On Vacation – Flew the coop

 

 Steven in Hudson Quebec

Molleskine paper and black marker

6 x 9 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012

We are on vacation in one of the most magical
places on the planet. It wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea,
but for us the combination of sun, sea, blue sky and white
clapboard houses against rolling fields, wide vistas, or dense spruce
 and pine forest – it ‘s ideal – idyllic.

Leftovers Hudson Quebec

Moleskine paper and black marker

9 x 6 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012

We’ve been at our schoolhouse near Pugwash, Nova Scotia
 since last Friday night, and already it feels like forever,
and like the blink of an eye.  That’s how the place tricks you. 
It’s slow and easy, the people so friendly , the days so long. 
And before you know it poof it’s over, and it’s back to the
 busyness and constant thrum of the city.

The Gulf Shore Beach today

I have learned some things since I arrived. Inspired
 by the lessons Melinda Easparza posted during her visit
to the Grand Canyon, here they are:

1.     Enjoy each day.

2.     Half a blueberry muffin from Grumpy’s bakery in

Oxford, N.S. (only the home of Canada’s blueberries, only

The most delicious muffins on the planet, will not make you fat.

3.     Long walks on the beach at any time on a good day are
       the answer to the major questions of life – why? And how?

4.     Long walks on the beach after sunset on a rainy day

are to be avoided – mosquitoes.

5.     Even a less than stellar book is great on vacation.

6.     I am addicted to the internet and talking to you, and I

have maybe half an hour of internet time per day – not

enough to keep up with all that you are doing. So I have to

back off. Forgive me for not responding, there is barely time

to post and read my email.

7.     I have two apple trees on my little acre of land.  They are crabapple

trees, and may make me want to paint.  But I am working on a

commission that’s almost done, so given our demanding schedule –

eating, walking on the beach, sleeping, eating, walking one the beach,

there may not be much time for other forms of painting.

8.     I love it here.  On a sunny day, (most days are sunny) I wonder

why I don’t live here full time.  All need falls away – stores seem

odd.  Breathing, and looking at the stars, and picking wild

raspberries, and buying raspberries from the woman up

the road who has a little garden fill my brain.  On a rainy

day I know I’d be lonely here – even with all of our lovely

friends.  On a rainy day I’m a city girl. Well we do have an
outhouse and it is scary crossing the lawn to the trees in
a thunder storm.

9.     Light is different from place to place, and here it is captivating.

10. I do miss you.  Have a lovely time.

Have a having a lovely time day.