Showing posts with label rhode island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhode island. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Newport Pictures and A Celebration

Hello my dear friends!! Thanks so much for your lovely comments on my last post!! Our weekend trip was fabulous! Despite the wind and cold temps the warm sun was shining all weekend which made Newport all the more beautiful!! We were blessed with great sunny weather! We always stay at a beach cottage that we love and waking up each morning to the sounds of the ocean is always amazing! Oh how I miss it already.

I will be sharing some photos in 2 parts since there are too many as usual! The ones here today were taken along Newport's famed "Cliff Walk". You can walk along the ocean for 3 miles and even see the mansions along the pathway!

This photo is from the top overlooking the edge of the cliff.

These are the "Forty Steps" at the start of the cliff walk. I didn't think I would make it back up! But me and my outta shape legs did just fine!

Lou and I took this photo at the bottom of the forty steps. Today is Lou's birthday so we will be relaxing at home, taking the pug to the walk trail and celebrating with some cupcakes later tonite! It is another sunny day here and I am grateful.

More photos to come! I have missed you all! I look forward to catching up and visiting your blogs soon!! :)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Daydreaming . . . A New Painting!

Daydreaming
mixed media on 6x8 canvas board

You may remember this photo from a wordless Wednesday post I did a couple of weeks ago. I had it laying around cut and ready to be scratched up but didn't get back to it until yesterday morning. The canvas board I used was an old painting I did last year that I didn't like. It was covered in molding paste so I sanded it down to get rid of the peaks and applied black gesso over it.

I titled it daydreaming because that is what it looks like to me . . . a place to go sit and dream away. This photo was taken in Rhode Island at one of my favorite places. Yesterday for Valentine's Day my hubby surprised me with a planned weekend away next month in RI at our favorite beach cottage. We haven't been away anywhere in a couple of years. I can hear the ocean calling me already!