Living Aboard

E. B. White wrote, "A small craft is not only beautiful; it is seductive and full of strange promise and a hint of trouble. It is without question the most compact and ingenious arrangement for living ever devised by the restless mind of humankind. A home that is stable without being stationary, shaped less like a box than a fish, or a girl, and in which a homeowner can remove her daily affairs as far from shore as she has the nerve to. Close hauled or running free - parlor, bedroom, and bath, suspended and alive."

New Painting - not quite finished

Racing Sloop - Bird Series

detail

Sunday sail in Howe Sound.. 

Two steps forward and one big one back

Started painting this sailboat on wood box board about two weeks ago.. It's been slow going... probably scraped and sanded it back at least 4 times. Tried a pecan stain for the ocean and sky, but it 'stained it in patches, so once again I'm going to sand all the background down again.  The boat is looking OK though, so that's good.  This next time I'll apply a urethane to the freshly sanded wood, then add the pecan to warm up the area around the sailboat.

Rosie's Aura

Took this of Rosie the other day on our walk.  Hard to tell what's making the water ripple with no sound to accompany the pic.  It's her breathing... she just finished a half hour of hard running and every breath created a ripple in the water.  

And this notice at the local gas station