Saville Gallery Reception

The Reception for the Member's Show at the Saville Gallery in Cumberland Maryland was held Saturday night.    I was thrilled to be able to take my grandson, Erik, to it.   We had a wonderful evening looking at the art, visiting with art friends and snacking .   Here we are in with "Copper Beech"

Saville Gallery

The Allegany Arts Council hosts an annual member's show.   This is a juried show which had over 190 entries and took in 50.   I was fortunate to have a monotype of mine accepted into the show.  I always consider it an honor and privilege to hang my work at the Saville.  

Winter Corn

When the storm (Sandy) hit, most of the local farmers had not yet harvested their feed corn.   I was struck by the color of the drying corn against the snowy landscape.    It isn't a scene we usually see around here.     The corn is usually harvested before the first big snowfall.   Not this year.   We got 36 inches of snow to serve as a background for the corn.   I had to paint it.

Back to the Studio

We have spent most of the last 12 days coping with and recovering from the storm.   Today some friends came to help chain saw and clear the yard a so we can get around.   We are grateful to them for their kindness and help.
Life is beginning to be "normal" for us which means that I have actually been able to get into the studio to do some painting.  It seems like forever since I have had the time to actually execute a piece.    I so enjoy the process of getting an idea, doing the drawing, transfering the idea to the watercolor paper and finally getting to actually paint.  
I did this one the other day. It is certainly a "suearnson" landscape.

And so it goes. . . . .

Weather comes, we deal with what it brings and life goes on. . . . .thankfully.    The storm hit Monday evening, the 29th of Oct.    At one point it was snowing 3 inches an hour and then the thunder snow started.   We could hear trees falling and branches popping.  When dawn came we had 29 inches of snow, 15 trees down in our yard but we still had power.    That went out Tuesday evening as a branch came tumbling down tearing the wire out of the house.   
We are very lucky because we have water (the spring in our basement), heat (coal furnace) and can cook on the grill on the deck.   AND  there was power in the guest house , but no water.    We kept the home fires burning in our house during the day, cooked dinner and ate here and then went up to the guest house to read in the light and sleep in the warm.   
They were able to hook up our power Saturday night.    We are 'back to normal". 
We have a lot of snow, getting to fallen trees isn't happening.   Alan and I have been working on clearing up the huge hemlock that fell across the driveway.  
And life goes on.      I am back in the studio painting, Alan is at work and we are really grateful to the friends (from all over the country) who kept in touch with us.    Thank you.

View across our yard Tuesday Oct. 30

 

View from house to studio Tues. Oct. 30.