There is a station for the electric train here. It used to be a working train but is now just a tourist train. The other station is in East Troy. It looks like that's where we are going next week according to schedule.
Life is encroaching on my painting time so I went early. Luckily John is an early bird, all those years of getting up at 4am and now that he's retired he still get up early! I met up with him for the first time in months. It just got warm about 2 weeks ago. Before that it was still cold and none of the trees had leaves. He now has a blue 2013 ford hybrid that his grand daughter who just learned to drive wants when he gets rid of it. His previous car was blue too. I think he likes blue. He'd like to see Kandisky exhibit at Milwaukee Art museum. He had an article/story published in Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs "Across the Fence" November 2013 Edition. http://www.wfscstamps.org/ATFP/ I couldn't find it but maybe will look for it later. I remember him telling me the story, it was very interesting. He's collected quite a bit of information on this prison club. He found that you can download the information for $2 from the prison club site.
The orchard was very green and not that interesting to us that day so we set up to paint the station. John likes to paint buildings. I like to paint with company. It's a social, relaxing thing for me. If I end up with something fine. If not, that's fine too. I used pastels which means I hang them by taping them on the wall till they fall down, then put them in the pile on top of the cupboard, and when the pile reaches the ceiling I give it all to my sister to do whatever she wants with them. I take photos of them. Can't keep everything. My house is too small.
Donna and Vivien didn't come as they were at the Beloit Plein Air. http://www.friendsofriverfront.com/plein-air . Good luck guys!
I got a call about 8:30 from Carol and Terry, "Where are you guys?" They parked where you go into the store. I'd like to go into the store as I hear they have cherry juice but I'm always running late so haven't made it inside yet. Anyway I walked across the parking lot and waved at them so they could see us. I like to park at the far end of the parking lot so we don't disturb their business. It is a big parking lot probably to accommodate the tourists who ride the electric train. John has taken his grandkids on it.
It was a good painting day. I didn't need my flannel shirt and just wore my t-shirt. I think it's almost time to put the flannel shirts away for southern Wisconsin and just wear cotton long sleeve shirts. I like to wear long shirts and paints along with a wide brim hat. I think it's not as hot as when the sun is beating down on you and it helps protect from the bugs though none are really out here now. Right now the little black flies and ticks are out in full force in Northern Wisconsin. I'll probably keep out one flannel shirt when I go to northern Wisconsin because sometimes the nights are cold. July not so much, but in August it tends to get down to 50 F or lower. My husband wants to retire up there.
Time to go. Life enroaching.
Some painting setups:
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