new faces

new faces

my granddaughter came to visit over thanksgiving and we went to greenville, sc to check out the museum there. they had a great collection of jasper johns work, which was so inspiring. we shopped at a little store that had old photos, slides, match books, and a lot of...
plein air during film festival

plein air during film festival

tryon international film festival was this past weekend, nov. 23/24. TPS (tryon painters and sculptors) set up four stations around town with canvases that had sketches of some of our town’s icons. jake and i volunteered to staff the one where morris the horse...
what have i been doing?

what have i been doing?

getting to better know my new town of tryon, nc and meet people here i have been involved in a few things. currently i am volunteering at the tryon history museum and at tryon painters and sculptors (TPS), which is a membership gallery/gift shop with classes and...
polk county history museum

polk county history museum

in an effort to get to know my new surroundings i volunteer at the polk county history museum. there i found, hidden in the back store room a leather bound photo album from the mid 1800s. reminding me of the velvet photo album. i could not help but wonder, who this...
we thought we would live in ireland

we thought we would live in ireland

it’s been a year since i have posted and a lot has happened. we sold our house in phoenix, planned on living in ireland, that did not work out, we came back to the states, lived in denver with my daughter for a few months and traveled across the country twice...