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...
View ArticleEastern 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...
View ArticleStill 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...
View ArticleProvincetown, 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...
View ArticleCape 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...
View ArticleBoston (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...
View ArticleTruck 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...
View ArticleCampobello 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...
View ArticleMt. 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...
View ArticleTurning 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...
View ArticleNelson-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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleNews 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...
View ArticleNews 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...
View ArticleWinter 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...
View ArticleSedona 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...
View ArticleStill 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...
View ArticleFINALLY...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...
View ArticleStopover....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....
View ArticleNevada 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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