Cottage visit

Back from the cottage! We took our friend Ray with us and had a wonderful time. Because of a busy weekend schedule and house stuff, this was our first visit up north since ice-out. It was somewhat muggy, but jumping in the lake always cooled us off. I love my morning swims up there...it's a wonderful way to start off the day.

Things have gotten way busier workwise these days, so I took some work with me: finished edits on my novel and completed five illustrations for a client. Sadly, the external modem that comes with my MacBook doesn't seem to work very well with the cottage phone line but happily, I didn't need to be online. Jeff says that when I do, I can always use his Airport connection via his laptop.

Also did a lot of reading, drawing for fun, snoozing, and wrote a short instrumental while playing around with Garageband 3 for the first time.

Here are some photos from the weekend...

Ray stayed in a tent during the visit:



Jeff went sailing:



Playing a board game in the boathouse:



And some photos from the cottage archives...

Wam and Jimmy Stringer:



Their brother, Omer Stringer, was famous for his paddling skills.

Dan Gibson and my father-in-law, many years ago:



As I wrote in my Blatherings back in March, Dan Gibson will be missed by many.

I also played around with Corel Painter some more. Here's one I call "Creepy Mad Guy":



I liked Scott Snyder's comment in Flickr: "Oh, I dunno - looks like me before I've had my coffee in the morning."

:-D

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