A Fine House

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Growing up in a town full of Victorian Era houses I have always been in love with them. I grew up in a cape cod house. This has been the most unreal year in my life. The only thing that is making any sense to me is what I wrote about in the beginning of the year. That little girl in the first post, her dreams are coming true. Last Christmas my friend and I went to Cape May. I took about a dozen pictures of Victorian houses and wanted to paint them. I was so happy to actually follow through with this thought. Now, I am living in an apartment in a Victorian House. Every window has an ocean view. I wished for that my whole life. I thought about at one time (especially last year) just renting a place for a week to have such a view. So, yesterday I had a day off. I was asked to work every week until January in Pennsylvania. So, I started getting my laundry done, cards sent and I realized how much time has gone by, since I have been here. So, I got to work on not only being inspired by where I am living. But, documenting it with photographs. Then I spent a couple of hours with my son. And, he always inspires me with all of the creating and playing of music. I had a great drink for the adult four year old me.....a bourbon slushie! It was an adult shirly temple but frozen! So good! The music was a twenties three piece band. They had framed vintage paintings on the cieling. So, I was happy to get home and get a little watercoloring done. I am painting them on postcard paper, so I won't have a pile of paintings. They can be used to write on and mail! So, I hope to get to wrapping presents today and getting some more little paintings done. Then for twenty twenty two 2022, I hope to hold up little paintings to the houses I photographed. I hope to do that with my sunrise pictures, also. I can't believe one third of my time here is done, already! Quote of the day: The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age. Robert Gottlieb Song of the day: I share this video as I can't find a perfect song yet. So, I think I will share this video of "The Victorian Couple" and the song of the day is: Our House by Crosby Stills and Nash Written by Graham Nash for the time he lived with Joni Mitchell for a couple of years

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