrive and feel
welcome.)
More images tomorrow. I am going to try and keep(My friend Paula puts flowers out for
me so we'll arrive and feel
welcome.)
going every day. We'll see. I won't be upset if I
don't succeed. Folks like us need a break from time
to time. Big time. Last night we sat rocking in the
very ugly garage sale rockers we bought for five
bucks each one Saturday, looked around the big,
virtually empty school house, and smiled huge grins
of absolute contentment. We are home away
from home.
Have a loving-your-time-off day.
