Vassmer's Road, Winter
Vassmer's Road, Winter, originally uploaded by Cathy (Kate) Johnson.
This was my demo for the last Art Crawl at Old English Garden Shoppe (http://englishgarden.com) on Friday evening. I tweaked it and finished it at home--notes are on the image in Flickr, so if you're interested, just click on this image and it will take you there!
This is one of the places I return to again and again, winter and summer. I love the views from these hills, and I have many wonderful memories of our years on the farm.
Here is the first journal entry that included the old dairy where I used to buy my milk:
And this is the same old windblown cedar you see at left in the painting above:
A closeup of the dairy buildings ended up on my recent slideshow on YouTube:
You'll see more of the earlier sketches and paintings of this wonderful place here:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qUmsSBHXs
Funny how things capture our imaginations, over and over. I can't wait to go back...