Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Lemme Tell You 8x6 oil

This Basketball lays dormant "About the House" against the wall in the shadows most of the time these days, but if it could talk it would have stories to tell.  Like I said yesterday shooting hoops is a fun thing to do around our house.  Most family parties there are kids of all ages trying their hand at hitting the hoop.  Even I have shot a few on occasion.  It has been a good activity.  
Lots of talk goes on here and our portable bond fire gets pull over and lit up for some late night conversation.
This same area hears the sounds of live music that melodically fills the garage and pours out onto the driveway and into our house and our neighbors windows.  Lucky for us we have had wonderful neighbors with there own history of drum playing.  THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I realize this is an odd subject, but it caught my eye and it fits the series.  It got a little muddy in the shadows and without the lines on the ball it could be an orange...hummmmm.  What can I say. 
Bob named this one and the spelling is his!!!!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Home Away From Home 6x6 oil

Looking through photos can be a trip down memory lane.  This is a painting of a home we stayed in on a family vacation while traveling through Germany 5 years ago.  The house belongs to some family friends not too far from their home in Augsburg.  Seeing the photo reminded me of a train trip from Munich back to this house.  It is extremely memorable in that we got off the train in the wrong town.  There was not another train that day at that station and we walked for 4 hours to get back to this house.  We were never so glad to see that cute arched doorway.  I must say that it was my oldest son, Eliot, that figured out that we got off the train too early and lead us home calm and collectively.  It was really a beautiful walk and after I got over feeling so stupid I really enjoyed it.  It was a time I will never forget because I realized that my son was grown up.  He left for college that fall and I knew he was ready.
We traveled together for 3 weeks that summer.  It is a trip I cherish.