Been away on a small holiday {and a few other small get-aways}, and while being home in between I have been working, packing, planning next trips and doing laundry... How is it possible for one to create so much laundry by being away??? Any how, back to our small holiday, it was Mr B's and my 20th anniversary, and this year we started our trip in Kingston and this was our view from our hotel room. I love the Mortelo towers and all the old historic buildings in Kingston, its a really lovely town during summer time. Wish I have had more time to sketch.After our stay in Kingston we drove east to Vermont, US {would you believe this, but this was my first time to cross the border, I still cant believe I waited this long to do this}.
We went to Stowe, Vermont and stayed at a absolute wonderful Inn, Green Mountain Inn. And the village of Stowe is so beautiful, all huge green mountains all wrapped around it and old buildings. And we had huge luck with the weather {only rained once and that was just after we finished a hike in the mountains}.
We went to Stowe, Vermont and stayed at a absolute wonderful Inn, Green Mountain Inn. And the village of Stowe is so beautiful, all huge green mountains all wrapped around it and old buildings. And we had huge luck with the weather {only rained once and that was just after we finished a hike in the mountains}.
This is a small water colour sketch from our trip by gondola to Cliff House, the view from there is totally breath taking and I wish we could have stayed there for a whole day and more.
Loved the ride in the gondola, it was nice to enjoy the view together {and we already have plans for our next hiking routs we want to do there next time, including hike up the mountain rather than ride it up}.
Another sketch of the village of Stowe and whats around there, again I wish I have had more time to do more sketching. The yellow funny looking things hanging from trees, are spoons, some kind of art. Kind of neat looking and very unexpected things to bump in too when you are walking along a small path. 
Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, but here is a closer view of one of the part in the village page. Its the view we had from our room at the Inn, love it, its so different from the one in Kingston. Both really beautiful in their own ways, and I also love it as this has almost a Scandinavian look to it with the bright red house with the white windows and frames.
I have so much I want share with you, but it would make a really long post and I didn't get that many sketches done {ton of pictures though, over 400 of them}. We had a wonderful time, and I cant wait to go back there and explore more of that region, the hiking trails and all the other places.
Then this last painting, is a sketch I started a few days ago while waiting for my dear son to get all his 4 wisdom teeth taken out. And I'm glad to say, he is doing really well and what a ride that was for him... Still is really, it takes a while to get back to normal after surgery like that. The sketch is of a really beautiful wall sculpture that is in the entrance way of the clinic where he had the surgery. So glad I saw it, it took my mind of what was going on while waiting. So its been interesting few weeks.
I wish to thank all of you for your comments from my last post, and I'm glad to say both Dan and Anna finally got their letters with the Blog Give-Away prices... That has been a bit tricky as we have had postal strike going on here for weeks, that's now over as of yesterday.
Happy Summer!!
Mari
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