Garden by the Sea; Summer Afternoon

8"x10" oil on Belgian linen mounted on archival panel (Raymar)


"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
- Joseph Campbell

We took a family trip over to Harkness Park to enjoy the afternoon; lawn chairs, novels, & me with the painting gear. It's a beautiful way to spend a gorgeous summer afternoon, here in coastal CT. Our daughters go back to Tallahassee on Monday and clean out their college apartment. It's been so much fun to have this time to visit, and take a nice break in the summer. Harkness Park here on the CT coastline was so beautiful this afternoon, and was filled with people. A wedding was going on as well. The gardens are reaching their peak bloom times - and this year is incredibly beautiful with all the rain we've had. We always enjoy our visits to this place any time during the year, but summer is especially sweet. This afternoon the sun was coming over the garden wall and lighting up parts of the opposite stone wall. Catmint, climbing roses, and many other plantings grace the grounds of this area. It is always a treat to go paint there.

Tomorrow we'll have a little more time to visit with 'the girls' before we take them back to the airport. They are at that next turning point in life, turning from college grads, looking for what life holds for them at the next point. Of course, there are many of these points in ones life, each one an exciting point along the journey.

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