a quiet day

Found myself by myself today, odd.  It is amazing how alive your house can be one day and how quiet it can be the next, still, almost waiting for them to come home.  While I do miss them I have been using this time to work on some paintings for an upcoming show in October.  Here's a sneak peak. 

projects, always projects

the camera was working on vacation

We're back.  A great time had by all.  We swam, ran, ate & slept a lot, I think we call came back very aired out, which is all I ask from a family vacation.  I only brought 2 projects to work on,  one is a knitting project ( post later it's almost done!) and the other was my camera.  I finally had time, and such beautiful scenery to fiddle with it, move dials, get low down, try the same photo again and again.   I had some successes,  here are a few.   I hope to have more posts soon about all the folks we hung with wayyyy up there in the north woods.