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64 years old… back to school! Just returning from five days at Niagara School of Imaging (NSI) http://www.niagaraschool.com/ . What a blast! Traveling through the fruit belt of Ontario brought back so many memories from my youth when I spent part of a summer picking fruit in the Vineland and Jordan Station area about fifty years ago. NSI was awesome. I enrolled in Marilyn Sholin’s class http://www.marilynsholin.com/

Teacher acting goofy

for digital painting. Marilyn is one of only three dozen Corel Paining Masters in the world and she deserves to be there. All NSI classes are small (7 in our case) so you get all the attention you need. Now I have to unscramble my brain and start using what I learned. The hardest part is getting my head around the idea that paintings are a representation of reality (unless you’re my magnificent artist friend Cheryl Battistelli  http://cherylbattistelli.com/ who seems to know every whisker on a cat’s face… I’m sure she counts them Anyway, made some really nice friends and am looking forward to this new expression of my artistic talents.

If you’ve seen “The Bucket List” then you might relate better to some folks I’ve met this year. In May I was camping in Killarney and met Michal and Janine from Switzerland. They travel a lot and are presently on a five month cross Canada trip by car… then there’s the Italian couple I happened to meet today in Sudbury. They are traveling Montreal to Vancouver on a bicycle built for two, and hauling a trailer. It’s longer than a lot of smaller cars on the road these days. Their blog site is http://www.salitedelvco.it/blog01/ It is written in Italian, but just by looking at the pictures, you can tell these guys travel a lot. I think they must have been born on a bicycle. Cycling across Canada isn’t part of my personal Bucket List (I do have one) but I respect these folks for their undertakings. Welcome to Canada… enjoy.