Harvest Festival on Eastern Shore of Va.

Bayford,Va. ES Mini Landscape,8x10,$99

Some new little watercolors for the show.

The Newest Purple Moo/Bessie, 8x10,$99

Sadie eating Maple Leaves.

HI! I forgot my camera yesterday. Yesterday was the Harvest Festival on the Eastern Shore. It's always a big event. This year they did away with the BIG art tent and asked each of us to bring our own. Sooo.. I did. Thanks go to Willie Randall for unloading my car and Ed Kuhn and his wife Pat for helping me get the tent up. What blessings they were. When it was time to load up I had to do it all by myself.. with my back. I was so miserable last night and this morning.. it's getting better but that Sciatica is horrible.I"ve been sitting on a heating pack all day.

 However the day was sunny,warm, and a tiny breeze, food pretty good.. Being with my artist friends was a treat,
         1.- Ed Kuhn( carves beautiful fish and swans...) and his wife Pat,
         2.- Donna and Don Drew of Copper Creations--lovely copper art,
         3-Mama Girl( folk art, bright and bold!!),
         4-Billy Crockett( amazing miniature carver of birds) and his wife Laura,(murano jewelry),
         5- Glen Linton(carver and book author)
         6- Buck Doughty( metal sculpturer of wildlife--from old tractor parts)
         7,Lynn (jewelry),
         8- Dr. Vicki Koenig(carver and etcher of lucite blocks)..
 and so many more all wonderful artists.

I sold 2 little paintings, not much but there weren't many sales in any of us this year.. ah well. All we can do is keep creating.,right??Well I'm going to go sit on my heating pad! ha ha..

 love to each of you,Diana

 ps Sadie, the puppy, was so happy when I got home. She missed me but she did get to spend some time with John off and on during the day! :)

Tall Ships Festival Photos

HI, Yesterday was the Tall Ship Festival in Cape Charles. Lovely day,nice breeze, so many people came,I could smell the salt water. It was only 15 feet behind my booth. Pictured are my booth(I left the rack covers off to keep the breeze coming thru.. it did get hot later in the day.)Some of the ships,one coming in from a sail.Friend and artist, Albert Buck Doughty, he makes amazing metal works and my neighbor(booth) friends,Janet and Hayden and Vince and Dawn. All such nice people!! One sale but ah that's the way it goes sometimes.. lots of interest.. Have a restful,sunny weekend, talk soon,Diana

Zooming to the Vet!

Well I had an emergency today. J. woke me at 6:30am something was wrong with Daisy--(our Labrador) and sure enough when I saw her I knew she had a temperature. She was panting with a very hot nose and not a normal pant either.

So I took her temp and it was 103.9. A normal dog temperature is 101 so that wasn't good. I got a bucket with ice water and wiped her down. She was pitiful, the soulful look in her eyes.We had to do something. I ended up taking her to our vet again. All the way to Pocomoke,Md.to Dr. Johnson.It takes almost an hour to get there. But it was worth it. He gave her a shot, more antibiotics this time a z pack and something for arthritis and sore joints. I had planned to paint all day to finish this little commission but instead I'm zooming up the shore..the photo is of our return trip going across Shields Bridge.. a tiny bridge in Belle Haven,Va.

We did stop on the way home and got her a .99 burger-(-I got this idea from my friend Susan who drives her dog,Sam to the drive up window and orders him a vanilla ice cream cone and puts it in the cup holder for him. Sam is a sweetheart--Susan is too!) and now Daisy is snoring loudly on a blanket as I paint.

I've gotten a little painting done and stopped to post this. It's a landscape of Willis Wharf again. I've used some of Daniel Smith Lunar Black on the building. This has a granulation to it, which I love for texture on old wood. I'm looking forward to Meditation Class tonight at 6pm at The Bear and Cub Coffee Shop. I can use some tranquility..what a blessing Daisy is going to be ok... take care, talk soon,Diana

The Clam in the photo of my painting is a lovely work of art by Albert Buck Doughty. I bought this from him recently. He makes it by welding parts of old plows and machinery into these amazing works of art. Google him --I know he's on Facebook.. he's a great guy as well as artist!