This is on the wall of the Sienna Baptistry and the stripes are green and white marble.  It’s a small building, most notable for the fact that it houses the baptismal font with bronze reliefs.  (The one we go to see is Donatello’s “the Feast of Herod” which is the first known application of one point perspective.)

“And the mountains in reply…”  Merry Christmas to your house tonight.

A woman leans on the porch railing while a man nearby appears to be reading a newspaper.

Kind of reminded me a tiny bit of a two story version of a Giotto we have parsed together.

Jessica Marten went on to offer an interesting recap of the reviews of the works in those days, with some pointedly lamenting the rise of ab-ex, and others defending same. It was a most interesting afternoon at the museum.

From the end of the pier on Moosehorn Road, you can see the bridge at Frog Rapids. It looks like this:

It used to be a lovely steel truss bridge, but somebody ran into the trusses and the bridge had to replaced. I remember it like this, in the dotted lines:

If you are sitting on the pier and turn to your left, you can see across the bay to the old Sorenson place, which today looks like this:

There is a new house there now, and it looks like this:

And finally, the panorama from the dock. I did this, and then took some pictures the next day. Sketch first, then photo taken later.

Sketching is easier than using Photoshop, in my opinion.

you just draw with your finger and then “file” each drawing in a “notebook”…these are drawings of R and also quilt ideas…

Here’s a drawing of Alice Brown Powell in the Deepwood Scroll Garden, designed by Lord & Schryver for her.  This drawing will be in a show called “Parks for People: Lord & Schryver’s Legacy” in the Focus Gallery At Bush Barn Art Center March 8 – April 30th.