Archive for September 2013
the color of September #1 – squash on the vine
A visit to a friend’s garden and a look at the riot of squash growing in her compost heap has helped me transition from August summer to the pre-autumn days of September. I love the color orange, but I did not know how much fun it would be to try and capture the orange of the squash in watercolor. I hope you like my trio of September squash-on-the-vine paintings.
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August 30, 2013 ‘squash on the vine #1’ Jane Tims
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August 30, 2013 ‘squash on the vine #2’ Jane Tims
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August 31, 2013 ‘squash on the vine #3’ Jane Tims
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haying time 7-20
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hay bales in a field along the Cornwall coast (image from Street View)
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map showing distance travelled (map from Google Earth)
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In New Brunswick, a common sight is of hayfields with their bales of hay …
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hay bales in New Brunswick
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Haying and hay bales are also a common sight along the Cornwall coast …
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a farmer works at his trailer of hay near Trenarren (image from Street View)
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So, today’s virtual biking trip felt a little like biking at home …
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bales of hay along Cornwall coast (image from Street View)
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Best View: round hay bales along the Cornwall coast …
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Aug 18, 2013 ‘haybales near Trenarren’ Jane Tims
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sailboats and tall ships 7-19
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tall ships in harbour at Charlestown (image from Street View)
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map showing distance travelled (map from Google Earth)
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My trip on the 19th day of my virtual journey through Cornwall took me along the Porthpean Beach Road. The houses along the road came in many architectural styles. One, a stone house, made a charming roofline over the hedges around it …
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stone house with hedges and vined walls (image from Street View)
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Others were like stone fortresses, with walls and gates and history …
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walled house on Porthpean Beach Road (image from Street View)
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My favorite house, of white-washed stone, was in Porthpean, with the ocean in sight …
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house with a green door, in Porthpean (image from Street View)
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Best View: sailboats in dock at Porthpean Beach … I did two versions of this. #1 is my favorite, but I painted the scene too literally and made the masts of the boats curved (as they appear in the Street View camera lens)! I corrected this in #2, but I don’t like the colors as well …
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August 5, 2013 ‘Porthpean Beach #1’ Jane Tims
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August 7, 2013 ‘Porthpean Beach #2’ Jane Tims
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