A Perfect Autumn: Yellow Ferns, Red Oaks and Maples, and Many Boats in Maine

This September was a perfect month in Maine and the ferns turned yellow and the oaks turned yellow and red instead of the normal brown and the maples are iridescent this year.  I am fortunate enough to have spent 6 days near and in Acadia National Park while Michael Chesley Johnson was teaching plein air painting for the 8th time for Acadia Workshop Center.  He had a great group of 7 hard working students while I entertained myself taking photos!

Red, red maples!

Red Oaks and Gray Rock

Yellow Ferns

Celtic Cross of Red Maple Leaves on Gravel

Wooden Boat Skeleton on Land

Lobster Traps and Lobster Boats

Now I am in a studio apartment in a converted barn overlooking Mount Monadnock, a mountain with a lot of history, including a plein air painter...  Lucky me!  Michael is teaching for:  Monadnock Area Artists Association.http://www.monadnockareaartists.org/

Next stop is Strasburg, VA on our way to Sedona, AZ...where Michael will participate in the 10th Sedona Plein Air Festival...(It is his 7th or 8th time to participate....we lost track!) 

A Vacation Day on the Blue Ferry...Blue, Blue and More Blue!

My siblings and my nieces and nephews were visiting my parents this week and we got a chance to take a ferry boat ride to Eastport.  Mondays is our free day from our other obligations but unfortunately nearly all the galleries and the museum in Eastport were closed.  We still had a nice ferry ride and lunch.  We still plan to open our new Gallery in Lubec on July 24th.  http://artistsretreatmaine.com/   I will be bringing my work into the Gallery in the next few days.

Campobello Island Ferry 2 views

Land and Sea

Boats and More Boats!

I took a break from the renovation of  http://artistsretreatstudiosandgallery.blogspot.com which is winding down and preparing for the http://pleinairfundy.org/ evening event to take my friend Brian out to see Head Harbour Lighthouse (East Quoddy) and the working wharf at Head Harbour.  We took lots of photographs and I will be featuring them in my kaleidoscopes for several weeks!

boat in the "trees"

turquoise boat with water reflections

red and white boats

2 blue boats

Lobster traps being stored on floating platforms in Head Harbour

The boat colors and the water reflections were amazing.