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Art Tidbits

Today we visited two art museums; one is the New Britain Museum of American Art and the other was the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Both of these museums had excellent, wide-ranging...

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Eastern Artists...Western Scenes

As we have been going through the numerous art museums over the last month, we have noticed that many artists who call the East Coast their home, sometimes travel out West and paint landscapes of a...

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Still Life ... Still Popular

Several weeks ago when we were in Washington D.C., I found a book in a used book store entitled Impressionist Still Life, A Phillips Collection. This book is a series of essays on many Impressionist...

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

Allan and I arrived in Cape Cod on Tuesday morning after a short journey from Mystic, Connecticut without any brake difficulties at all, what a relief to have that problem cleared up. Because the...

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Cape Cod Week

In the last few days we have been exploring the different villages of the Cape, which means driving along through vast tracts of pine and deciduous forest interspersed with homes and business sometimes...

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Boston (Chinese) Tea Party

We left Cape Cod on Wednesday and headed for Normandy Farms Campground Resort in Foxborough (or Foxboro, its spelled both ways around here), Massachusetts so that we would be close to a train line that...

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Truck Tires, Titles, & Tents

Two days ago while Allan was fueling up the truck, he noticed a bulge extending out of the side of one rear tire. It seemed like just the other day that we had gotten new tires for the truck but after...

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Campobello Island Plein Air

It has been almost two weeks ago that we left Massachusetts, traveled through Maine, and crossed the bridge at Lubec to enter Campobello Island at the tip of New Brunswick on the Bay of Fundy. We had...

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Mt. Desert Island

For the last week, Allan and I have been exploring the second most popular national park in the U.S. and it certainly has one thing in common with the most popular park (which is Yosemite... in case...

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Turning West

After leaving Acadia NP, we headed down the Maine coast to Camden where we had intended to stay at the State Park. We drove through pouring rain and arrived to find that we could not fit into our...

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO

Heading into Missouri, Allan realized that the truck brakes were not functioning as well as they should be, so when we got to Kansas City we checked into a KOA for three nights so that he could take...

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We Are Not In Kansas Anymore ToTo

Due to hints, suggestions, and outright soft pressure, I have returned to the blog for an update on what we have been up to since leaving Kansas City. With a short stay in Colorado Springs, we...

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News for November

This month was very sad. We had to say goodbye to our two dogs who were both very ill. Ned had cancer and was given 4 months to live, and Alice had kidney failure and had even less time. Our vet...

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News For December

It was a busy month in December and the new puppies really kept us hopping. We had forgotten how much mischief new puppies can get into, in a blink of an eye, but overall they are working out really...

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Winter 2012

The Sedona Show is coming up soon and Allan got one painting in the show (Blue Boat) and I got two this time (Aloe Bloom) and (Apache Trail, see previous post). We are planning to drive up to Sedona...

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Sedona 2012

Camelot RV Park, Old CottonwoodIt's that time of the year again for the pastel show held at the Sedona Arts Center. Allan and I arrived on Wednesday in Cottonwood, where we will be staying for the two...

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Still In Arizona

We are getting close to leaving for the summer and both of us are looking forward to being close to the ocean once again.  Our room addition is partly the reason for our late start and we are currently...

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FINALLY...A WEB PAGE FOR THE FREYS ART

While we are waiting to take off on Friday, I decided to get busy and sign up for a web site to showcase our art.  We had already admired the web page that our pastel friend Karen Budan had acquired...

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Stopover....Las Vegas

Usually when we head towards the northwest, we plan to stop in Las Vegas for a couple of nights just to settle in to the new routine and rest up after the long seven hour journey from Apache Junction....

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Nevada to Oregon

Driving North towards Wells, NevadaWe took a new road from Las Vegas up the back side of Nevada to Ely where we spent the night at the Prospector Casino which had about 20 spaces for $15 a night.  The...

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