Yesterday,
we lost a dear friend. Ruby was a gentle spirit and resident beagle in our
Blake Lake neighborhood. And although she belonged to Ken and Bev, everyone on the
street knew Ruby. She loved to roam in the woods behind their house and the find
of a rogue chipmunk, squirrel or rabbit was met with a joyful round of howling. On
one of the first days after we moved into our new house, Ruby met me coming
around the corner from our kitchen. She had wandered into the open door and
made herself right at home. In time, she would come in the door, walk directly to
the kitchen and wait patiently for me to open the “treat” drawer. However, after
a diagnosis of a mass in her tummy this spring, Ruby didn’t make it through the
surgery yesterday, and Ken buried her last evening in her beloved woods. We
will deeply miss her.
My
husband, Paul, will celebrate his birthday this week and in honor of that occasion,
this week’s painting is one of his own photographs. One of our favorite things
to do is take roadtrips and follow the “blue roads” – those roads that veer off
main highways and roam through rural countryside. We have seen incredible
vistas and discovered so many wonderful places in these journeys. Row Boats
at Cornamona, 8.5”x12” Watercolor, came about on one such adventure. As
we came around the corner of this loch, we saw a group gathered near the boat
launch preparing to go out fishing for the day. Paul stopped the car, visited
with them for awhile and then took this picture of their boats.
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