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This is the map that indicates my location in the Cedar Pointe Plaza across from Southridge mall. If you intend to travel to the more distant parts of the city to see some of the other great work, make sure you get the corrected map from the SCARF website at http://www.scarf.ca/ and click on Tour. Although the printed directions are correct, the map was a little misleading and the corrections are posted on the site.

Come on out, rain or shine, and see some really great art… of all sorts.

This is a re-post. Got too frustrating trying to repair the photo gallery after we changed hosting sites.

Recently visited Meldrum Bay for a few days of shooting the spring poppies. There is a fairly large bed of them that frame some of the historic buildings really nicely. Also made it out to the Mississagi Lighthouse (about 30 kms. from Meldrum Bay) and that is where the road and Manitoullin Island end. I camped in The Point campground which is right on Meldrum Bay and right across the road from the Meldrum Bay Inn. The veranda is a really nice place to while away the summer hours sipping iced tea, swapping stories with the guests and locals… and especially with Shirin and her daughter Elena… they are the “front” staff of the establishment (husband Bob tends to the maintenance and other serious kitchen duties (along with other staff). One of the nicest things about spending time there was hearing Shirin’s ready laughter. It echoes out across the village and is absolutely lovely to hear. Thanks!

Meldrum Bay Inn and poppies

Dock shed and poppies

Wildflowers on barnboard

Headlands - Mississagi Straits

New breakwater for Meldrum Bay Harbour

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.