Sunbathing

What a wonderful day out on Steve's boat with Lauren and John and I. The whales were awesome and huge and many and feeding, playing (two even coming straight at the boat and as they ran out of real estate dove under the boat as emerald green shadows) and breaching and blowing and burping. they were loud!! Thanks Steve for an awesome experience!!

Best Guy with the Best Seats

We are on the Champs Elysees - Paris, France - the last day of the Tour de France. Hooray for us We did not sit in the biege seats, those were actually across the street. We sat in the red chairs at a table right in front not 7 feet from the bikers whizzing by, the motorcycles and team cars driving by, the sponsors and all the hoopla going by in front of us while we ate and drank and made new friends with the Wongs and the Aussie Twins who knew so many of the Aussie bikers - being bikers themselves - who had rented a white camper van and followed the Tour for a week. all by themselves???

Orange Umbrellas

Here we are in Giverny France. I painted this scene on a sunny day with lots of people and lots of umbrellas when with Pat Fiorello in 2008. Painting was 4' by 3' one of the big ones. I loved the orange umbrellas and the blue chairs. It was rainy and cool when John and I visited this past July. this was my favorite place to eat or have a drink in Giverny. We ate across the small street in the restaurant (and had a drink) Spent the day there, taking the train from Paris and bus from Vernon. one of the best days in Paris among many best days.